Activities in task 2 and other interesting things

Hi! I am Mari Carmen and this week I am the journalist of the group.
Apart from the questions of maps projections, treasure hunt and media distortion that we have ansewered in the prensentation, the teacher also gave us two activities related with cartographic projections to helped us in our work. In the first activity, we had to fill the gaps with five words and these are the ones that we have chosen

A GLOBE is the only “perfect” representation of the Earth’s surface. All maps are distorted in four major ways. The four ways maps are distorted is by the SHAPE, SIZE, LATITUDE, and LONGITUDE of the landmasses being mapped. In order to make maps, projections must be made, and different projections require different distortions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And in the second activity, we had to fill a table of the different maps projections and this table helped us to understand and know better the differences between the three types of maps projections.

To complete the gaps in the first activity we have found the information in this webpage:

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_distortion_on_a_map_and_why_does_it_occur

 
 

And to complete the table, we have looked for information in the following webpages:

http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~jochen/GTECH361/lectures/lecture04/concepts/Map%20coordinate%20systems/Mercator%20projection.htm

http://www.icsm.gov.au/mapping/map_projections.html

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/projection-mercator/
http://global.britannica.com/science/Mercator-projection

http://global.britannica.com/science/cylindrical-projection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_projection

 

ONE MORE THING!!!!!! I recommend you to see this video that explains in a very simple way the maps projections and their characteristics, so it is very easy to understand them

 

 

And I also recommend you to visit this page, it shows how to make a treasure hunt for kids and I think it is very interesting and useful for us as future teachers.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Amazing-Treasure-Hunt-
for-Kids

 

Hope it can be useful for you too and that you enjoy it! See you!

Mari Carmen