cascade chennai 29 dec 2012
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On Saturday, 29 December 2012, children from Cascade Resource Centre participated in a 'Roadside Geography!' interaction. Here are glimpses of the activity.TRANSCRIPT
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Cascade Resource CentreChennai
&The Indian Institute of Geographical
StudiesBangalore
‘Roadside geography’Mapping a Chennai Street
Saturday, 29 December 2012
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What we did indoors (1)
• We studied a small extract from a topographic map in a school atlas.
• We learned how features are shown using– Points – Lines – Areas
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What we did outdoors
• We oriented ourselves and the page on which the map is to be drawn using a magnetic compass.
• We started from one end of our street and started plotting buildings, trees (points), roads (lines), and empty plots (areas).
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What we did indoors (2)
• We filled in the legend box on the map sheet showing the symbols and their meanings
• Earlier in the morning, we had watched a documentary (‘The Paradox of the Andes’)
• So, at the end, each kid chose one concept or idea that s/he had learned from the documentary. A word related to it was painted on the kid.
• We all had a lot of fun … and learned so much that textbooks don’t teach us!
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Field help + photo credits (parents):
• Ms Malathi Mahadevan
• Ms Sandhiya Venkatesan
• Ms Rajeswari Bakkiyaraj
Organizer: Ms Vidya Shankar, Montessorian educator, Founder +
Chairperson, Relief Foundation, parent organization of
Cascade Resource Centre, Chennai
Presenter: Dr Chandra Shekhar Balachandran, Geographer.
Founder/Director, The Indian Institute of Geographical
Studies, Bangalore
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This was the first of many forthcoming collaborative
workshops between Cascade and TIIGS to be held in
Chennai and other places.
To organize such interactions in your neighborhood,
contact:
or