Geography- Mapping and Mountains

The Class 5D Space Research Agency have successfully landed on Mars! The research teams have mapped the terrain of the Mars surface including the mountains and craters.

In order to do this, the groups worked hard to understand the main features of maps (BOLTS- border, orientation, legend, title, scale).  They especially worked hard to understand how to calculate the scale of a model size object compared to the real size object. The teams also learnt about contour lines as a way to represent mountains. They created contour lines on the model Mars surface, then mapped it.

They also did research and created fantastic posters of our beautiful mountains right here on Earth.

Class 5D research team- Excellent work!

Creating a scale model of a giraffe and calculating the scale of the model to it's real size.

Making scale models

A tiny computer! teeehee! Working out the scale of this tiny cutie computer to the real size

Calculating the scale of a space shuttle model.

Creating a mountain cross-section from the contour lines on a map.

Making contour lines on the Mars surfaces.

Using a slide-rule to measure the approximate contour heights.

All hands on contours!

Very pretty contours

Contours done and labelled. Now to map them.

A lovely map with a transparent contour map overlay.

Contours Mapped

Getting a birds-eye view.