Locating places: pictorial maps
Content Summary
Locating Places
Students:
- investigate how the location of places can be represented, for example: (ACHGK001)
- location of familiar and local places on maps.
- description of the location of places.
Background Notes for Teachers
The focus of these acitivities is on developing an understanding of the features and uses of pictorial maps and using the language of position to describe location.
Pictorial maps are a geographical tool that can be used to represent data in geographical inquiries. A pictorial map is defined by the NSW Geography k-10 syllabus as 'a map using illustrations to represent information on a map'. Pictorial maps are usually represented from a birds eye view or from a slanted angle.
Positional language includes: across, around, over, past, through, under, beside, behind, between, near, far, above, below.
Student Activities
Activity 1
Engagement and questioning
Activity 2
Acquiring geographical information
Activity 3
Representing geographical information
Resources
Picture books
My Map Book by Sara Fanelli
Maps by Aleksandria Mizielinska
Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
Pictorial maps
Winnie the Pooh – pictorial map of the Hundred Acre Wood
Tourist map of Penrith from the 1980s
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K - 10
Outcomes
GEe‑1 identifies places and develops an understanding of the importance of places to people
GEe‑2 communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools
Geographical Inquiry Skills
Acquiring geographical information
- pose questions and make observations (ACHGS001)
- record geographical data and information (ACHGS002)
Processing geographical information
- represent data using charts or graphs (ACHGS003)
- draw conclusions based on discussions of observations (ACHGS004)
Communicating geographical information
- present information (ACHGS005)
- reflect on their learning (ACHGS006)
Geographical Concepts
Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage the spaces that we live in eg location of a place in relation to other familiar places.
Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships
LAC
Learning across the curriculum
- Information and communication technology capability
- Critical and creative thinking
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Personal and social capability