Креативний простір України та світу. 1.3. Cartometric knowledge and skills as a component of cartographic literacy of schoolchildren

Cartographic literacy of schoolchildren is a complex of theoretical cartographic and topographic knowledge and practical skills to work with a map and other cartographic works. In a school geography course, cartographic literacy of students is laid down at the initial stage of studying the subject, and is in demand, formed and developed throughout the course of geographical education, since it is based on the use of maps to study the objects and phenomena displayed on them. The significance of maps in teaching geography lies in the fact that, firstly, they replace for students those geographical objects that are inaccessible for direct perception by schoolchildren in reality (for example, the territory of individual countries), and secondly, they form an image of the studied territory, and thirdly, maps form students’ spatial thinking, which underlies numerous applied skills used in everyday life