The students are almost ready to tackle the summative assessment which they will start in the next couple of weeks. Already they have been inquiring into and finding out about the many systems we use to locate ourselves and find our way around.
They have worked with globes, atlases and a range of different maps including google earth during ICT lessons. In maths they have made connections by working with coordinates, compass points and directions, right angles and scale.
We are just beginning to work with how people have organised the earth as a whole. Here is some of the vocabulary we will be using in the next few days:
lines of longitude
lines latitude
Equator
Greenwich Meridian
International Date Line
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
North Pole
South Pole
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Continents
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
