Feb. 10 – Cartography Continued

Today we did our first Current Events presentations.  We discussed what made for good questions and good presentations.

Next we corrected the "What's wrong with this map" practice.

Handout: Map with mistakes

Then we continued with the powerpoint on cartography.

Powerpoint: Cartography Slides (longitude and latitude, slides 9-18)

Here's a link to the cartoon with the map projections that I showed in class:

• http://xkcd.com/977/