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How Personal Experience and Culture Shape Mental Maps
Explain why people draw places they live in with more detail and size than unfamiliar distant regions.
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Geographic Perceptions and Personal Mental Maps
4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS
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Explore how culture, personal experiences, news, and education shape mental maps, and understand how perceptual regions are formed.
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SS.Geog1.c.mWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeConstruct a mental map of regions and locate the major regions of the world and their physical and cultural features including continents, cities, countries, bodies of water, landforms, mountain ranges, and climate zones. Compare mental maps shaped by individual perceptions of people, places, regions, and environments.
Geog1.cWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeMental mapping and maps from memory