World Map Project

Last week Kym and I started a new project at one of the local junior high schools. The world map project is a popular Peace Corps project. It has been time consuming (which is a good thing for a Peace Corps volunteer) and very rewarding. We have both discovered hidden artistic qualities. Actually, the project is set up so that anyone can look like an artist just by drawing within a 3 inch block one at a time. The first step is to measure out your map. We made ours 5 feet high by 10 feet wide. We then created an ocean with blue paint and filled in the block. Next, we drew grid lines to create 2.5 inch blocks. In our instruction book titled "World Map Project" (how original) a page by page layout of a world map drawing within a scaled down grid system allowed us to draw our version of this great Earth of ours. Also in the book is a list of all the countries and their territories that all correspond to a color. So all that was left was an adult size color by number. We have all but finished labeling the countries and are thinking of drawing a Ghana map along with it. I have included some pictures to help with a visualization.