Primary / Secondary Mapping Skills Unit.......................

Main Activity

Question: How could we represent our desk on a piece of paper? How can we make it look just as it does in real life?e use a scale to reduce the drawing. Lets use a scale of 1 cm on your A4 paper = 10 cm in real life.

So my classroom desks at St Peter's are 60 cm long and 120 cm wide. If we are to draw a scale drawing what size would we draw it?6 cm by 12cm)

Your Next Task

We are now going to draw our classroom and some of the furniture as a scale drawing. As a class, return to the spreadsheet of the classroom furniture you completed for lesson 1. We are now going to decide as a class on the scale we shall use to draw our map.

Map size ____ CM = in REAL LIFE _______ CM

Now draw your map

Plenary

• If we use a scale of 1cm = 25cm in real life, what would the scale measurements of these objects be?
• The height of a student school desk ...
• The width of the teacher's desk ...
• The depth of the [ ] cupboard ....