1. Aims for today’s lesson:
Scale and Distance
Aims for today’s lesson:
To know and understand what scale is.
To know the three types of scale.
To know how to calculate distance using scale.

2. What’s wrong with these images?

3. Copy and complete using words from the box below.
Maps have to be drawn _____ than real life to fit on a piece of paper. How much smaller they are is shown by the ______. This shows you the _____ distance between places.
real smaller scale

4. SCALE
Relationship between distance on a map or plan and distance in real life.
How can we show it?
Words
Ratio
Line/bar
1:10
1cm to 10cm
This means 1cm on the map = 10cm on the ground. On OS maps the scale is often 1: