International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 10 Number: 2 Page: 149–167
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A Controlled Experiment in Teaching Physical Map Skills to Grade 4 Pupils in Elementary Schools
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Shimshon Livni and Varda Bar
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A new unit for teaching physical map skills to Grade 4 (age 9–10) students in Israeli elementary schools has been developed. Designed using previously reported research into the initial cognitive
abilities required to learn map skills, it has been evaluated in a controlled teaching experiment. The results indicate that using this new unit for teaching map skills helps to overcome continuing teaching
difficulties and students' underachievement. Students showed a mastery of the required cognitive abilities and knowledge of map skills which was significantly higher than that in students who had studied
by conventional methods.
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