CPWC Day 5 - Using Maps to Understand the World

Objectives:  Review reading notes to check for understanding.  Compare and contrast types of map projections.  Analyze uses of map projections.

Task:  As you come into class please pick up the K-W-L chart from the A-V cart at the front of the room.  While you're completing the K-W portions of the chart, we'll check for homework completion.
Then, we'll spend some time discussing chapter 2, section 2 reading notes.  Next, you'll investigate the development of map-making and map-projections with a historical map study and we'll review locating using latitude and longitude.  Finally, we'll end class with a short writing assignment in which you must take on the role of cartographer.

Homework:

• TODAY - Chapter 1, Section 2 reading notes due in class
• Thursday, January 30 - Geography Skills (Section 3 of chapter 1) notes due in class
• Thursday, January 30 - Geography chapter 1 reading quiz (notes may be used on quiz)
• Friday, January 31 - Foundations Investigation due

Images for historical map study (click on image to go to site)

Image 1:  

This image was copied from Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes. Go to his site at www.astronomynotes.com for the updated and corrected version.

Image 2:

This images is from Wikimedia Commons.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JesuitChineseWorldMapEarly17thCentury.jpg

Image 3:

This images if from: http://www.webexhibits.org/vinland/zoom.php?i=images/middle-map-ptolemy-peninsul.jpg&j=Greenland+as+a+peninsula+extending+from+Europe.+Geographia+of+Claudius+Ptolemy+(ca.+87-150+CE)%2C+by+Wilibald+Pirkheimer.+Ptolemy%27s+map+showed+the+inhabited+world+as+it+was+known+to+the+Greeks+and+Romans+of+about+100-150+CE.+1525%2C+Nuremberg