Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception Baybay City Leyte Inc.

Baybay City Leyte

AY:2019-2020

The Use of Maps, Globes and Pictures in the Classroom

Name of the Student:

Vanessa Mae Xy-Za D. Labria

Instructor:

Mr. Jerome N. Tamaca

Headings
Teachers throughout history have been faced with the universal problem of the
effective presentation of the facts and ideas of their school subjects. Every field of study has its
own individual problems to solve in helping the students to comprehend the subject matter. In
the social studies, a major problem is to teach students an understanding of what is shown on
their books and often pass over the maps without a glance.

Map Reading versus Map Interpretation

Map Reading is what all of us do when we want to find out where a place is on
the map or the distance between places, or their relative positions or any other
simple geographical fact.

Map Interpretation is the process of reading between the lines of the story
whereby the reader draws certain inferences and conclusions which the author did
not specifically make.

One of the basis characteristics of map and globe information is that it is designed
to be absorbed into individual understanding over a long period of time through
the sustained use of maps and globes.

It is the ability to interpret map and globe information that is so difficult to

acquire and it is the ability to that the teachers must strive to develop in the
students through a constant use of pictures, globes and maps.

Map Scale is often thought of by students and some teachers as being something
shown in the legend of a map or globe to be used exclusively to measure distances
on the map or globe.

Map Symbolization including symbols, colors, and words used on globes and
maps, is the language of maps and is just difficult for the students to comprehend
as a foreign language.

Map Information is designed for assimilation over an extended period of time by

the sustained use of maps and globes.
 Some Concepts to be learned

The geographic concepts presented here are the stated and can be adapted
for use at any age or grade level.

The concepts presented first must begin with simple basic facts and then
progress in complexity as the students develop and gain geographic
understanding.

The following presentation of concepts is divided into four stages.

1. Readiness
2. Introductory
3. Lower and Intermediate
4. Intermediate and Advance Levels

In the readiness the students is a stranger to globes and map and should be introduced to the
globes and maps around him through simple and basic concept as follows:

1. The shape of the world is round in every direction

2. The world on which we live is very large.
3. There are differences from place to place on the earth’s surface.

The globe is the small model of our earth and any world map is a globe map transferred to a flat
surface by one of several methods.

The International Color Scheme shows land elevation and sea depths.

Variations in Maps and Globes Designed for Teaching at Different Levels of

Understanding

The problem of the use of maps and globes is that teacher understands the
variations occurring in these teaching aids.

An educational sequence of globes and maps to be chosen can be made only by a

careful analysis of the teaching goals designed for the various levels of
instruction.
Pictures and Map Scale

The use of pictures can assist the teacher to bring scale into the realm of a complete and
easy understanding for the students.

Limiting Qualities of Map Symbols

Recognizing and understanding the limited portrayal quality of symbolization as used on

maps is basic to understanding the full significance of a correlated picture to map use. A
map is in reality, the diagrammatic story of special distribution. Instead of words to
represent an object or an idea, symbols are used.

Pictures and Map Symbols

This limiting feature in symbolization is one of the factors which lends special
importance to a correlated use of pictures and maps.
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Conclusion

Therefore it is important to have a maps ,globes and pictures that be represented in the
classroom for the students to use this as a guide for them to know the different places that found
in it and they can differentiate the differences. Students can improve their learning by
representing different materials that used for the teacher when she will discuss. So teacher must
have good methods when it comes with the better knowledge of subject matter. Learning of the
students will come from the learning of the teacher because teacher share it to them.
Generalization
Maps- are a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space,
such as objects, regions, or themes.

Pictures -a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing,

photograph.

Teachers - a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession

Maps , Pictures and Pictures in the Classroom - it is important to display in the classroom
because some students can learn by seeing the materials and also it will help them to differentiate
the differences of such things.