Research On Constructing Mental Maps For Senior High School Students By Using Board Chart

Geography learning in senior high school involves many contents and is comprehensive and closely related to other disciplines.With the continuous development of geography and increasing attention,experts,scholars and teachers at home and abroad have found that building a good psychological map is conducive to geography learning.At present,the theory and strategy of building psychological maps are becoming mature.Many of them point out that the map can play an important role in the process of students' building psychological maps,but few of them put forward how to use the map to help students build psychological maps in geography teaching.This paper combines the related research of predecessors and the author's high school geography teaching practice,adopts the observation method,interview method,and combines the cognitive characteristics of high school students,puts forward the concrete methods and Strategies of using the board map to construct psychological map.Specifically,the maps involved in the teaching of compulsory geography 1,2 and 3 are classified into three types: geographical region maps,geographic principle maps and geographic process maps according to their contents.Then,the study is carried out by taking the topographic maps of China,the global ocean current distribution maps and the thermodynamic circulation maps as specific cases to explore the use of three types of maps in geography teaching to assist senior high school students to construct their psychology.The method and strategy of map.On this basis,using questionnaire survey method and case analysis method,and combining with teaching practice,this paper analyzed the level and effect of improving students' ability to use board maps and psychological maps.The study found that: using the psychological map to help students construct psychological map is conducive to improving the theory of psychological map construction and enriching geography teaching;helping students construct psychological map is conducive to improving students' understanding and memory ability;helping students construct psychological map is conducive to improving students' regional cognitive ability and helping high school students construct psychological map.