Tomorrow, we are wrapping up our first chapter in geography with a test. This chapter, we have been studying the importance of maps, how maps are made, and different types of maps and projections. We have done several fun activities in class throughout this chapter.
We turned our classroom into a Siberian wilderness as the students made maps to hunt for gold.
We explored different maps to learn about things like compass rose, scale, and a map key.
We learned about different ways our round globe is projected on a flat map and how they distort.
We also learned about different features on our globe like latitude, longitude, Equator, Prime Meridian, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, and the International Date Line.
We will start Chapter 2 next week which covers different features a map can show like elevation, climate, vegetation, and population density.
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