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Description

Create a simple map of your local area to help someone else reach your favourite (or the most interesting) place.

Courtesy The Schout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/the-cartographer-s-creation/

Resources

30 minutes
A4 paper
Coloured pens or pencils
Sticky dots
Maps of your local area

Instructions

Before you begin
- Think about the size of the map you need. Depending on your local area, some people might travel a longer way to get to your meeting place, so they might not know the local area as well.

- Try to make sure everyone can find their home (or other places they visit a lot) on the map. For some people, this might mean having different maps available, for example, for people who live in different villages.

Plan your map
1. Give everyone a copy of the map of their local area.

2. Everyone should circle a few important places, for example, their current location (probably their meeting place), their home or school, other places they visit often, or other important places in their area. [People’s important places could be a place that’s meaningful to them, somewhere they have fun, somewhere they find interesting, or somewhere they’d like to visit for the first time.]

3. Everyone should choose one of the places they’ve circled to be their destination. This is the place their map will direct people to.

Make your map
1. Everyone should draw the main streets and places in their area onto a sheet of paper. They need to include their meeting place, and their destination.

2. Now everyone has the basic details sorted, they should draw a route from their meeting place to the place of interest. They should think about any details they might need to add to help people follow their map.

3. Once their route is finished, everyone should use coloured dots to mark their other important places (or places they visit often) on their map.

4. Everyone should share their maps with each other. What’s the same? What’s different?


Take it further
Use your maps to go on a walk around your local area. Not only will this put the maps to the test, it will mean everyone achieves requirement four of the Cub Local Knowledge Activity Badge.

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Badge Links

• Navigator - Draw map
• Navigator - Draw route map