National Atlas of Korea I
South Korea · National Geographic Information Institute · 2014
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Teaching spatial thinking with the national atlas of korea: a valuable resource for advanced placement human geography
Gregory Chu; Jongnam Choi; Chul Sue Hwang; Doug Andersen; Kenneth H. Keller; Michael Robinson; Kelly Swanson · 2016
This article introduces the second edition of The National Atlas of Korea, published in December 2014 by the National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) of South Korea in both Korean and English, and explores its value as a resource for teaching Advanced Placement Human Geography (APHG) in the United States. The atlas comprehensively covers South Korea's geography and its social, economic, political, global, and historical attributes, and includes a section on demographic, urbanization, and economic data for North Korea collected by South Korea's Ministry of Unification in 2014—information nearly impossible to obtain from any other source, including the CIA World Factbook. The atlas is divided into five chapters: Territory, Government and Local Autonomy, Transformation and Development of the Land, Korea in the World, and Map of Korea. Chapter 3 serves as the geographic and social studies core, detailing the extensive planning and policy decisions behind South Korea's land use and development since the 1953 armistice, with hundreds of maps, charts, and photographs covering topics such as population growth, settlement patterns, migration, economic growth, regional development, resources and energy, transportation, urbanization, education, health, environment, culture, and quality of life. The article emphasizes effective classroom use of the atlas, distinguishing between map reading (extracting information) and map analysis (visualizing patterns and generating new questions), and systematically introduces spatial thinking techniques including visualization and pattern recognition, asking "what if" questions, analyzing geographic attributes, establishing spatial associations, and hypothesis generation, illustrated with specific atlas maps such as commuter growth in the Capital Region. The authors also present four ready-to-use lesson plans and an AP Human Geography Curriculum Articulation document linking atlas resources to the new APHG curriculum, all freely downloadable from the NGII website. The atlas is described as a treasure trove of geographic data, maps, statistics, and photographs that U.S. geography and social studies teachers can utilize to create customized lesson plans, promoting cultural diversity and spatial thinking at no cost.
Reviews: The National Atlas of Korea, Volume I: National Territory
Aimée C. Quinn · 2018
This is a review of Volume I: National Territory of The National Atlas of Korea, published in 2014 by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and the National Geographic Information Institute. The review highlights that this volume, the first of a five-part project, harnesses new technologies like GIS and data mining to illustrate Korea's dynamic growth and societal changes since its independence in 1948. The atlas is organized into four sections: "Territory," "Government and Local Autonomy," "Transformation and Development of the Land," and "Korea in the World," with the "Territory" section being the largest, underscoring the Korean people's deep connection to their land and history of resistance. The reviewer praises the atlas for its comprehensive coverage and beautiful production, but notes that newer technologies could have been more fully utilized for data intersection. Overall, it is deemed a valuable and authoritative resource, freely available online.
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Gregory H. Chu; Chul Sue Hwang; Jongnam Choi · 2018
This paper is predicated on the body of literature that supports a theoretical concept that middle and high school age children possess the cognitive ability to understand thematic maps and achieve some degree of cartographic literacy. In 2006, the US National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies published a landmark book on Learning to Think Spatially. This book documented essential secondary education components and various aspects of teaching spatial thinking. The NRC defines spatial thinking as “a form of thinking based on a constructive amalgam of three elements: concepts of space, tools of representation, and processes of reasoning” (NRC, 2006, ix). This paper is an attempt to document and understand some of the attributes associated with these three elements. Specifically, it aims to find ways that can effectively contribute to the teaching of these elements associated with spatial thinking. The National Atlas of Korea is chosen for lesson plan development because it is well-designed and provides a range of contents and comprehensiveness that are ideal; in addition, it is freely accessible online and downloadable (http://nationalatlas.ngii.go.kr/). Four master geography teachers were invited to examine the Atlas to conceive and develop Advanced Placement Human Geography (APHG) lesson plans. Four lesson plans were written and have continually been implemented in classrooms to over 800 students in the States of Utah, Georgia, Minnesota, and Tennessee since the 2015 Fall semester. Results are presented in this paper.
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