{"id":714,"date":"2021-10-27T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=714"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:31:46","slug":"exploring-the-world-of-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/exploring-the-world-of-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the World of Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Murray recently connected the world of maps and cartography to our explorations of storybooks around the world.\u00a0 We learned that the flat map we have been using to plot our storybooks is actually a distorted projection of the globe!<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how our spherical world is converted into a flat map?\u00a0 See the video below for more information!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why all world maps are wrong\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIID5FDi2JQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video above discusses the way in which the size of different countries around the world can become misrepresented on a flat map.\u00a0 Mr. Murray explored the following online mapping resource with us to visualize how these changes occur and how our maps may not be telling us the whole truth!<\/p>\n<p><em>The True Size Of<\/em> Online Mapping Tool: https:\/\/thetruesize.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Murray recently connected the world of maps and cartography to our explorations of storybooks around the world.\u00a0 We learned that the flat map we have been using to plot our storybooks is actually a distorted projection of the globe! Have you ever wondered how our spherical world is converted into a flat map?\u00a0 See &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/exploring-the-world-of-maps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring the World of Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}