Florida's Geography: A 3-D Map Project
Here is an updated post on this project as two of our proactive students have turned in their project already, which is over one week early! Way to go, Andy and Jake, for producing fabulous projects and providing us with additional examples to benefit from!
Here is an updated post on this project as two of our proactive students have turned in their project already, which is over one week early! Way to go, Andy and Jake, for producing fabulous projects and providing us with additional examples to benefit from!
Jake creatively used cardboard to create his Florida elevation. (His project is shown above on the right.) The Florida Uplands are distinguished from the East Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastal Plains by being given a higher elevation (more cardboard). He also added paint and marker. Dental floss was used to create the latitudinal and longitudinal lines.
Andy made his Florida elevation with clay and then added his detail with paint, computer images text, and glitter to make the ocean and gulf sparkle. (His project is shown above on the left.)Andy even thought to include Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldog labels. Andy, you forgot to add the Florida Gator logo and location though! I am sure that was just an oversight! :-)
Our students were assigned this three-dimensional map project on Monday of last week. Guidelines and a rubric for this project are in each student's Passport. We hope that all of our students enjoy this opportunity to think creatively and artistically about the geography of the beautiful and unique state we live in, as a way of culminating our six week study of Florida Geography! Projects are due in class by Tuesday, October 21st!
Here is another example of a clay created project from a former 4th grade student who is now in 5th grade.
5 comments:
I remember doing these kind of maps when I was in elementary school and I always loved it. It is so much fun. When I walk through the classes now I'd have to say the maps DEFINE creativity because every one is unique even though they contain basically the same content!
Hello Forth Grade students and teachers! My name is Janine Patterson and I'm from Regina, Saskatchewan. I go to the University of Regina and I'm taking Elementary Education. I look forward to seeing what your class is up to and getting to know you all better! Your map assignment looks like a lot of fun and the two already finished look amazing! Good job!
Mine is coming along great!!!!
~Sydney ML#9
Everybody is going good with there projet.-Kiala
I'm a first grade teacher in Madrid, Spain surfing the Internet looking for ideas for teaching maps and globes, and your project has got me thinking! Way to go, kids!
-Ms. Miller
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