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00:00Hi friends! Today's lesson is all about map skills. Political versus physical.
00:06Now what is a map? Oh yeah, a map is a drawing of a place from high above. Now
00:13we use maps for lots of different things, and the reason why you need a map helps
00:18you decide what type of map there is to get. Did you know there are different
00:21kinds of maps? There totally are. Like, you need to think, what do I need to know
00:26in order to decide which map I'm going to use? If I'm going on a trip to Disney
00:33World, I want to know exactly what roads to take to get there, otherwise I'll just
00:38be driving in circles. If I want to go swimming in the ocean, I need to know
00:44where the water is, otherwise I'll be swimming in the middle of a prairie. That
00:48won't work out very well. If I want to go hiking, I definitely don't want to know
00:53where the mountains are. It's not very exciting to hike around flat ground. And
00:58if I want to go shopping, I want to know where those big cities are, because I
01:02want to make sure I have lots of choices. Our learning goal for today says, I can
01:08explain differences between political and physical maps. Now political and
01:13physical maps are two different types of maps. A political map looks like this. A
01:19political map shows streets and major highways. It shows big cities and little
01:26cities. It shows borders. Like, let's see, all of these red lines, those are big
01:33major roads that we could follow. So if I'm way down here in Fort Lauderdale, I
01:38could follow the red lines all the way up in Orlando. That's where I need to go.
01:43That's where Disney World is. Having a political map helps me to find my way on
01:48different roads. I also see on this political map this little imaginary line,
01:54which is called the borderline. That shows me where one state ends and a new
01:59state begins. I also see lots of words on this political map, like Jacksonville and
02:07Clearwater and Tallahassee. That's because political maps show me different
02:13cities and towns around on the map. If I want to go to a big city to go shopping,
02:18or if I want to go to Disney World, I'm gonna need to use a political map
02:23because it has just the right kind of information that I need. Now if I want to
02:29go hiking, or if I want to go swimming somewhere and I'm just not sure where
02:32the water is or where those tall mountains are, I'm gonna use a different
02:36kind of map. It's called a physical map. A physical map shows you what the earth
02:42looks like. You'll see over here where it's nice and green, that means it's
02:46really flat and there's not a lot going on. But see how these little bumpy parts
02:52right there? That shows me that the ground, the physical ground, is a little
02:57bit higher. I know this is like Appalachian Mountains over here, and then
03:01whoa, look at all these mountains out here. Goodness gracious. So just by
03:06looking at this physical map, I know if I want to go hiking, I'm probably not gonna
03:11do it in Louisiana. I probably want to go way out here to like Idaho. Looks
03:17like they have lots of good hiking there. Okay, so a physical map helps you to know
03:22what the earth looks like. If I want to go swimming, a physical map really does a
03:26nice job of highlighting where all the water is. I could go up here to the Great
03:30Lakes or anywhere on the East Coast so I can go by the water. I can go way over
03:35here on the West Coast over by the Pacific Ocean. A physical map tells you what the
03:42earth looks like. You'll notice it's totally different from the political map,
03:46so you need to think about what do I need to know and then get the right kind
03:50of map. Our learning goal says I can explain differences between political
03:55and physical maps. I hope that this has helped you to learn those differences.