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Map Making: Explore and Design a Functional Space Station
Completed by 68 learners
Ages 7-12
Live One-Time Class
Live video meetings
Meets once
3-8 learners per class
50 min
What's included
1 live meeting
50 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
In this class we explore existing functional space stations and discuss how space technology evolved. We then examine pictures of futuristic designs of space stations in films and games and look at the amenities necessary for astronauts to spend a long time in space. We will draw a map of a three-level space station and consider what functions we need to include in our design. Your learner will think through design choices, deciding if the station is floating or stationed on a planet, and what essential criteria these options require. We will discuss visual solutions on how to best represent our individual ideas on the map, for example through scale, colour coding or compass coordinates. This class provides an imaginative framework for your child to explore the world around them and learn graphic ways of representing their spatial ideas. Through the activity of drawing maps your child learns to solve problems and to present ideas and solutions graphically. They will pick up map reading skills but the focus is on exploring visual representations of a specific space. At the end of the class we will look at the design of our space station and explain its functionality. My other Map Making classes you might like: * Discover and Draw Underground Cities * Explore and Draw Solar Systems and Galaxies ** ON-GOING Map Making Club: we draw a new map each week
Learning Goals
1. Learn about space stations
2. Develop the imagination and learn graphic design communication skills.
3. Learn concepts of scale, measurement, and the frame of reference for maps.
Benefits of map making are:
- Topographical skills: Children are able to use directional labels such as north, south, east, and west
- Projective skills: Children are able to use their own position to determine a location and its relationship to other elements
- Euclidian skills: Children can accurately perceive spatial relationships such as those that are used on a paper map
Other Details
Supply List
Bring your favourite art supplies and a large sheet of paper to draw on! Specifics: Paper: A3 is ideal (you can stick 2 A4 sheets together) Pencil and erasure. Colouring pencils or markers. A ruler and optional protractor.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a qualified schoolteacher and have taken many school classes to explore geographical sites around London and then map them. I am also a trained artist and storyteller and bring geography and cultural studies alive through images and narratives. I have worked as a graphic web designer and taught visual communication to teenagers. Through the activity of making maps we will be activating the imagination and learning how to present ideas and solutions graphically.
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