This afternoon in 3V we have been exploring different maps of Italy to find out how different maps can provide us with different information about a country. We looked at a wide range of examples, from a simple outline, to a tourist map, to a topographical map.
Once we had compared all the maps, we looked more closely to see how many different geographical features we could spot. We learnt that hills and mountains are shown by variation in colour on the map, and we used a key to locate other features, such as rivers, lakes and even volcanoes!
We then created our own maps of Italy, labelling the different features and devising our own keys to the symbols we had chosen to use for each geographical feature.
Finally, we looked at a map of the UK and compared it with the Italian map, in order to spot similarities and differences between the two.
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