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Hi! I’m Irene, this week’s translator. :) In this task, we are working with: Cartographic projections and treasure hunts, for this reason I will choose five concepts related to this topic, and that in our opinion are the most important. Firstly, the Mercator projection (1) is known as a map projection created by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. In this type, the meridians are drawn parallel to each other in vertical lines; and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance between each other increases with their distance from the Equator. Apart from that, we also find the Robinson projection (2). It is also a map projection, but, in this case, the poles are shown as lines instead of points.The purpose of Robinson is finding a good consensus on the problem of easily showing the entire globe in a flat image besides,making world map ‘’looking right’’, rather than measure precisely. On the other hand, we find the Azimuthal projection (3) which is another ...

Hi there!,  I'm Elena and this week I have a very important role: I am the analyst! The first thing I want to emphasize is the wonderful work that we have done during this week, because I think it reflects our improvement as a group during all these weeks. Apart from this, I would also like to comment and reflect on our work and what we have done. For me, the best part of the activity was the cooperative part because, as far as I'm concerned, this is really important. We shared and compared different ideas and doing this, we have learned a lot while preparing the task. But not everything can be good... If I have to go through the  worst part of the activity, maybe could be that we had to do many things and also a lot of work and that causes us stress. As I said before, this week we worked well, so from my  point of view, we must maintain this until the last moment and also maintain cooperation and the connection we have between us. The thing that we sho...

Hi!!  I am here to collect all the resources we have employed in this activity called  Treasure hunt: cartographic projections , due to I am the curator-famer during this week. Besides, I have included the resources used in the previous tasks making a clear and visual mind map.  I hope you like my effort doing this, thank you. https://www.mindomo.com/es/mindmap/1e3ede16f2289119e22ebad184cdd72c

Hey there! According to the task we have carried out, we have surfed on the Internet and have found some blogs related to map projections. To let people know that we really like these kind of blogs, we have commented them some things as you can see in this picture: Also, we have commented some aspects to another group of the class, to show them our opinion of their great piece of work:

Hi!  I am Andrea and this week I have the role of journalist, so I am going to describe what we have done during this task. Last Saturday we received the instructions provided by the teacher, and on Monday, she explained them to us. The objective was to differentiate between three types of projection maps (Robinson, Mercator and Azimuthal) and compare two countries according to them. Then, we had to decide what was the most suitable projection for us. Besides, we were asked to choose other distorting educational media since maps do not reflect the reality as it is actually. To sum up, we had to elaborate an example of a Treasure Hunt applying any Primary Education content and finally, relate our entire task with the slogan “Media are not neutral”. So, we started to work on it, dividing the parts of the task between the members of the group. Firstly, we chose as countries Finland and Pakistan and later, we did a presentation including all the items. Later, we decided to...

A globe is the only “perfect” representation of the Earth’s surface. All maps are distorted in four major ways. The four ways maps are distorted is by the shape, size, distance, and location of the landmasses being mapped. In order to make maps, projections must be made, and different projections require different distortions. For each projection listed below, complete the chart for the correct information.  Projection Robinson Mercator Azimuthal Include picture of it: Purpose The purpose of Robinson is finding a good consensus on the problem of easily showing the entire globe in a flat image. besides, making world map ‘’looking right’’ rather than measure precisely. https://www.gislounge.com/common-map-projections/ It is designed for several uses such as navigational charts, but it is the most used even in the educational context. https://www.britannica.com/science/Mercator-projection It is useful due to it shows all meridians as straights, wi...

Hello! This week the division of roles is the following: - Ana is the facilitator. - Natalia is a worker. - Ángela is the curator-farmer. - Andrea is the journalist. - Bea and Sara are the stars. - Irene is the translator. - Elena is the analyst.  Our names are Bea and Sara and this week we are the stars of task 4:  TREASURE HUNT: CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS ! This is the first time we have this role and that is why we are kind of nervous. However, the fact that there are two stars relax us a great deal. We will do our best and try that you learn a lot with us on Wednesday's presentation. We will talk about distorting media students are in touch with and we will focus on maps and textbooks. Later, we will do a treasure hunt related to a topic that we believe is not given as much importance as necessary. That is all we can say for the moment... See you on Wednesday! Lovely Teachers.