Mrs. Yollis coordinates the rental of this incredible learning tool for her district. Click here to learn more about how to rent a map for your school.
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What do you notice about the Asian visitors to our blog?
Where are some of the bigger dots?
Can you name a country that has visited our blog?
Why are there so few in the north?
It was fun to create a human ClustrMap!
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Each Giant Map comes with a trunk full of resources!
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We looked closely at the compass rose. Then we practiced traveling north, south, east or west. Knowing direction is important on a map!
Next it was time to explore. What did you locate in Asia?
Did you walk a major river? Did you stand or sit inside an Asian country? How did one Asian country compare to another?
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Here we are seated along the border between Europe and Asia. Who can name the natural features that separate the two continents?
Some people stood in two continents at the same time!
Next it was time to stand on the equator! The equator is an imaginary line of latitude that separates the northern and southern hemispheres. Do we live north or south of the equator?
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We played some of the games that came with the map. Each team (red, blue, yellow, and green) was given a stack of country cards. The object of the game was to be the first to place a cone on the correct country.
A red rope with knots came with the map. Each knot measured 500 miles.
We used the scale rope to measure distance. The longer the rope, the farther away the county.
The yellow team was a long way away from Vietnam.
The red team was quite close to Yemen.
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What body of water did you stand in?
Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, or the Arctic Ocean?
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Some years, Mrs. Yollis made movies using the Giant Traveling Maps!
Giant Traveling Map of Africa
Giant Traveling Map of North America
The Giant Map of Asia
Which continent would you visit and why?
What was your favorite activity on the map?
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