Research On The Cultivation Of Comprehensive Thinking Of High School Students Based On Geographic Images

Comprehensive thinking is one of the basic ways of thinking in geography,and it is also an important educational goal of the high school geography curriculum.Geographical images is the second language of geography and an important tool and carrier of cultivating students’ geographic literacy and ability.Therefore,cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking by using geographical images is an inevitable requirement of geography,but currently there are few researches that integrate geographical images and comprehensive thinking.Given that,the paper explores the current situation of cultivating comprehensive thinking of high school students based on geographical images,and excavates the function and value of various geographical images for cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking,then proposes corresponding cultivating strategies.First of all,designing the questionnaire and interview outline based on the research of the predecessors and paper.Then,the questionnaire is distributed to 307 students form Zhengzhou No.2 High School and Yiyang No.1 High School,and 6geography teachers at different stages of development from the two schools are interviewed.According to the result of the questionnaire and interview,it is found that the image skill level of the students is relatively low,the students’ comprehensive thinking is at a lower middle level in general,the teaching situation of the teachers using geographical images is not good,the teachers’ understanding for comprehensive thinking is rather shallow,the channel of the teachers collecting geographical images is narrow and the quality of geographical images are collected is poor,the relevant training is insufficient.ect.Moreover,the teachers put forward relevant suggestions based on their teaching experience,which provides a reference for the research of the paper.Then the paper explores the role of geographical images for cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking,which is illustrated with cases,and it is found that different geographical images have large differences for cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking.Geographical statistical graph and table,contour map,geographical dynamic image and geographical animation are conducive to cultivating students’ space-time synthesis.Geographical diagram is helpful for cultivating students’ factor and space-time synthesis.Geographical landscape map and area map are beneficial to the cultivation of students’ place synthesis.Electronic map and mind mapping are good at cultivating students’ factor synthesis,space-time synthesis and place synthesis.Finally,the paper concludes the model and targeted strategy of cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking.The cultivating models are for factor synthesis,space-time synthesis and place synthesis.The strategies cover selecting geographical images carefully,attaching importance to the application of information technology,consolidating students’ image skill,using geographical animation to cultivate students’ space-time synthesis,cultivating students’ comprehensive thinking by mind mapping,expanding the channel of collecting images and improving the quality of images,strengthening the training for teachers.ect.The proposed model and strategy are helpful to improve the effectiveness of teaching,and have an important guideline value for geography teachers to cultivate students’ comprehensive thinking by using geographical images.