Map Reading
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A good skill to have is map-reading. Whether the participant is
interested in just knowing better where things are in his or her city, or
he/she wants to be able to plan a vacation across the country or abroad, map
reading can come in handy.
The SARAW participant can learn many skills from map-reading including:
- alphabetization
- directions
- calculating distances
- recognizing bodies of water and other landmarks
- navigating from point A to point B
- understanding symbols
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You might want to start with a city or provincial map because many of
the street names or community names will be familiar to the participant. You
could also create maps of a familiar place like a:
- shopping mall
- library
- museum
- park
Following are some possible activities. Use your creativity to come up with
more.
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Possible Activities
Write your street name on the WRITE Program. Find your street on a city
map. Write down the five street names closest to your street. In the WRITE
program, alphabetize the street names.
Using the WRITE program and a city map, figure out how to get from your
house to your favorite shopping mall. Use direction words like North, South,
East and West in your directions.
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Using a map of the province, find three places that you recognize
besides your home-town. Calculate the distances from your home-town to each of
the three places using the distance calculator on the map.
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Using a map of the province, find a town that is close to: mountains
(or hills), a river, a lake, a National Park. Write down the name of each town
or city and the name what it is close to.
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