FORMING OF CARTOGRAPHIC LITERACY AT GEOGRAPHY LESSONS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The article considers the problems associated with the forming of students’ secondary school cartographic literacy by introducing a map of concepts in geography lessons. The author has made a deep analysis of the research methods of using maps in teaching geography. Based on what conclusions that the most urgent is to focus on information and communications technology, including GPS technology, a wide range of training and software products that have appeared in recent years, should stimulate the development of methods of teaching cartography school at geography lessons. The appearing of new electronic cartographic products, educational software will encourage further development of methods of school geography, which includes a content mapping, creating new instructional techniques and organizational forms for learning the basics of cartography in school geography course, because we know that without a map impossible to learn geography. Summarizing we can conclude that cartographic culture in secondary school students through a meaningful component of geography - cartography, part of which is a cartographic literacy. Thus, an important part of geographical education at the present stage of development of Ukrainian schools is implementing information and communication technologies in the educational process of geography.