Thursday, February 19:  Atlas Intro / Absolute & Relative Location

CLASSWORK:

Today, Mr. Clark started with a lesson on locating places using two methods - Absolute Location & Relative Location.

"Absolute Location" refers simply to using a location's latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to find a place. (E.g. the absolute location of Kamloops is roughly (51° N, 120° W)].

"Relative Location" is a way of locating a place by knowing the distance and direction (straight line) that it is from another (known) place on earth.  [E.g. The location of Kamloops (relative to Logan Lake) is roughly 42 kilometres Northeast of Logan Lake.]

Following the lesson, Mr. Clark offered students the rest of the class to work on their Atlas Intro Booklets.

HOMEWORK:

No homework was assigned over the long weekend.