Students in seventh and eighth grade culture/geography class spent time before Fall Break creating their own maps of Springfield showing the path from their house to school and important landmarks, regions, and human-environment interactions along the way. This week they explored how common maps of the world all include some sort of distortion. This video challenged perceptions of the size of common countries and areas of the world. Then they analyzed various map projections and decided which would be best for different purposes. This tool helped us to see the variety of different projections and their effect.