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Posted: Dec 09 2009 at 5:21am | IP Logged Quote Erin

I've anyone is like me and keeps thinking "We must do more map work" I can highly recommend creating your own mega maps. We have been having so much fun making them and studying geography. Also an affordable way to finally have wall maps.

You choose what size you want to make your map and select accordingly. Laying the sheets out is rather like doing a jigsaw puzzle. I asked a local architect for discarded plans to glue our sheets onto.

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Posted: Dec 09 2009 at 5:35am | IP Logged Quote stellamaris

Wow, what a great resource! I had painted one hall wall a deep medium blue for oceans, and I have been gradually adding the continents one at a time as we study them. But every time I added a continent, it was a work out! First, I had to figure out how to enlarge a blackline map so it would be the right size...lots of fiddling around with the copier. Then, I had to copy it in sections or take it to the copier store. Then, trace it on colored posterboard, cut, and post. The hardest part has been getting each continent the right (relative) size, since not all the blacklines are done in the same scale. Will this site ever save me a lot of time and work!

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Posted: Dec 09 2009 at 7:10am | IP Logged Quote Paula in MN

I've had that site bookmarked forever and I never knew about the Mega Maps. Thank you Erin!

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Posted: Dec 09 2009 at 8:56am | IP Logged Quote EmilyC

What an awesome idea!! We're going to be reading SovietTrek when we start back in Jan. and this will be a great way to track their journey through Russia. Thanks for sharing!

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Posted: Dec 15 2009 at 1:31pm | IP Logged Quote Erin

Caroline

I love your idea, I'm now looking at my walls considering...Actually when I read what you have done it put me in mind of the father in Cheaper by the Dozen, I always was intrigued by the fact that he painted various 'facts' on the walls of their summer lighthouse.

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Posted: Dec 15 2009 at 3:42pm | IP Logged Quote stellamaris

OK, Erin, you'll love this one, too....I made miniature copies of images that represented different books we had read. Picture books were easy, but for longer books you could also find or draw a small 1" (2.5 cm) circle picture. We posted these on the map where these stories occurred. We also posted pictures of important landmarks and put major rivers on with Wiki sticks and just drew on the major mountain ranges. We stuck up pictures of indigenous animals as well. I got the picture circle idea from Five in a Row, and just expanded it to cover our various geography-based stories. Unfortunately, we had completed Africa and were in the middle of Europe when we moved to a rental home...but I'll do it again when we get settled in a permanent location. It was so fun to do it, and also to go back over all we had learned just by looking at the wall!
I'm sure you could come up with a lot more ideas!

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Posted: Dec 15 2009 at 4:17pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom

I wonder if you couldn't buy a large piece of canvas like from tarps.com and paint it the same blue you would paint a wall somewhere (if you still liked the whole wall idea) and mount it so it was portable (maybe to slats). Then you wouldn't have to lose it every time you moved.

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Erin, I finally used it! We are doing a presentation on Louisiana in February and now EVERYONE will see the map!

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Posted: Dec 19 2009 at 1:44pm | IP Logged Quote Erin

Fantastic

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