Entire lesson with embedded videos is at
:
http://computerkiddoswiki.pbwiki.com/Maps
Maps
r>InterestingThings to Know about Maps!
1. Maps are drawings that represent a place in the earth as seen from above.
2. People who make maps are called Cartographers
3. According to The Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia, the earliest known map was drawn on a small clay tablet in the 3rd millennium BC by the Sumerians.
4. Early Egyptians drew maps to show property lines because the Nile River flooded the area every year and washed away the land markers.
5.Pirates used maps to find buried treasure.
Learning about Maps and
symbols
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapadv.htm
Some standard types of maps listed in Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia are:
Political -- show cultural features like the outlines of countries, states, and cities.
Physical -- show natural features, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Road -- show tourist attractions, types of roads, railroad crossings, etc.
Thematic -- show specific kinds of information. Physical thematic maps show land formations, rocks and minerals, or weather. Cultural thematic maps show population, languages, religion, or economic trends.
Weather -- show precipitation (rain, sleet, snow) and cold fronts.
Maps can be a combination of different types. A physical map may also show outlines of states, and political maps may show oceans and other landforms.
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Let's learn how to read a Map
Click Below
mapskills2.pdf
Let's do a Map Quest!
Instructions:
1. Open internet
2. Inside google type: Maps you will go to http://maps.google.com/
3. Type in the school address
4. Select Get Map
5. Try the zoom feature
6. Select driving directions
7. Enter your home address
8. You may print out maps
9. You can have the students map out to other spots in Michigan.
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<b>Let's find where we are on the Earth</B>
Instructions:
1. Click on Google Earth
2.Type in our school address that I will write on the board
3. Zoom in and look for:
a.The Parking Lot
b. The Playground
c. The School Building
<b>Listen and Reflect:</B>
We read the Story together Me on the Map. We are going to create our own Me on the Map book and UPLOAD the pictures to Snapfish.com and create our own book.
Pictures:
1. Let's use Google to find pictures of :Earth, North American, The United States, Michigan, Kent County, and Grand Rapids. These pictures were taken from Satelites. We need to make sure that they are all in the public domain- I will check on this for you!
2. We are going to break into small groups and take pictures of the rooms in our school.
3. Each person gets to draw a map that is a representation of the picture you took.
<b>Project 1:</B>
1. Open the Lego Digital design program- use the virtual building blocks to build a house
2. Once you are finished go the the big tub of real legos and make a "model" of your virtual design
2. Lets put all our houses together to make a neighborhood.
<b>Project 2:</B>
1. Now lets take a walking tour of our school. Take a picture of each room.
2. Use Kid Pix to draw a map of the room you took a picture of.
<B>Want to Learn More</B>
http://www.mcwdn.org/MAPS&GLOBES/MapsGlobesHome.html
http://www.mcwdn.org/MAPS&GLOBES/Maps.html
