Today we learned the major components of a map. They included a scale, a compass, a key, and the title. I made a short slide show that had some interactions followed by a short activity. Mike was going to tell the BLAH story that helped the students remember the spheres of influence of the Earth.
I thought that I would have about 20-25 minutes to complete my activity. After the slides the students were each given a copy of the school map and told to make me a map headed towards their next classroom. The map had to include the four components that we had talked about.
A few things went wrong here:
- First, I only had 12 minutes to do everything. Go through the slides, grasp their level of understanding, hand out the maps, model my own map, and help the students get started. I got really flustered at this point.
- Afterwards Mike said that I did not stress enough that they needed to put the four main things on their map and would probably get some maps tomorrow that did not have those things on them. I'll see what they look like tomorrow.
- I don't know if this activity would have gone better if I had had more time, but I think we could have at least made it more fun by using the classroom set of colored pencils and drawing on the presentation board a little longer so that key words would be latched onto in a better way- then maybe they would have remembered the point of the drawing activity.
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