Description
Teams of up to two students will attempt to navigate
themselves around a state road map.
Number of Participants / Approximate Time
Up to 2 students / 45 minutes
The Competition
1. Teams will be given a standard state road map and a set of directions
to guide them across the state to a pre-determined destination. All teams
will receive the same map and directions.
2. Rulers will be provided. Calculators may be used but will not be
provided. Students may use notes. Notes must be confined to one side of
an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. Notes will be taken up when students turn
in their answer sheets. Students are not to mark on the maps.
3. All participants will begin at the same time and have a maximum of 45 minutes
to answer the questions and turn in their maps and answer sheets.
4. Question areas include locating and interpreting symbols, locating and
interpreting features, determining the distance between features, and
using the map index, scale and key, inset maps, and data tables.
5. Questions may follow along a storyline journey, be in the form of a
simple test, or a combination of both.
Scoring
Places in this competition will be determined by the number of
correct answers recorded. In case of a tie, the team using the least
amount of time will be awarded the higher place.
Notes**
A combination of a storyline journey / fill-in-the-blanks section and a brief
map quiz section has proven successful during the event's six year run at the
ESO at JHS. The storyline journey can include names of towns passed through, highways
intersecting, points of interest passed by etc. as the students follow a given
set of directions. In the map quiz, students can be quizzed on all elements of
the map from the key and legend to various other informational elements (state
info, rest area locations, state police posts) printed on the map.
Last Updated: October 28, 2000
Copyright 2000, David Peters, ESO at Jacksonville High School.
Reproduction for educational use permitted.
