Thursday, February 10, 2011

Mapmaking



Lily and Gabe have embarked on a project together. They are making a LARGE map of British Columbia, filling in mountains, rivers, lakes, cities and whatever else we can think of. I initially just thought it would be fun for them to work together on a Social Studies project but it's really much harder than I anticipated. Drawing things to any sort of scale is extremely difficult even though we are using grid paper. And although we have lots of maps of Canada, several geography book - a couple of which are devoted exclusively to Canada - and seemingly lots of resources we are having trouble finding a good detailed map of BC.

On another note - I've been abysmal about updating this blog and now it really needs to be devoted to the educational endeavours of all three kids. So, I'm going to attempt to overhaul the whole thing. The goal was for this to be a log of Lily's schoolwork and I would still like it to serve that purpose -only for all of them!
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