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This map-making project concludes second grade's art lessons for the year. This project fits with the map skills unit students have just completed in social studies. In Art, students learned about cartography- the art of making maps! I started the lesson by showing this 2-minute clip from the Wizard of Oz. It's the scene where Dorothy sees Oz for the very first time. I asked students to imagine that like Dorothy, they were experiencing a new land for the first time. What kind of land would it be? How would things look different? We used these imaginative maps as our inspiration... (Map images are from the Etsy shop PaintandInk.) My kids were SOO excited to begin this project!! Normally this close to summer, students get a little wild and hard to manage, but these second-graders were the most focused I have seen them all year! They LOVED this project! The requirements for the maps were that they had to show both land and water, have a title, and have a legend/key and a compass rose. Anything else was up to them! I wish I'd started this project a little sooner- we didn't have time to finish. I let students take their maps home with them to complete since we ran out of time. Next year I'll start this project a couple of weeks sooner! Here are some of the in-progress map drawings.
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