Create Your Own Town Map Skills

As a final assessment for Map Skills, students enjoy creating their own Town using Scale: Distance: Symbols: Human/Physical Features learned in prior lessons. ‘Must have’ features enable the teacher to assess as sets a benchmark allowing some to add more complexity with contours and extended use of Scale. This is accompanied by a justification exercise to explain the rationale behind the town plan. Some guided sentence starters are given here but from experience students take off as they justify their hotel location near main roads, skate-park locations near housing and more… always found to be a creative, engaging applied assessment with scope for all. On reflective tasks this is one they enjoy doing. Also enables great display material too. Scrolls of justification alongside the Towns. D.E.A.L.S compliments this to guide students to explain and link and add something special. The Mark scheme is loose so open to your additions and adaptation. Good luck!