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Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students use the Visual Thesaurus to help them identify and label the continents and oceans on a world map. Then, students create original mnemonic devices to help commit the lists of continents and oceans to memory.
Jan 22, 2024 · Modeling the use of maps in and out of school can help students to recognize the value of maps and gain confidence with them. Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before learning about states, countries, and continents.
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Conceptions of the larger world and a person’s place in it, including sketches of the world as a person imagines it, may be called mental or cognitive maps. Because world maps are drawn on a flat surface, they cannot show Earth’s curved surface without significant distortions.
Mar 10, 2024 · This is why we use map projections on globes and flatten them out in two dimensions. But as you’re about to find out, you can’t represent Earth’s surface in two dimensions without distortion . On top of that, all types of map projections have strengths and weaknesses preserving different attributes.
Mar 4, 2024 · Investigating Map Projections. Students use oranges to investigate the effects of changing a 3-D surface to a 2-D surface. They then examine the distortions of different map projections while comparing land and ocean to its representation on a globe.
The map shows a representation of the world, the land, and the seas of Earth. It displays a satellite image of the continents with countries and a shaded relief of the seabed. The Robinson map projection of the world shows major geographical features, such as the highest mountains, the deepest oceanic trench, the largest deserts, the biggest ...
The Geography National Curriculum for key stage 3 requires that students ‘extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world’. Students need to develop a ‘mental map’ of where places are so they have a personal framework for storing information about places.
