Maps: Part Three

Next, we thought about how we could draw a picture of our school. This is a very difficult task, made more difficult by Mr. MacLellan's insistence that we couldn't leave the classroom to look! We had to try and remember where everything was, just from our brains.

Here's what we drew. Some people chose an overhead or bird's eye view. Other people chose a side view, as if you could look through the walls. Some people did a combination, using elements of both views combined with other pictorial elements. See if you can tell which views are which!

Maps: Part Two

After discussing what is a map, and looking at some examples of maps, we moved on to making our own maps. First, we made maps of our classroom. We imagined that a giant came and took the roof off of our school. Then, we imagined that we were robins eating worms out of the grass. Yum! Then a predator came, and we had to fly up into the sky. If we looked down from this bird's eye view, what would our classroom look like?

Here is what we drew:

Maps: part one

We are learning about maps! After a discussion, we decided that a map is a view of a place (most often from above) that gives you information about where things are located. Many maps have much more information on them. Most maps have some sort of key so they can give a lot of information without becoming too confusing.

We made a list of some of the places you could make a map of. Here are some of our ideas:

School

Amusement park

United States

Treasure

Museum

Zoo

Campground

Hotel or resort

Underwater

Underground

Mining

Garden

Sky

Maze

Inside walls

Then, we looked at some mystery maps. We had to discuss with a partner or group what it was a map of, and who would use that map. Some of the maps were easy, but some were very difficult! Can you figure out what these maps are?

Programming day one

Today we learned a little bit about writing computer programs. A program is a code that tells a computer what to do. The code gives the computer a set of tasks to do in order.

Professional computer programmers use different programming languages, such as C++, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Perl, and Python. We used a simple language we called AMB (I don't know why we called it that, we just did.) In AMB, you give commands with a series of symbols.