GEOGRAPHY:
Hey guys! Today in geography, we reviewed Map Scale and Time Zones. If you are not sure about these, check out the blogs below to find out more. We also learned about "The Great Circle Route." This is kind of a weird thing that we used maps, globes, and string to figure out. Mr.Kameika asked that we put the end of a string on ATLANTA on a map on the overhead. Then the rest of the string was used to show the shortest route an airplane would take to get to, say, TOKYO. This was, obviously, a straight line.
NOW! We used these strings to do the same route on our globes. The shortest routes turned out to be curved instead of straight lines! This is because the world IS NOT FLAT like the map on the board! Flat maps are actually not to scale and show the world distorted in ways that do not perfectly represent size. See the maps below to check this out!
So, why is it that a flight from Los Angeles to Paris (above left) goes in an arch instead of a straight line? Or a flight from Chicago to Beijing, China (below) goes over the North Pole? It looks like a straight line, no?? Well, imagine that this globe was stretched out into a regular flat map.... the line would look like an arch to us then!
WORLD HISTORY:
Hey guys! Today in world history, we finished our final drafts of our Civilization Projects. We did this in the Media Center and you can check out some of the images below from our day. REMEMBER!!! Tomorrow you will judge the work of the other group and they will judge your work and give you a grade!!!
