| Abstract [eng] |
Thematic maps are created considering to special standards and recommendations for cartographic signs, graphic information loads and et cetera. However, training maps in Lithuania are still produced without any clear standards or recommendations for the content. There are not enough researchers done on pupils’ perception of training maps such as an optimal quantity of graphic information in the maps for pupils for different grades. So, it is necessary to create the recommendations how to draw the geographic maps according to pupils’ perception in any grade. In education as well as in other areas, visualization is spreading widely as method. It is newly seen the traditional educational process and tools. Map is one of the oldest school attributes as a teaching tool used in many different subjects and curricular areas. However there are no new – especially original – educational researches about the information quality and quantity of the content of the training maps. In this paper author summarized the experience of applying GIS in geography teaching in Lithuania and Japan schools, also for the first time made very detail surveys on the basis of pupils’ perception of cartographic materials as well as provided a new methodic of pupils individual perception of graphic information loads and provided the specific and concrete recommendations of graphic information loads for the creation training maps for different levels of junior high school pupils. This paper consists of the following recommended main parts referring to the Lithuania Science Council’s resolution No. VI – 4, 2003: the introduction, the research review, methodology, research results, conclusions and references. The paper includes 91 original pictures, 23 tables and 112 literature sources. The whole paper consists of 213 pages. |
