Our class maps

We had to draw a birds eye view of our classroom. we got into groups of four and drew our maps, it was tricky!

It had to be accurate and neat.it was hard because you all had to agree with each other and you had to listen and involve others in your group.
What our class thought...

• sharing ideas/joining ideas.
• Hard to fit things into the space.
• windows where hard to draw.
• 3-D might be easier to draw.
• thinking skills where used.
• Hard but fun.
• measuring-rulers-sizes.
• too much space.
• thing were too small or too big.
• cooperating was hard.
• thinking like a bird was hard.
• hard making things smaller.

by Yasmin and Elsa.

Orange World

We took an orange and a marker pen. We had to draw on the orange the continents of the World.

Next the fun part.

We peeled our orange and had to make the pieces of skin 2-D (flat) on piece of paper. We were meant to join up the continents but the pen came off the orange so it didn't work very well.

Here there are spaces in between the orange peel so it needs to be joined up.

Here is the orange peel sorted up into 2-D. It is good but not perfect. There are still some spaces. If the marker didn't come off we could have made a better map of the world. It was hard to make the World flat, almost impossible. It is not easy to turn a 3-D World into a 2-D map.

Why don't you try this yourself? Make sure you use permanent markers!