Thursday, September 20, 2012

Map Drawing - Next Phase - Outline Map


So we've mastered the "blob map" and now we've moved on to the Outline Map.  "Mastered" to me was that she could tell me the 5 Great Circles, Could draw them along with the blobs in the correct places - free hand.  Here is the next step we are on...

First we are tracing the outline of the World Map from CC Connected.
I have her tape down the tracing paper to the table so the paper doesn't move on her.

 She traces her Equator Line and her Prime Meridian and label them or initial them if you want to make it easier for them.

Next she traces just a darkened outline of the larger bodies of land for the 7 Continents.  I don't worry about having her trace the little islands....


I have begun a Cycle 1 Maps Lapbook of sorts.  This is where I have the maps I want her to work on drawing this year.

I've found grid paper on CC Connected for Map Drawing as well as Maps with grid backgrounds for the World and Africa maps for Cycle 1.  I then glued them to the lapbook in a manner that makes tracing them or free handing with a dry erase marker easy.  Such as below....


Then I used the peel and stick lamination you can buy from Staples to apply a surface that she could dry erase mark over and not have to use tracing paper.  
 



 Additional maps that we will work on later this year above.....



This is the final draw and two different maps she did.  The first one pictured was her first attempt. 

This map is the one that she's now working towards which has all the full names of the Continents and Oceans written out, the Prime Meridian and Equator labeled and the direction compass.  We do some quizzing after she draws.  Questions like "Is South American East or West of Africa?" and have her start orientating herself with directions N/S/E/W.







9 comments:

  1. Wow that looks really neat, our Mystery of History only has 28 weeks this year and at the end of the year we are doing a geography study and I think this would be a wonderful addition to that. Blessings, K

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  2. Looks great! We have been blobbing this year and my kids really enjoy it! My son can do the compass, Equator, Prime Meridian, and Tropics by himself, and we are working on placing our first continent. Thanks for showing us what you guys are doing now that you've mastered the BLOB!

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  3. Great! It looks a bit like mapping the world by heart. I'm not sure how you use the plain grid that you show several times. Is it a clear one you put over top of the map?

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    1. Hi Annie - I use the grid to further help them with placing their continents and it helps with gauging size of the continent as well. She draws the equator and prime meridians and then the grid just helps in sizing/proportions for those continents. :) Hope that helps.... Blessings - Colleen

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  4. would you be willing to share who on C3 posted the maps you used? I've searched and can't find them.

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    1. HI Amanda - I do not know who did them. It was three years ago and with the revamp of C3, I don't know if they are on there any longer. I don't currently have C3, so I am unable to check for you. It basically was the outline map then traced with a thick sharpie pen to make the outline stand out for tracing. :) Any blackline map from the Curriculum Guide in the back can be photocopies and would work fine -just trace the outline with a sharpie and it will work great. Hope that helps. Blessings - Colleen

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  5. Can you point me in the direction of how to obtain the map with gridlines. I cannot find them on Connected. Wondering if anyone knows the user name that uploaded them.

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    1. Hi Kimberly - It's been years since I printed that out. I'm not sure who did it. However, you can google graph paper and make some of your own if you wanted to. :)

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  6. Hi- Would you be willing to put a copy of the map with gridlines on your website as a printable, so that we may have a copy of it? It is a great idea and the grid makes it easier to draw the map.

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