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Using Accessible Maps to Teach Location Literacy

Use accessible maps to virtually explore streets, create routes, and access 15 million points of interest in over 40 countries. The Advanced Features teach cardinal directions, mental mapping, and environmental concepts for social studies.

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Using Accessible Maps to Teach Location Literacy

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  1. Using Accessible Maps to Teach Location Literacy By: Mike May

  2. Verbal and visual descriptions • Virtually explore streets • Create and navigate routes • 15 million points of interest • Maps for more than 40 countries available • APH version includes built-in speech capability Accessible PC Maps

  3. Accessible Maps

  4. Set a destination and track the distance and compass heading • Save, reverse, review, and print or emboss routes • Record or type descriptive information about a particular intersection, parking lot, building, or other location • Transfer POIs and routes to other Sendero GPS systems Advanced Features

  5. Left and right concepts • Cardinal Directions • Clock face directions • Mental Mapping • Environmental concepts including shapes of intersections, direction of travel, sidewalks, types of streets etc. • Applies geography and social studies core curriculum concepts Benefits:Introduces Important Concepts

  6. Learn about surroundings and have access to visual signs • LookAround: street names, intersections, points of interest • Mental and visual mapping skills • Can be introduced with tactile maps (example: T Maps or Chang Kit) • Used for both classroom and O&M lessons Benefits:Access to Location Information

  7. Find Lunch! • Finding POIs • Should I walk or take a taxi? Scenarios

  8. O&M lesson • What is around Student’s School • Finding POIs • Creating Route to nearby POI to preview for lesson Scenarios

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