Mental Maps
What Is A Mental Map?
Do you Need a Map To… Find your way to the bus stop in the morning? Go to the bathroom in school? Get around Newport News? Find countries such as Iraq, China, and Russia?
People Use Mental Maps … To carry out daily activities such as shopping and going to school or work. Give directions to other people. Understand world events.
Ways Mental Maps Can Be Developed and Refined A. Comparing sketch maps to maps in atlases or other resources B. Describing the location of places in terms of reference points C. Describing the location of places in terms of geographic features and land forms D. Describing the location of places in terms of the human characteristics of a place