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Illustration for the project The Yard Surveyor

The Yard Surveyor

Grown from Map the Yard with Coordinates: survey a place properly and draw it to scale.

Seven activities that turn a coordinate grid into real surveying. Children pace and measure a space, draw it to scale, add a key and a compass, test their map on somebody else and redraw it after the feedback. Every activity has a harder strand for anybody who wants the stretch.

Maths
Geography
Design
Science

  • How scale drawings work
  • Why a key and a compass point matter
  • How surveyors check their own measurements