Mapping Our
World: Globes
Chapter 2
Your Experience with Maps
Describe the various ways in
which you have used maps.
Why is it important to use a
map?
Discovery Lab
Have you ever been asked for
directions? If so, you know that it’s
important to include as much
detail as possible so that the person
asking for directions will not get
lost. You also may have realized
that it helps to draw a detailed map
of the destination in question.
Your Task
1. Give verbal directions from your school to your home
to a classmate who does not know where you live.
Include as much detail as possible in your
description.
2. Use a sheet of paper (graph if you have it) and colored
pencils to draw a map from your school to your
home. Include landmarks and other details. Share
with your classmate.
3. Have your classmate also give you a description of
where their home is located in relation to your school
also drawing a map.
The big question???
Which did you find more helpful, the verbal
directions or the map?
Share with class
What kind of information did you include in your
map?
How could you have improved your map?
What details would you have added?
Cartography
The science of mapmaking
Latitude
• Parallel to
equator (0°
latitude)
• Runs like a
ladder (parallel)
• Referred to as
North and
South degrees
latitude
Longitude
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AKA meridians.
East and West Degrees
Longitude.
The prime meridian
represents 0° longitude.
Points west of the prime
meridian are numbered from
0° to 180° west longitude.
The same goes for east
longitude.
Lines are semicircles and
extend vertically from pole to
pole.
How do we write latitude and
longitude locations?
Both latitude and longitude are
needed to precisely locate positions
on Earth.
When writing coordinates, latitude
comes.
TIME ZONES
Earth is divided into 24
time zones.
Why?
Because it takes Earth
About 24 hours to rotate on its axis.