Explicando el mundo en el que vivimos con mapas: propuesta de aprendizaje cartográfico

Cartography is considered a useful tool to train people and educate future citizens. Teaching with maps offers students the possibility to develop skills of interpretation, understanding and representation of their environment, acquiring spatial geographic knowledge. This study is based on analysing, through surveys aimed at teachers and students of Secondary Education, what is being done in the classrooms with maps, when and how they are used, and the perceptions and knowledge of students. Therefore this didactic proposal expects detected problems and help support teachers and students in the teaching and learning of cartographic knowledge through its using. For this purpose the rubric is elaborated as an evaluation instrument with guidelines for the preparation of maps. Thus the hypothesis is reaffirmed that cartography is a necessary subject because it promotes skills and capabilities, as long as it is a guided, progressive, systematic and adapted learning.