1. Mapskills
How do we use maps?

2. If you click on the globe you will return to the Contents Page
What are maps?
Compasses
Using Direction
Map symbols
4 Figure Grid Refs
6 Figure Grid Refs
Finding heights
Distance & Scale
Describing Routes
Practice
You can click on each of the Contents and you will be taken straight to this place
If you click on the globe you will return to the Contents Page

3. What are maps? What do you see on the cow?
Maps are a way for us to see what the world looks like. It is a method that geographers use to locate different things and to help us find our way from one place to another

4. FACT: You have probably all used maps at some time in your life!
Have a brainstorming session with a partner to try and think where you have used a map in the past

5. Look at the following 5 maps and write down what and where you think they show

6. Map 1: Where is this and what does it show?

7. Map 2: Where is this and what does it show?

8. Map 3: Where is this and what does it show?

9. Map 4: Where is this and what does it show?

10. Map 5: Where is this and what does it show?

11. So where are those places?
Map 4 is a street map of Ballymena, drawn in 1995
Map 5 is a map of the Ballymena area towards Slemish and shows some of the local physical features
Map 1 is the Mappa Geographica which is a map of the world and was drawn in 1703
Map 2 is Northern Ireland and the map shows the main towns and roads
Map 3 is a Satellite Image of the World taken in 2001
Did you get them all right?

12. So, What are maps?
Maps are used to help us to represent a place. It allows us to look at the location and surrounding area and environment of a place.

13. Compasses

14. Compasses are used to show the direction of places on maps
Compasses are used to show the direction of places on maps. This is very important so that we can know how to use the map to move from one place to another.
There are 2 types of compass that you should use

15. The 4 point compass The 8 point compass North West East Never South
Wheat
Eat
The 8 point compass N NW NE
Shredded E W SE SW S

16. Using Direction
When people move from one place to another they will describe their movement by using the directions that allowed them to travel.
To practice this there are a few exercises over the next pages to help you to practice your direction-finding skills.

17. Why do we use symbols?
When drawing a map to scale it is important to include as much detail as possible – however not all the detail will fit on the map so we have to use a key of different symbols, abbreviations and letters to represent the main items on the map

18. Think about it this way
Imagine that you have to draw a map that shows the route from your house to the school – but you are not allowed any words . . .this means that we need to use symbols to show what we would pass on the way

19. Do you know any map symbols?
Draw a symbol on the board and then write below what it is!

20. How can you describe where these places are using a Grid?
To find the grid square that each of the symbols are found in –
Go along the corridor and then up the stairs
ACROSS AND THEN UP
Along = 02
Up = 11 GR = 02 11 14 13 12 11

21. Answer these questions in your books14
Is in square _____ 13 12 11