If people once thought you could fall off the edge of the Earth, what did their maps look like?
Compare a selection of maps from different times and places. Afterwards, students will make their own maps. They'll pick a place, think about the level of detail they should include in their map, and think about the different ways the map will portray the things they know about the places shown.
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Cartography forms the basis of geography, the spatial science in true sense. The philosophers of geography not only described the earth but found a media to show us the reality.
Maps according to forms
Angielica Bandillo
MAPS ACCORDING TO FORMS
Chalkboard outline map
Student outline maps
Projected maps
Wall maps (decorative maps)
Atlas
Sand table maps
Pictorial maps
Chalkboard Outline Map
a map that is typically done on a construction paper or on the blackboard with chalk.
Student Outline Map
Projected maps
transformed and represented positions from the earth's three-dimensional curved surface to a two-dimensional (flat) surface.
Wall maps (decorative maps)
Atlas
Sand table map
Pictorial maps
That would be all…
Chapter 11
Exploring Our Geographic World
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DistanceTime and distance are very important concepts in the social studies curriculum.Children’s sense of time develops gradually.Maps and globes help children understand distance, direction, and location.
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MapsMaps show portions of the earth, which is a sphere, on a flat surface.Maps must compromise size, distance, and proportion.Maps are abstract representations of reality.Maps do not show everything, but only what is important to a researcher.Maps are resources used to communicate reality in a selective way.
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Experiential Approaches to TeachingTraditional textbook approaches are less effective than experiential approaches.Hands on experiences are very important for young children to make connections between the landscape and its graphic representation.Children begin making maps at a very young age when they draw pictures.
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The Five Themes of GeographyThe five themes of geography can provide points of reference for activities related to geography and include:
Location
Place
Interaction
Movement
Region
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Location & PlaceTeachers can introduce the concept of location by discussing absolute location.The absolute location is at a particular intersect of longitude and latitude or the address that locates a place within a city or town.Relative location involves how near or far a place is to other places.A place has certain characteristics such as whether it is cold, dry, humid, flat or hilly.
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Interaction, Movement & RegionThe concept of interaction focuses on the way people change and use their environment.Movement is a concept which explains the way people move from location to location. For example, children go to school each morning and leave in the afternoon.A region describes aspects such as suburban, rural, middle class, and so forth.
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Helping Students Learn to Make and Read MapsStudents need to observe and record in order to make maps.Teachers can help students develop these skills by including a number of activities.An ideal starting point is the school.
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Mental MapsA mental map refers to images of places in our heads.All of us have been to many places and can also imagine images of places we have never been to.Mental maps are useful because people like to think about places they have been to and places they’ve never visited.Mental maps are not necessarily accurate.
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Traverse MapsA traverse map represents a line through an area such as a river, street or boundary.Children can make such a map by walking through a block and observing and recording what is on the two sides of the street.When children do observe and record to gather information, they are doing fieldwork.
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Visualizing SpaceVisualizing space involves the ability to give directions from familiar places such as how to go home from school.Children also tend to enjoy this process and teachers can take advantage of this by offering students activities that allow the ...
Cartography forms the basis of geography, the spatial science in true sense. The philosophers of geography not only described the earth but found a media to show us the reality.
Maps according to forms
Angielica Bandillo
MAPS ACCORDING TO FORMS
Chalkboard outline map
Student outline maps
Projected maps
Wall maps (decorative maps)
Atlas
Sand table maps
Pictorial maps
Chalkboard Outline Map
a map that is typically done on a construction paper or on the blackboard with chalk.
Student Outline Map
Projected maps
transformed and represented positions from the earth's three-dimensional curved surface to a two-dimensional (flat) surface.
Wall maps (decorative maps)
Atlas
Sand table map
Pictorial maps
That would be all…
Chapter 11
Exploring Our Geographic World
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DistanceTime and distance are very important concepts in the social studies curriculum.Children’s sense of time develops gradually.Maps and globes help children understand distance, direction, and location.
*
MapsMaps show portions of the earth, which is a sphere, on a flat surface.Maps must compromise size, distance, and proportion.Maps are abstract representations of reality.Maps do not show everything, but only what is important to a researcher.Maps are resources used to communicate reality in a selective way.
*
Experiential Approaches to TeachingTraditional textbook approaches are less effective than experiential approaches.Hands on experiences are very important for young children to make connections between the landscape and its graphic representation.Children begin making maps at a very young age when they draw pictures.
*
The Five Themes of GeographyThe five themes of geography can provide points of reference for activities related to geography and include:
Location
Place
Interaction
Movement
Region
*
Location & PlaceTeachers can introduce the concept of location by discussing absolute location.The absolute location is at a particular intersect of longitude and latitude or the address that locates a place within a city or town.Relative location involves how near or far a place is to other places.A place has certain characteristics such as whether it is cold, dry, humid, flat or hilly.
