SCHOOL CARTOGRAPHY AS AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING: A METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL
Key-Words: Geography; Cartography; Teaching; Map; Literacy.
ABSTRACT
Teaching School Cartography is an important part of teaching School Geography, there is no way to imagine studying one without the other. However, there are difficulties faced by both students and teachers during the teaching/learning process. The expected result of this process, Cartographic Literacy, does not always happen in the expected period, which according to the Common National Curricular Base (BRASIL, 2017), is during Elementary Education. The following Dissertation aims to present, through Action Research, a methodological proposal for teaching School Cartography in School Geography in High School. What we seek is to propose a method in which students will be encouraged to produce their own thematic maps, where the concepts and methods for preparing these materials will be used to represent the reality experienced and observed by them. It is expected that, through the development of this research, the Cartographic Literacy of students will be facilitated, providing students with the ability to read and interpret the most varied cartographic products, as well as contributing to the construction of spatial knowledge.