The development of spatial thinking of schoolboys in the course of drawing up mental maps in geography class

Abstract. In the new educational standards of the compound there is a problem of local knowledge in each subject in a broad holistic view of the world. In geography lessons the author used a technique of drawing mental maps - representation of any natural process or object in a comprehensive, systematic, visual (graphic) form. All training information is displayed graphically on a large sheet of paper to reflect semantic, causal, associative links between concepts and is often considered a natural object or phenomenon.