Children's city map

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A children 's city ​​map or children's district map is a city ​​map that is specially designed for the needs of children and prepared in a child-friendly manner. Many German-speaking cities and municipalities already have a children's city map. The city maps are not subject to any standard. Some of them are supplemented by a booklet with further information, suggestions and stories from children from the city. Some children's city maps can be found on the Internet .

How children's city maps are created

In terms of production, a distinction can be made between city maps produced by adults and city maps drawn up with or by children. The city maps created by children are based on their own exploration of the urban environment.

If the plan is designed with children, the result reflects the children's view of their surroundings and their interest in certain facilities and places. City politicians and planners receive feedback on what children find important, what they lack in their city or what bothers them, what changes they are well or badly perceived by them. In this way, improvements in the situation in the district can be initiated for the children. During such a project, the children get to know the district better. They also learn how to explore your district.

The children themselves, kindergartens, clubs, schools, the city youth welfare office, the municipality or other institutions can publish a children's city map.

Contents of a children's city map

In addition to official play areas in the district, such as playgrounds , leisure homes and other children's facilities, insider tips (e.g. camps, backyards, secret paths, meeting points, play opportunities in mysterious places) are presented. History is just as important as nature in the city (parks, forests, animals). Also listed are sports and football fields , skate facilities, swimming facilities, libraries , cinemas and theaters as well as interesting shops and mobile play facilities. Locations such as schools, kindergartens, play streets and excursion destinations, but also topics such as road safety or environmental pollution are also included and explained, as are contact points for homework supervision, information and advice of all kinds. Good children's city maps represent a comprehensive and helpful information exchange, especially for new children. Your value and their authenticity increases with the contribution that the children themselves have in creating it.

From dealing with children's city maps

As a rule, children are only able to read city ​​maps created by adults and use them sensibly from about the third year of school . The unusual bird's eye view and the encryption with codes and characters are initially foreign to them. The children find their first access by looking at their environment from an elevated position (high-rise, church tower, hill). Another learning path results for the children from dealing with board game forms according to their perception, which depict the environment less abstractly than realistically. The Transport Education uses this access has long been about for creating school plans that help school children mature their way to school to learn to make their own. It is helpful for the child's understanding of map reading if the children are not presented with ready-made plans, but are allowed to design them themselves from the start by implementing the traffic reality they have experienced themselves in map form . The further development into an attractive board game guarantees intensive, also mental engagement in the group as well as constant variation possibilities according to the changes on the traffic routes.

history

In 1985, initiated by the Pedagogical Action, the first city book for children and families with the title Adventure in Munich was created . The Munich Guide is not just a book for children, but an important way of letting children have their say. As specialists and urban researchers, they were involved in the creation and editing of the book. The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Spiellandschaft Stadt eV Munich also deals with the creation and dissemination (€ 3.-) of children's district plans, of which a large number has already been published for Munich.

According to Südkurier, the Lake Constance city of Friedrichshafen published its first city map for children in 2003. A corresponding city map has also been available online since 2008. An updated 24-page version was developed in 2009 and the family sign added to the city. The free signpost contains information about football fields, swimming pools, museums, skate and inline lanes. With the spread of the Internet, more and more children's city maps are published all over Germany.

In 2005 the Ministry for Education, Women and Youth in Rhineland-Palatinate supported new children's city plans with its own action program.

In 2006, Düsseldorf presented city maps for children, which not only serve as orientation but also for children’s traffic safety.

Related topics

literature

  • Spiellandschaft Stadt eV (ed.): Children's city ​​district plans . Tips, topics and actions relating to children's district plans . Munich 1996
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz : We create a game for ourselves on the way to school. First grader in an interdisciplinary project . In: Case-Word-Number 30 (2002) 23-27
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz : The way to school game . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . Baltmannsweiler. 6th edition 2009. pp. 216-221

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Links to children's city ​​maps of some cities , children's information service kids-online, Spiellandschaft Stadt eV in cooperation with the City Youth Welfare Office / House of Youth Work Munich
  2. ^ Warwitz SA: We create a game for ourselves on the way to school. First grader in an interdisciplinary project . In: Case-Word-Number 30 (2002) 23-27
  3. ^ Warwitz SA: The way to school game . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . Baltmannsweiler. 6th edition 2009. pp. 216-221
  4. ^ Warwitz SA: The way to school game . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . Baltmannsweiler. 6th edition 2009. pp. 216-221
  5. ↑ http ://www.formund Zweck.com/autoren.php?Z+Zacharias+Wolfgang
  6. ↑ http://www.kids.muc.kobis.de/kinderstadtplan/stadtplaene.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.suedkurier.de/friedrichshafen/erster-stadtplan-fuer-kinder,art372474,715186 - First city map for children . Gaby Kramer. November 3, 2003
  8. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de - newspaper report from March 24, 2009
  9. ↑ Ahnen: Children's city maps make municipalities more child-friendly , bildungsklick.de, July 21, 2005
  10. ^ Children's city plan for Düsseldorf , Office for Traffic Management, State Capital Düsseldorf