Participants brought imaginary worlds to life with their own creative maps. Using everyday arts materials, the youth participants (and librarians) envisioned their own worlds while thinking about the role that maps play in how we understand the environment around us.
Using construction paper, markers, pens, colored pencils, and rice(!) to create their own worlds, each participant brought their own world to life and filled it with resources, features and items selected from three categories: Culture, Nature, and Infrastructure.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the role of maps as a form of storytelling
- Translate resources, features, and items into a key
- Engage with the cardinal directions as it relates to their map
- Develop creative stories based on the features of a map