Mapping our World :
The second tool I chose to do is Mapping our world, you can find this at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/mapping_our_world/mapping_our_world/l/home/index.htm. I think that this is such a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom to teach students about geography.
Mapping our World explores relationships between globes and maps, and how our different projections influence the way we look at the world. There are three lessons to choose from that you can use to teach your students about maps. The first lesson is what a globe looks like. It talks about how the earth looks from space, and if a mole dug through the center of the earth where it would end up. The second lesson is about the idea of projections. It teaches about Mercators and Peters and who they were, map merging, and that there is no perfect map of the world. The third lesson is on how different projections and orientations affect our world, an another activity that helps you to match the flags with their countries, and another activity talking about do the projections of countries fit their true size, and another activity asking if one country is more important than the other.
I think that this website is such a good thing for teachers to use to teach their students about geography. It gives teachers good subjects to talk about and activities go along with them. I would like to use it in my classroom one day
The second tool I chose to do is Mapping our world, you can find this at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/mapping_our_world/mapping_our_world/l/home/index.htm. I think that this is such a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom to teach students about geography.
Mapping our World explores relationships between globes and maps, and how our different projections influence the way we look at the world. There are three lessons to choose from that you can use to teach your students about maps. The first lesson is what a globe looks like. It talks about how the earth looks from space, and if a mole dug through the center of the earth where it would end up. The second lesson is about the idea of projections. It teaches about Mercators and Peters and who they were, map merging, and that there is no perfect map of the world. The third lesson is on how different projections and orientations affect our world, an another activity that helps you to match the flags with their countries, and another activity talking about do the projections of countries fit their true size, and another activity asking if one country is more important than the other.
I think that this website is such a good thing for teachers to use to teach their students about geography. It gives teachers good subjects to talk about and activities go along with them. I would like to use it in my classroom one day
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