Wk 16 Homework Map Drawing

Week 16 Homework: Map Drawing Think about how you want your final map to look. ~Do you want to use colors? Use color pencils! ~Do you want to add little extra drawings of ships, sea monsters, compass rose, or Poseidon with his Triton if you have time? ~Practice drawing them now! HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK: TEST yourself by drawing from memory!!! Then get an Atlas to correct it. Draw one world map from MEMORY each day, using the paper I gave you. Final poster board size will be 17 X 22. Practice: 1. Clearly defined shape of the continents and islands (sri lanka, iceland etc.) Do not label the continents! 2. Proportion 3. Island groupings of Melanesia/ Micronesia/ Polynesia (angles)labeled. 4. label any countries etc. from MEMORY- then go back to add more or correct 5. List of Watery things to label. You will have this list with you when you draw the final map. 6. Major great circles -5 draw these on- know what areas they go across. ~Equator ~Prime Meridian ~Arctic Circle ~Tropic of Capricorn ~Tropic of Cancer DUE: 4 world maps- it is OK if there are erasing marksYou SHOULD have erasing marks- none of you can draw the continents perfectly on the first try. YET! ;o) Watery things to label: North Pacific South Pacific Atlantic Indian Ocean Bay of Bengal Arabian Sea Bearing Sea- not straight Arctic Ocean Waddell Sea South China Sea ANY OTHER WATERY THING IS EXTRA CREDIT (red sea, lakes, gulfs etc…..)