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Interaction, Movement & RegionThe concept of interaction focuses on the way people change and use their environment.Movement is a concept which explains the way people move from location to location. For example, children go to school each morning and leave in the afternoon.A region describes aspects such as suburban, rural, middle class, and so forth.
*
Helping Students Learn to Make and Read MapsStudents need to observe and record in order to make maps.Teachers can help students develop these skills by including a number of activities.An ideal starting point is the school.
*
Mental MapsA mental map refers to images of places in our heads.All of us have been to many places and can also imagine images of places we have never been to.Mental maps are useful because people like to think about places they have been to and places they’ve never visited.Mental maps are not necessarily accurate.
*
Traverse MapsA traverse map represents a line through an area such as a river, street or boundary.Children can make such a map by walking through a block and observing and recording what is on the two sides of the street.When children do observe and record to gather information, they are doing fieldwork.
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Visualizing SpaceVisualizing space involves the ability to give directions from familiar places such as how to go home from school.Children also tend to enjoy this process and teachers can take advantage of this by offering students activities that allow the ...
Through Art of the Map, we will connect relevant experiences, current events, identity, and popular culture to design a diverse learning experience in visual art linked to Provincial Learning Standards.
“To what extent has the Modern Revolution been a positive or a negative force?” is the driving question for Unit 9. The purpose of this activity is to apply Unit 9’s driving question
to a modern-day infrastructure development: the Interoceanic Highway (La Carretera). Construction on La Carretera, which connects the east and west coasts of South America, began in the early twenty-first century. By studying the scenes depicted in a photojournalist’s photographic essay, students will come to their own conclusions about the extent to which this road has been a positive or negative force as related to certain trends and topics (economic development and natural environment, for example). This activity will also help prepare students for Investigation 9, in which they’re asked to identify good and bad outcomes of trends referenced in the Investigation texts.
This activity will give students a chance to review some of what they learned in this lesson, and use it to think more deeply about what and how they would communicate with an alien species.
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Circling one star among hundreds of billions, in one galaxy among a hundred billion more, in a Universe that is vast and expanding ever faster – perhaps toward infinity. It’s easy to forget that we live in a place of astonishing grandeur and mystery.
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Unit 9: Comparing the Costs of Renewable and Conventional Energy SourcesBig History Project
You can’t get too far in a discussion about the nation’s electric power sector without running into the question of costs.
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This quick activity will get students brainstorming about life on Mars and what they would need to survive there.
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Use www.gapminder.org/data to fill out the data in each of the tables below. To find the data you need, make sure that you have the name of the category. On the gapminder.org/data page, you’ll see a table called “List of indicators in “Gapminder World.” Beneath that title, on the right side of the table, find the
Search box. Type the name of the category into that search area. Once you find the category, click on the magnifying glass on the right. That link will have the data you need to fill out each of the tables below.
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Spanning three centuries of history, from the dawn of the industrial age to modern times, three diverse
thinkers developed their own landmark theories on commerce, labor, and the global economy.
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In the final essay of a four-part series, David Christian explains
how advances in communication and transportation accelerated
collective learning.
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Lesson 9.2 Activity: The Impact of Population Growth EssayBig History Project
For this closing activity, students will construct an essay in which they discuss what they think are the three biggest impacts of human population growth in the modern era. By looking more closely at population growth, they will deepen their understanding of the impact of acceleration and will think about themselves in relation to population growth and the effect it might have on their own futures.
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Unit 8: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesBig History Project
Jared Mason Diamond (1937 — ) is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently a professor of geography and of physiology at UCLA. His 1997 book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies, from which the following passages are excerpted, won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. The basic premise of the book is to explain why Eurasian civilizations have survived
and conquered others, while refuting the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to intellectual, moral, or genetic superiority.
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Making comparisons is an important intellectual tool for all people and especially for historians and scientists. Historians, in particular, make comparisons across time to understand what
has changed and what has remained constant. This question looks at the spread of plague and our collective reaction to plague at two different times in human history—the fourteenth century and the nineteenth century. Such a comparison enables us to see clearly how we have changed.
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Lesson 8.3 Activity: Revising Investigation Writing - Sentence Starters Part 2Big History Project
Students have examined and revised an Investigation writing sample based on Criteria A, B, and C of the rubric. Now, they’ll undergo the same process with a peer essay. In addition, they’ll do this alone instead of in groups. So, although the process is the same as in the last Investigation writing activity, this one might be more difficult since students will move away from group work and will complete this worksheet on their own. However, it’s important for students to be able to accomplish this exercise on their own since in the next lesson, they’ll apply this same process to their own writing. Again, while the categories in the rubric are a useful tool for initially understanding the different elements of writing, they need to be looked at as a whole since the areas of focus are interrelated.
