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Paper Aeroplane Testing Lab
Three designs, one tape measure, and an argument about which flies furthest.
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Map Your Street
Walk your road and draw it properly, to scale, from memory.
An outdoor and indoor activity in two halves, and it changes how they see a street they walk down daily.
ما تحتاجه
- paper
- pencil
- a clipboard or book to lean on
طريقة التنفيذ
- Walk the length of your street slowly, counting paces between landmarks.
- Note what is there: postbox, tree, corner shop, drain covers.
- At home, draw the map using the pace counts to get the spacing roughly right.
- Add a key and a north arrow.
- Walk it again with the map and correct anything wrong.
لماذا هذا مفيد لهم
Converting a walked distance into a drawn one is early scaling, and it is much more concrete than doing the same on paper. Returning to check the map against reality is the step that turns it from drawing into surveying.
التعديل حسب العمر
5 to 6 yearsDraw the five things they remember, in the right order.
11 to 12 yearsUse a proper scale, such as one centimetre to ten paces.
السلامة
Pavement only, adult present, and stop counting at crossings.
نصيحة للترتيب
Pin the map up somewhere.
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