Quantity Over Quality? Teaching Cartography Through the 30 Day Map Challenge

Authors

  • Carl Sack Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14714/CP102.1853

Abstract

I used the 30 Day Map Challenge as a framework to structure my Spring 2023 Cartography and Visualization community college course. Students were tasked with a new mapping assignment following the themes of the Map Challenge to complete during each class meeting throughout the semester, as an alternative to a more traditional project-based lab structure. I sequenced lecture topics to accompany and elucidate the Map Challenge prompts, and used Socratic prompts on Google Jamboard slides to spur collaborative class discussions. As a whole, the ten-student class completed 80% of submissions for 27 required mapping prompts, submitting a total of 218 maps that fulfilled the prompts. Short, thematic mapping activities entailed greater repetition of software workflows as well as more opportunities for independent problem solving.

Downloads

Published

2023-10-24

How to Cite

Sack, C. (2023). Quantity Over Quality? Teaching Cartography Through the 30 Day Map Challenge. Cartographic Perspectives, (102), 72–78. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP102.1853

Issue

Section

Views on Cartographic Education