{"id":210,"date":"2013-01-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-01-02T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:00:00","slug":"maps-to-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Maps to scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out a really cool book about map activities from the library the other day, and it has inspired a whole homeschool unit!&#160; So today in homeschool land we had a lesson about maps and their scale.&#160; I made a grid using a very inexpensive, unpainted wooden picture frame I bought at the craft store.&#160; I painted it and added number stickers and gold string at 2\u201d intervals.&#160; I sent the kids off to gather some objects that would fit under the frame and this is what we came up with:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013010217.30.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2013-01-02 17.30.07\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"484\" alt=\"2013-01-02 17.30.07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013010217.30.07_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I gave the kids grid paper that had 1\u201d boxes and we learned how to draw what we observe in one box at a time.&#160; Baila said it reminded her of battleship!&#160; Here she is working the grid:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013010217.29.57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2013-01-02 17.29.57\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"484\" alt=\"2013-01-02 17.29.57\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013010217.29.57_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out a really cool book about map activities from the library the other day, and it has inspired a whole homeschool unit!&#160; So today in homeschool land we had a lesson about maps and their scale.&#160; I made a grid using a very inexpensive, unpainted wooden picture frame I bought at the craft [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,5,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/tricia3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}