Sarah Carpenter
02-10-2004, 04:19 PM
Hi
Thought I'd share this idea with you. It's got lots of uses for Geography but I've used it to support our work on 'the local area' and 'our routes to school'.
Find a suitable scale map of your required area (I used www.multimap.com) (http://www.multimap.com)) and copy and paste it onto a new flipchart page. You can then resize it and then draw routes on it - add features to the map using your own digital camera images or use the resources within the geography section of the resource library (which include buildings, outdoors features and map symbols). This allows you (and the children, mustn't forget about them!) to build up a representation of your local area or childrens routes to school - it looks impressive and is great fun!! graemlins/icon_biggrin.gif
For those of you not familiar with Multimap you can enter any postcode which will provide you with a map and then select different scales. You can also switch between map and aerial views of the selected area. To copy and paste aerial views onto a flipchart page I found it best to choose to print the aerial view from within Multimap and then from that page select copy.
Bye for now graemlins/wave.gif
Sarah
Thought I'd share this idea with you. It's got lots of uses for Geography but I've used it to support our work on 'the local area' and 'our routes to school'.
Find a suitable scale map of your required area (I used www.multimap.com) (http://www.multimap.com)) and copy and paste it onto a new flipchart page. You can then resize it and then draw routes on it - add features to the map using your own digital camera images or use the resources within the geography section of the resource library (which include buildings, outdoors features and map symbols). This allows you (and the children, mustn't forget about them!) to build up a representation of your local area or childrens routes to school - it looks impressive and is great fun!! graemlins/icon_biggrin.gif
For those of you not familiar with Multimap you can enter any postcode which will provide you with a map and then select different scales. You can also switch between map and aerial views of the selected area. To copy and paste aerial views onto a flipchart page I found it best to choose to print the aerial view from within Multimap and then from that page select copy.
Bye for now graemlins/wave.gif
Sarah