Can you read maps?
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Up until about a week ago I thought that I was quite good at reading maps and the symbols associated with them. However, while in Finland three of use were tasked with marking out the route of a 2 hour expedition which would be completed by around 2000, 5 to 11-year-olds over the course of the following three days.
We had a map on which the course was marked fully with a dotted lines. There were even arrows to make sure we would walk the right way round. Problem was we couldn’t even figure out where the start/finish line was supposed to go! We eventually found it and completed the walk after about three and a half hours.
Anyhoo, if you’re a dab-hand at the old map reading then try out this quiz from the BBC News Magazine…
I only managed 6/10, and that’s with a 4-year-old ‘A’ in GCSE Geography.
