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Congratulations! You have Just been hired as the newest cartographer, or map
creator, at HMH Maps inc, Your first. Job is to design an imaginary island that
would be amazing to live on! You may want, to create a theme around your isiand
to help you in naming some of the Features of your newest home. Be as creative
Gs possible and don’t be afraid to ask questions or think outside the box
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1) An Original Name: - =
+ Think of a name for your island.
* This should be creative and should heip guide the theme for your isiand.
* Put the name of your isiand at the top of your map,
2)Landforms: -
Include JO of the following landforms on your map.
* They should be represented in symbols. These symbols will be explained in your
LEGEND (see #3)
+. Each landform must be NAMED. If you need help, you may use your social studies
textbook or (after asking permission), use Kiddie com to search up examples of
landform names,
:
mountains rivers lakes
guif desert forest
swamp canyon glacier
lagoon plateau volcano
prairie valley Peninsula3) Legend/Key:
+ List out all of the symbols on
your island
« What landforms did you include?
* How did you represent them?
* Put all of your symbols in a box
* Write the word “Legend” at the
top. This should be NEAT.
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Compass Rose 4) Compass Rose
* Draw a compass rose off
to the side of your island
* Include the directions that
you would normally find on
acompass rose: N, 8, E,
W, NW, NE, SE, SW
5) Color {Neatness
". Like any good map, your island map should be COLORFUL and NEAT. This
project cannot be done in one class period and it CANNOT be burned in
black ¢ white. Your maps should be creative dnd well thought through.
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