This study is an analysis of the impact of changing the world aware of mapwork in high school geography lesson. Hand-drawn map of the world were used for analysis of the learner's world knowledge. 97 high school students are included in the analysis. Mapwork of students were quantified. Hand-drawn worldmap of students were quantified. For these were the correlation analysis and statistical hypothesis testing. And the existence of relations was discussed. The results are as follows.
1) Mapwork has an effect on world recognition. Mapwork for the whole world is effective in the world recognition.
2) Mapwork is effective in such forms as those related to border and coastline in the world recognition. Mapwork is effective in the coastal hinterland with more complex shapes. mapwork has effect on Africa and South America. Mapwork is also effective about place names. Especially effective for the mapwork is country name clear.
3) There is too no mapwork's immediately influences for the regular examination.
The learner seems to catch the result of mapwork once as the world recognition, the world recognition formed including the influence from another have a big influence on the regular examination. Mapwork that catches the interest and the concern on the learner side is a study method of enhancing the value of the map further more. It is an important viewpoint to use mapwork more effectively for the geography education.
