Making a globe (Complete lesson)

This lesson looks at the difficulty of depicting a globe onto a flat surface and involves the pupils making a globe.

It starts of with a quick picture quiz - which map projection is better? all answers in the PowerPoint.
It then goes on to see if pupils can peel an orange and make a rectangle out of the peel (this could be a teacher demonstration or just shown through the use of photos).
It then looks at the problems of the Mercator map projection and looks at the different factors that map creators have to try to balance when creating a map projection.
The pupils then go on to make a globe of the world at night.
There are possible extension activities where the pupils print off a cube shaped globe of the world and / or they turn a photo into a globe.
These lesson comes complete with:

Globe template,
Pupil worksheet
PowerPoint
teacher notes