My sons 3rd grade class has been learning about maps and geography over the past few weeks. I think they are currently all working on a hands on map projects creating 3d maps of the Bay Area with modeling clay and other materials. The teacher knows I'm a cartographer and has asked me to stop by and talk to the kids about what I do.
Although I have no problems talking about GIS and map making to graduates, post docs, and faculty at Stanford, I'm totally intimidated by doing the same for a bunch of 9 year olds!
Anybody here ever given the "I'm a map maker" speech to their kids class? What did you talk about? Any good ideas for questions or demos to engage the kids?
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Although I have no problems talking about GIS and map making to graduates, post docs, and faculty at Stanford, I'm totally intimidated by doing the same for a bunch of 9 year olds!
Anybody here ever given the "I'm a map maker" speech to their kids class? What did you talk about? Any good ideas for questions or demos to engage the kids?
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