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.

1. Click on the link to Multimap. http://uk2.multimap.com/home.html
2. Enter the Postcode for your house, and click go.
3. A street map should download, with the location of your house circled.
4. Select scale 1:50 000. An OS map of your local area should now download, again with your house circled.
5. Copy & paste this map into word or Desktop Publishing software such as Publisher.
6. Use software tools to label places you know in your local area onto the map.
7. Mark on your map your route from your home to school (you may need to select a different scale of map from Multimap.)
8. Label your old primary school on the map
9. What is the 6 figure grid reference of the following places your:
   • House
   • Secondary school
   • Old primary school
   • Nearest major shopping centre
10. Look carefully at the map of your local area.
11. List the physical and human features that you can see on the map