Map is an important carrier of geographic information, which stores abundant geographic information. Effective use of geographical images, through reading, using geographical images, drawing simple maps, helps students to master and observe geographical things, so that learning can get twice the result with half the effort. How to use maps to learn geography knowledge? In teaching, I mainly grasp three words "reading-drawing-remembering".

1, look at the map, first look at the map name, then look at the legend, and finally look at the map. Get the location, distribution, size, shape and other information of various geographical things from maps and pictures. Pay attention to the relationship between geographical elements and analyze the relationship between geographical things. Reading the "overlay" of various maps of a region or a country can help us understand and master more geographical features of a region or a country and find out the problem of reading maps.

Draw an outline and fill in the names of various geographical things. Maps often contain more geographical things. When learning, you can sketch out more important geographical things, so as to master their geographical location and other information. For example, when studying Brazil, we can simply draw an outline map of Brazil, and draw important latitudes (equator and tropic of Capricorn) in the map, so that students can fill in the land and ocean positions of Brazil, and then fill in the names of the main terrain areas according to the characteristics of its topography, which is "low in the north and high in the south". In this way, we have not only firmly grasped the general situation of Brazil's physical geography, but also enhanced our practical ability. Through the process of drawing, we can easily grasp the geographical concept, geographical spatial distribution law and map knowledge, and put an end to the phenomenon of "dislocation of moving place names and geographical laws" Make students' understanding of knowledge rise from perceptual to rational, and deepen and consolidate the geographical knowledge they have learned.

3. Recall the picture. Store the map clearly and completely in your mind and play it back at any time. Even if the map is not in front of you, you can imagine the map information stored in the space. When you mention any continent and ocean, you will form seven continents and four oceans and a distribution map in your mind, and you can accurately tell the relationship between them.