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ICT Activities - Map
skills
Online enquiry of your local area
Using the map skills you have learnt over
the last term and the Internet attempt the following tasks.
- Click on the link to Multimap. http://uk2.multimap.com/home.html
- Enter the Postcode for your house, and click go.
- A street map
should download, with the location of your house circled.
- Select scale 1:50 000. An OS map of your local area should now
download, again with your house circled.
- Copy & paste this map into word or Desktop
Publishing software such as Publisher.
- Use software tools to label places you know in your local area
onto the map.
- Mark on your map your route from your home to school (you may
need to select a different scale of map from Multimap.)
- Label your old primary school on the map
- What is the 6 figure grid reference of the following places your:
- House
- Secondary school
- Old primary school
- Nearest major shopping centre
- Look carefully at the map of your local area.
- List the physical and human features that you can see on the
map
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