Teaching Map Reading Skills in Elementary Schools

Duration: 0:22:00

Creator: BFA Educational Media

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents class activities at various levels of the elementary school which are designed to teach map reading and geography. Shows the pupils in their classrooms and on a field trip drawing maps and developing concepts of how these maps relate to actual features. Concepts of map symbols, orientation, color, map legend, elevation, contour, latitude and longitude, as well as time zones are illustrated and explained.

Complete Record: , Presents class activities at various levels of the elementary school which are designed to teach map reading and geography. Shows the pupils in their classrooms and on a field trip drawing maps and developing concepts of how these maps relate to actual features. Concepts of map symbols, orientation, color, map legend, elevation, contour, latitude and longitude, as well as time zones are illustrated and explained.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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