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Unit 8: When Humans Became Inhumane: The Atlantic Slave TradeBig History Project
Once Europeans had figured out how to be effective middlemen — buying and selling silver, tea, and fur, they turned to figuring out how to also become producers of the commodities they were trading.
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Unit 8: Investigating the Consequences of the Columbian ExchangeBig History Project
A new era in human history began in 1492 as the four world zones became connected. For the first time, humans created truly global networks.
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The account of the travels of the Muslim legal scholar Ibn Battuta in the first half of the fourteenth century reveals the wide scope of the Muslim world at that time.
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This collection of biographies provides students with detailed information about the voyages of these explorers including information about their motivation and how they inspired future generations of explorers. These men opened the door to a more interconnected world as the contacts they made helped to create connections between distant peoples and stimulate the growth of exchange networks and long-distance trade.
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Lesson 7.2 Activity: Essay - Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?Big History Project
You’re going to pick a civilization you’ve already researched, and then use the information from your Early Civilizations Museum Project, your Comparing More Civilizations Worksheet, and your Rise, Fall, and Collapse of Civilizations Worksheet to write a five-paragraph essay about whether that civilization was pushed (external forces were the main cause of its downfall) or it jumped (something internal was responsible—they were their own worst enemy). A “pushed” example: Two empires went to war. You might say the winning empire “pushed” the losing empire into collapse. An example of a civilization having “jumped” can be found in the Easter Island Activity earlier in the course: One of the theories for the collapse of Easter Island is that the inhabitants depleted the natural resources they needed to survive. The people were, in a sense, the cause of their own destruction—they “jumped.”
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Lesson 7.2 Activity: Social Status, Power, and Human BurialsBig History Project
This activity provides students with an opportunity to start thinking about the impact that farming can have on the way humans live and relate to each other. It will also allow them to think about the kinds of questions archaeologists and historians might ask when they must rely upon artifacts rather than written evidence to learn about the past.
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Unit 7: Greco-Roman: Early Experiments in Participatory GovernmentBig History Project
Instead of rule by a single person, Athens and Rome developed governments with widespread participation by male elites, which lasted about 170 years in Athens and 480 years in Rome.
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During the same narrow sliver of cosmic time, cities, states, and civilizations emerged independentlyin several places around the world.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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1. TEACHING MATERIALS
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COMPARING MAPS
Summary
In this activity students look at maps from different times and places as a way to explore how
the science of cartography and our understanding and interpretation of geography have changed
over time.
Preparation for the activity
Have students work alone or in small groups. Students should understand what cartography
means and should have a reasonably good sense of when European explorers discovered
different lands so they can put the origin and date of each map within a historical context.
They may need to research some dates in the history of world exploration as they start to
compare the maps.
Presenting their findings
Have students present their work in the form of a table comparing their impressions about
the different maps. If possible, have students make brief presentations of their work to other
groups of students or to the entire class at the conclusion of the assignment. Next, have students
use a blank sheet of paper to make a map of their own. Make sure they pick an area that they
are familiar with and have them think about the level of detail they should include in the map.
Student-facing materials
In the following pages we provide detailed instructions, a group of map images, and a graphic
organizer to help students compare the different maps in this activity.
BIG HISTORY PROJECT / UNIT 8 COMPARING MAPS
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2. 8
COMPARING MAPS
Introduction
Cartography is the science of mapmaking. Maps come in all types and can represent any scale.
Think about mapping your house or even your room and then imagine mapping your neighborhood, your city or town, or even your entire state or region. When people started to learn about
foreign lands and the geography of Earth, cartographers started to map the whole world.
In the early days of cartography, maps often depicted unknown regions with fanciful images
and some maps guessed at the shape of lands beyond what was known. As people began to
learn more about the world, the details in maps became more precise.
Your goal in this activity is to compare a selection of maps from different times and places.
Afterwards, you’ll make your own map! Pick a place you are familiar with, such as your school
or your neighborhood. Think about the level of detail you should include in your map and think
about the different ways that your map will portray the things you know about the places shown.
Directions
Do some preliminary research on cartography and the history of mapmaking
Familiarize yourself with some of the rough dates when people in Afro-Eurasia learned
about other regions in the world (e.g., when did the first Europeans land in the Americas?)
Look closely at the maps and use the table provided to compare them
Discuss your findings with your group or your class
Use a blank sheet of paper to draw and label your own map
Compare your map with those of your classmates and explain some of the choices you
had to make while drawing your map
BIG HISTORY PROJECT / UNIT 8 COMPARING MAPS
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6. BIG HISTORY PROJECT / UNIT 8 COMPARING MAPS
What do you think
the cartographer
was trying to
accomplish? What
clues on the map
suggest this?
What is the
historical context
of these maps?
How are these
maps different?
How are these
maps similar?
Ptolemy’s world map
Comparing Maps
Al-Idrisi’s world map
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1546 world map
1562 world map
Modern world map