I checked out a really cool book about map activities from the library the other day, and it has inspired a whole homeschool unit! So today in homeschool land we had a lesson about maps and their scale. I made a grid using a very inexpensive, unpainted wooden picture frame I bought at the craft store. I painted it and added number stickers and gold string at 2” intervals. I sent the kids off to gather some objects that would fit under the frame and this is what we came up with:
I gave the kids grid paper that had 1” boxes and we learned how to draw what we observe in one box at a time. Baila said it reminded her of battleship! Here she is working the grid:
