Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition

“MyTen Choices of Maps by Children from Ten Different Countries”

ECI 524 (601)

1/17/2010

Kyungah Kim

“The Americas, Our Continent” by María Agostina Raffí (Age 9) from Argentina (Instituto San Luis Gonzaga, Buenos Aires)

• I like this map, because the student used thread as the main material. Just like the thread is connected through all around the world, our world is connected everywhere—by people, culture, and so on.

“Save the World” by Kevin Wu (Age 9) from Canada (Walton Elementary School, Coquitlam BC)

• It is interesting to see that the student drew each part of the region in details. Especially, different region has different resources, buildings, and environments, just like our real world has various kind of resources and environments all around the world.

“Many Nations, One World” by Alexandra Klitzsch (Age 10)from Germany (Grundschule Gotha-Siebleben, Gotha)

• The most thing I like about this map is that the student drew all the different people from different regions, and also included the animals from other parts of the world, as our family or friend, who lives in the same world with us.

“Untitled” by Dura Mohammad (Age 15) from Qatar (School unknown)

• I like the fact that this student expressed the earth as a puzzle, and all the people from different part of the earth are trying to finish it together. In my opinion, this map represents that people all around the world should work together to solve the world's problem, just like the people in this map is working on the puzzle together.

“One World, Many Nations” by Sofia le Roux (Age 15) from South Africa (Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck, Cape Town)

• This map is including lots of things—map, national flags, and all the people from different country actually helping each other and supporting our world. It feels like this map is telling us to get together for our world, just like the people in the bottom of the map.

“We Are the World” by Malin & Louise (Age 11) from Sweden (Maria Elementary School, Stockholm)

• I like the fact that everybody in the map is smiling and holding hands together. Just like the world is round, there's no beginning or ending—everywhere is the same. If everybody could have a smile on their faces and get together with each other as this map, world will be always in peace.

“Many Nations, One World” by Sophia Liu (Age 9) from United Kingdom (St. Hughs Primary School, Timperley, Cheshire)

• I like the fact that each region of the map is filled with different kinds of national flags, which are also about the same sizes. This may be interpreted as people from all around the world could live in all the different regions of the world, and everybody is equal no matter where they are actually from, or wherever they go.

“Many Nations, One World” by Natasha Mahapatro (Age 14) from USA (Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Haert, Bellevue, WA)

• Flame may look just red, but it actually has different colors, such as yellow, orange, and so on. Just like the flame of different colors inside, the world includes different parts of different people. Also, the student is trying to give us the message to change our attitude and open our minds to other countries.

“Many Cows, One Milk” by Chan Mi Lee (Age 11)from Malaysia (Int'l School of Kuala Lumpur, Ampang, Selangor)

• This map has unexpected picture, but it still has a point. We do not think about the looks of cow when we drink milk. Every cow produces same milk. No matter where we are from, we are the same people. Also, the pattern on the cow's body looks like world map.

“The Sun and the Moon Are Shining To Our Earth” by Lucie Mertová (Age 10) from Czech Republic (ZŠ a MŠ, Jindřichov)

• It does not matter which country we came from. There is sunshine and moon light every part of the earth. All of us came from the same one place—mother earth, where we see sunshine in the morning and moon light at night.