Today we took a closer look at the Themes of Location & Place. We did this by practicing our geo-literacy skills of cartography. We took a look at:
- The history of mapping - both written and oral maps
- We discussed the notion that Indigenous peoples would use elaborate and sophisticated oral maps to show hunting routes, migration patterns, trade routes, salmon cycles, and other information that they needed to live with the land.
- The first written maps are attributed to cave drawings by early humans, and were greatly linked and driven by astronomy in the early years.
- We discussed the fact that maps are subjective, and show the ways in which we view and perceive the world. They differ from culture to culture, and also tend to show bias in what details are included, the position of specific details (Ex. the centre was often Jerusalem), and also what is missing, or who map knowledge is attributed to (ex. The Black Tulip -Ricci Map)
- We did some basics on scale, latitude and longitude and the relationship between places, through direction (Moscrop is south east of downtown Vancouver)
Here are the notes on cartography, and the questions that we completed together in class.
After this we did the Practice Test for Spheres and Themes, and had some time to review our summative assignment for this course - the About a Place Assignment. It's posted on Teams, and will be due this week on Friday.
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