A Practical Research On The Cultivation Of High School Students’ Geospatial Thinking Ability Based On GIS

Spatial thinking is very important for the cultivation of talents,and high school is a critical period for cultivating this thinking.Compared to geography in junior high school,the knowledge in senior high school is more difficult and the content is more abstract,which greatly tests students’ geospatial thinking skills.The geography standard for secondary schools has clearly stated that when teaching geography in high school,efforts should be made to develop the geospatial thinking ability of high school students.High school geography teachers should focus on cultivating the geospatial thinking ability of high school students in the teaching process,and the cultivation and enhancement of this ability can help develop students’ geographic core literacy.This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the current situation of the cultivation of geospatial thinking ability by reviewing and analysing information on geospatial thinking ability at home and abroad,as well as conducting a survey on the cultivation status of geospatial thinking ability among 25 geography teachers and one hundred high school students in High School A in Tongliao City.The paper proposes three major cultivation strategies and six teaching cases for cultivating geospatial thinking ability of high school students based on GIS,relying on Google Earth Professional and ArcGIS software based on GIS principles,and carries out teaching practice activities in the classroom,and analyses the teaching effect after practice.After the investigation of the current state of training and the implementation and analysis of teaching cases,the conclusions of this thesis are as follows:1.Three major strategies for GIS to cultivate geospatial thinking ability:(1)Three-dimensional presentation to enhance spatial perception ability;(2)Making thematic maps to enhance spatial comparison ability;(3)Layer superposition analysis to enhance spatial synthesis ability.2.GIS can promote the development of high school students’ geospatial thinking skills and improve geospatial perception,comparison and synthesis abilities,thereby enhancing core geographic literacy.At the same time,there are still shortcomings in this study:GIS technology is not yet popularized,and the design of the teaching case in this paper does not fully consider the differences in school teaching environment and teachers’ information literacy,and it is necessary to propose a more reasonable plan based on the actual situation.