Designing and applying caricatures to teaching population geography at high school

Teaching material is necessary and plays an important role in the teaching and learning process. Caricature or cartoon is one of the most effective visual materials in teaching geography in high school. Caricature itself not only transmits information and knowledge but also helps the teacher to develop the student’s critical thinking skills in teaching geography. Nowadays, geography teachers can collect or design caricatures themselves by using various online applications or caricatures by hand. Caricature can be an important material for many geography teachers to design lesson plans and learning activities for students to discover new understandings in different topics. Applying caricature in teaching geography will greatly contribute to teaching innovation, combining different methods and teaching techniques, etc, especially in competent learning and teaching processes. This article briefly focuses on introducing the basic process of designing a caricature and ways to apply it effectively in teaching population geography at high school, bringing knowledge of joy to our students in each geography lessons.