G6 Map Skills - Emoji Symbol Mapping Our School

Name:G6 – Map Skills - Emoji Symbol Mapping Our SchoolYou are going to use some familiar symbols to map out your own school. You can find a full list ofthem by clicking on the following link. http://getemoji.com/Emojis represent emotions as well as being a good way to show where physical objects are. Look atthe plan of the school site and try to attribute 20 emojis to places around the school.The website above lists all the emojis in different categories. Click on the title of each section to betaken to a full list and then on the symbol that you want. Now you can copy and paste the imagesonto the table below. But . . the rule is that you are only allowed to use People Emojis. No animals, nature, sport, travel,objects or symbols.Make a list of the 20 places in and around the school building that you could apply an emotion orsymbol to. Try to get a good spread around the school including places you are not so familiar with.1www.geographypods.com

Name:Key for Emoji Map Of Our SchoolUsing the symbols on the previous sheet, create a key to show what you 20 emojis represent.PasteEmoji hereWhat it represents and why I’ve put it there.This Emoji is called ‘Grinning Face’. I have put it where the Geography classroom is asthe subject makes me really happy every lesson!2www.geographypods.com

Name:Emotion & Feature Mapping Our SchoolCopy and paste your 20 emojis onto the correct place on the map to show your emotion at a differentlocation or a physical object that may be there. Make sure that the locations below match up with yourkey on the previous page.3www.geographypods.com

Name:Applying Images to our Emoji MapYou will be given a flip camera each. During the lesson, please walk around the school and take a goodquality photograph of each of your 20 locations. Please do not go into a classroom where there is a lessonon. You may photograph the classroom from the outside. Ask permission before you take photos if thereis a teacher or another student in the place you want to capture.Please paste your photographs into the table below. Keep them in the same order as your key on ds.com

Name:The Final Display – Emoji Mapping Our School DayTask 1. You are now ready to put together your emoji map of our school. To do thisplease follow the instructions below:1. Print out Page 2 in colour on a sheet of A42. Print out Page 3 in colour / b&w on a sheet of A33. Print out Page 4 in colour / b&w on a sheet of A4Task 2. You will be given a sheet of A2 card. You should stick your A3 map of thesheet in the centre with the key in the bottom right hand corner.Task 3. You should now cut out all the photos on Page 4 and place them around thedisplay with a ruler drawn arrow pointing from the photo to where on the map theywere taken and your chosen emoji.Task 4. You are now going to ‘emotion map out’ a typical day in your week in school.Choose any day (not Wednesday) and work out which rooms / facilities you wouldbe in using the table below.RegP1P2Break P3P4Lunch P5Break P6Task 5. Using graph paper, or Excel, create a line graph to show your emotions ateach of these ten places. You are responding to the physical space where you arerather than the subject that you are learning. How does the environment make youfeel and why? The table below shows your five categories of emotion and you willneed to cut them all out and stick on the Y axis of your graph to represent yourfeelings.EmojiYour line graph should have 10 points to plot (see timings of day above) as against5 different emotions.Task 6 – Print out your graph and stick it to your display.5www.geographypods.com

You are now ready to put together your emoji map of our school. To do this please follow the instructions below: 1. Print out Page 2 in colour on a sheet of A4 2. Print out Page 3 in colour / b&w on a sheet of A3 3. Print out Page 4 in colour / b&w on a sheet of A4 Task 2. You will be given a sheet of A2 c