Questions about the Maps and Globes poster

What’s on the Maps and Globes poster?

MAP against GLOBE, side by side. MAP: Flat — fits on paper or a screen; MAP: Can zoom into one street; MAP: Easy to carry and fold; MAP: Stretches the shapes near the poles; MAP: Best for finding your way; GLOBE: Round, like Earth really is; GLOBE: Shows the whole planet at once; GLOBE: Awkward to carry anywhere; GLOBE: Every country the right shape and size; GLOBE: Best for understanding the whole world; A map is a globe squashed flat, and squashing always distorts something. That is the…. Both need a key, a compass rose and a scale before you can trust them.

Who is the Maps and Globes poster for?

Maps and Globes is filed under 2nd Grade (ages 7–8), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting social studies, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.

When should you use the Maps and Globes poster?

Find your town on a map, then find your country on a globe. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Maps and Globes belongs on the wall where that social studies work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Maps and Globes?

Landforms, My Community and Past, Present, Future sit alongside Maps and Globes in the 2nd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.LandformsMy CommunityPast, Present, Future

Is the Maps and Globes poster free to download and print?

Yes. Maps and Globes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 2nd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Maps and Globes poster print at?

Maps and Globes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Maps and Globes loses nothing.Printing guide