(click title for Wikipedia entry on maps)
The school handed out a xerox of a subway map in the homework packet this week - with the color coding that is so vital to reading the map missing. It was a bit confusing, and so we went to the MTA website to link to the original map, and printed it so Taiyo could understand something about how maps convey information using symbols and color coding to simplify what would otherwise be an overwhelming visual experience, as the following comparison demonstrates. Other maps following Taiyo's interests are also included:
First the Xerox map included in the homework:
This is the same subway map located on the MTA website, and it is available as a pdf download by clicking on the map:
Google Maps
This is the Google map of the Earth School. Click on the plus button till you see the Earth School close enough to almost see inside Christine's classroom. Then drag the map till you see the playground and your house!
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Other maps that Taiyo explored:
Manhattan Bus map
Topological Map of Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskill Mountain Range, which Taiyo will climb this year.
Treasure Map with an interesting treasure hunting story to explain it. (This is the first thing that Taiyo asked for)
A site map of Queen Anne's Revenge, a different kind of map detailing Blackbeard's ship, sunk in North Carolina near Surf City, a beach that Taiyo knows well.
Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Meuseum of Art. Maps are not limited to spacial relations, as this example brings in time.
Map of the mind. Maps can leave the time space realm all together with conceptual maps that attempt to capture thought, for example.
And libraries attempt to map knowledge with the Dewey Decimal system, for example, and proceed to organize all books accordingly. We will visit the library to see just how this is done!
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