Mapping for Your SocietySubtitle

Mapping

• You have learned many mapping skills, that you will have to use for your society…– Key/Legend– Compass rose– Map Title– Symbols and Colors– Physical Features

Elements of Your Society’s Map (2D or 3D)

• Manmade Structures– Buildings: schools, hospitals, police station…– Bridges– Roads

• Physical Features (at least 3!)– Lakes, rivers, ocean, bays– Mountains*Forests, deserts, etc. can be included but are not

really physical features

Examples Of Maps

Examples of Maps

Example of Map

Examples of Maps

100% Exemplary on the Map (15 points)

• Our map not only included all of the required elements, our group made sure that each one was particularly well thought out, well placed and carefully done.

• The map of our society was very well planned and designed.

The Expository Writing Piece

• Is your society an island? Landlocked by mountains? Between two rivers? This might be a good place to begin…Remember your hamburger structure!

You might start something like this…Ferentopia is ideally located in the Pacific Ocean

just south of Fiji. Palm trees line our shores and two rivers intersect in the center of the island…

To Do TodayDivide and choose your tasks:

Task 1: Expository writing piece (1-2 paragraphs), explaining the location of your society and why you have structured your society the way you did.

Task 2: Create a map of your society, with all the elements from the rubric (compass rose, title…)