Salt maps....I remember making a salt map of West Virginia when I was in grade 4. What a great idea for teaching the major land forms of Canada! We started with amazing parent participation. Everyone sent in 2 cups of Salt. THANK YOU!
The students had previously traced the outline of this very complexly shaped country onto a pizza box (Very kindly donated by Panago). The pizza boxes were then spray painted by each student, covered in an economy sized garbage bag as a smock--don't want a bright royal blue on those uniforms!!
Miss Leonard supplied the flour, and the next step was to make the dough. It was a bit of a messy process (upon reflection, I would cover the entire room with a drop-cloth next time!), but we managed to get it all mixed up without any major damage!
The next step was to start filling the outline with dough. It is not as easy as it sounds and took some of the students a LOT longer than they thought!
But the result was amazing! Some of the students really took their time and put a lot of effort into this project with great results!
After the pizza box was folded and the map was labled....We are finished! Here is Joseph with his final product. Great Job, Joseph!! Well done!
--Miss Leonard
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