Location, Location, TREASURE! (Maps post #2)

Our third unit for this year is on Where We are in Place and Time.

Grade 3 and 4 are exploring the Central Idea that maps enable us to orientate ourselves locally and globally.

Grade 3 has continued their inquiry into Interpreting maps. 

We used Scot Ritchie's popular introductory text Follow That Map! as we inquired into the form and function of maps. To develop our research skills, we took notes on map terminology.
- from Aira

We were also inspired by Captain Firebeard's School for Pirates (which we read as a class read-aloud).



So... to show and apply our developing understanding of maps and how they are interpreted, learners created TREASURE MAPS!

- from Miller

And... we invited artist and educator Lubin Nepomuceno to share his papier mache` expertise with us. Combined groups of Gr.3s & 4s applied these skills to creating topographical landscape maps.










Next, learners formed groups to research even more different kinds of maps. Each group took on the responsibility of becoming an expert on their map type.




Learning was shared on a communal poster.




Grade 3 will soon begin exploring the other Line of Inquiry for this unit how maps help us comprehend events.

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