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Written in partnership with Contents: Introduction to the LEGO Brick Atlas South Africa Map – Piece 1 South Africa Map – Piece 2 & instructions Africa Map – Piece 1 Africa Map – Piece 2 Africa Map – Piece 3 & instructions World Map – Piece 1 World Map – Piece 2 World Map – Piece 3 World Map – Piece 4 World Map – Piece 5 World Map – Piece 6 & instructions Grade 4 Brick Atlas ideas Grade 5 Brick Atlas ideas Grade 6 Brick Atlas ideas Grade 7 Brick Atlas ideas Grade 8 Brick Atlas ideas Grade 9 Brick Atlas ideas ….2 ….3 ….4 ….5 ….6 ….7 ….8 ….9 …10 …11 …12 …13 …14 …15 …17 …19 …20 …22 Introduction to the LEGO Brick Atlas: This book contains three map templates which you and your class can use to build LEGO maps of South Africa, Africa and the world. You can then use the map as a teaching aid for many other sections of the social science curriculum. We’ve included some ideas of how to use the maps in this manual but we are sure that you will be able to think of plenty of your own. We suggest that you include the students in the building of the maps, rather than building them yourself. This may take longer but it will enrich their learning experience. Here are some tips for making the maps: Before building the maps, collect as many 1 x 1 and 2 x 1 bricks as you can find (you will also be using the bigger bricks in the maps, but the small pieces are helpful for the edges and are more difficult to find in the charity boxes) Photocopy the templates and then cut out the individual provinces, countries or continents one by one Use the positive and the negative of the shape to guide where the bricks need to go You will probably find that you do not have enough baseplates in your charity box to build the whole map of the world. But you can build each continent on a separate baseplate and just leave spaces between them for the oceans. Build one map at a time so that you don’t run out of bricks You can give each student or group a section to build and then join or the sections together, or you can let a few of them build at a time while the rest of the class is working on something else South Africa Map – Piece 1 South Africa Map – Piece 2 How to construct the South Africa LEGO map: 1. Photocopy the two pieces of the South Africa map template (on this page and the one that follows), cut off the edges and join them together as shown below. The dotted lines on the map pieces show where they should overlap. 2. Place six 16 x 16 baseplates next to one another to form a large rectangular base. 3. Build each of the provinces and neighbouring country boundaries on the map by placing bricks on the baseplates as shown on the template. For younger classes, you can just build the whole of South Africa in one colour, and for older classes you can use a different colour for each of the provinces. 1 2 Africa Map – Piece 1 Africa Map – Piece 2 Africa – Piece 3 How to construct the Africa LEGO map: 1. Photocopy the three pieces of the Africa map template, cut off the edges and join them together as shown below. The dotted lines on the map pieces show where they should overlap. 2. Place four 32 x 32 baseplates or nine 16 x 16 baseplates next to one another to form a square. 3. Build each of the countries on the map by placing bricks on the baseplates as shown on the template. Try to make sure that each country is built in a different colour from those touching it. 3 2 1 World Map - Piece 1: North America World Map - Piece 2: South America World Map - Piece 3: Europe and Asia World Map - Piece 4: Africa and Southwest Asia World Map - Piece 5: Northeast Asia North 8 World Map - Piece 6: Australasia How to construct the LEGO world map: 1. Photocopy the six pieces of the world map template, cut off the edges and join them together as shown below. The dotted lines on the map pieces show where they should overlap. 2. To make the map exactly as shown in the templates, you will need a large number of baseplates. You can either use twenty 16 x 16 baseplates (in 4 rows of 5) or six 32 x 32 baseplates (in 2 rows of 3). However, it is unlikely you will have this many baseplates in your box and so we suggest rather building each continent on a separate baseplate and leaving some extra spaces between them for the oceans. 3. Build each of the continents in a different colour, using this template as your guide. 1 3 5 2 4 6 Grade 4 Brick Atlas Ideas CAPS alignment: Phase Intermediate phase Grades Learning area Grade 4 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, water in SA, farming in SA, transport over time, communication over time South Africa LEGO map: 1. Build the oceans: Use a brick colour that has not been used on the rest of the map and place the bricks on the baseplate around the edge of South Africa to make the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Label the oceans using LEGO flagpoles with paper labels stuck on. 2. Build the provinces: Students build the different provinces on the map in different colours. They can label the provinces using LEGO flagpoles with paper labels stuck on. 3. Find the cities: Students locate South Africa’s largest cities (e.g. Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban) on map. Ask the class to decide on a way to label these cities. For example, you could build tiny brick skyscrapers for all of the cities or a build a prominent feature (e.g. Table Mountain) for each one. 4. Locate where you live: Students locate their own settlement and label it on the map using a LEGO flag or symbol they have built. 5. Compass: Use the bricks to build a compass symbol in the corner of the map, which shows the direction of north, south, east and west. 6. Grid references: Place a piece of paper along the edges of the map and label each row or column of studs with a number or letter. Students take turns to locate things on the map using alpha-numeric grid references. 7. Key: Students build a key for the map using different coloured bricks to represent the different provinces and symbols they have built to represent other features on the map. 8. Water in SA: Students locate South Africa’s major rivers, lakes, dams and wetlands on the map and label them using blue bricks or LEGO flags. 9. Farming in SA: Students locate South Africa’s main crop and stock farming areas on the map and label them using brick symbols (e.g. brick cows to show cattle farming or different coloured bricks to indicate different crops) 10. Transport over time: Students build wagons, carts, steam trains, cars, trucks, ships and airplanes and place them on the map. They can also build roads, train tracks, shipping ports and airports. 11. Communication over time: Build minifigures using different forms of communication that have existed over time (e.g. telephone, post) and place them on the map. Grade 5 Brick Atlas Ideas CAPS alignment: Phase Intermediate phase Grades Learning area Grade 5 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, physical features of SA, weather, climate & vegetation of SA, minerals in SA, first farmers in southern Africa, ancient Egypt South Africa LEGO map: 1. High places and low places: Students can add relief to the map by using 1 extra brick to represent every 500m above sea level. For example, Thabana Ntlenyana, the highest point of the Drakensberg is 3 482m so it would be about 7 bricks high (this also teaches students about rounding numbers). To show that land features at sea level are at the same level as the oceans, place blue bricks (one brick high) around the coastline of South Africa. 2. Physical features of SA: Label the coastal plain, the escarpment, the plateau, the Highveld, Lowveld, Great Karoo, Little Karoo, Kalahari and Namaqualand, using LEGO flags. 3. Well-known physical features: Locate and label the main physical features in your own province. Then locate and label well-known physical features around SA such as Table Mountain, the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, Waterberg, Lake St. Lucia, Augrabies Falls, Cape Point and Algoa Bay. 4. Rivers: Build and label the main rivers of South Africa using narrow bricks or plates, and identifying the sources, major tributaries and directions of flow 5. Roads: Build South Africa’s major roads (e.g. N1, N2 and N3) using narrow bricks or plates. 6. Climate: Choose a different colour for the different kinds of climate experienced around South Africa (e.g. red for hot, blue for cold, green for wet, yellow for dry) and then place the relevant bricks in the places in South Africa or your province where these types of climate are experienced. 7. Vegetation: Students build LEGO plants to represent the different types of vegetation that exist in South Africa (e.g. small plants for fynbos, thorn trees for savannah, palm trees for tropical) and then place them in the places where they are likely to grow in SA. Keep the climate bricks on the map so that the students can see the relationship between climate and vegetation. 8. Wildlife: Students build animals and add these to the climate and vegetation map. 9. Mining: Locate and label South Africa’s major mines on the map. Africa LEGO map: 1. Build the oceans: Use a brick colour that has not been used on the rest of the map and place the bricks on the baseplate around the edge of Africa to make the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Label the oceans using LEGO flagpoles with paper labels stuck on. 2. Compass: Use the bricks to build a compass symbol in the corner of the map, which shows the direction of north, south, east and west. 3. Equator: Build the equator on the map using thin bricks or plates. 4. Build the islands: Build Madagascar, Zanzibar, Sao Tome & Principe etc. and place them in their correct locations around the African continent. 5. Country game: Teacher describes a country using the words landlocked, coastal, north, south, east & west, equator and students try to find the country on the map. 6. Neighbouring countries: Locate South Africa’s neighbours (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe) and label them using LEGO flags. 7. Cities: Build the big cities of Africa (including Cairo, Lagos, Johannesburg and Nairobi) and the capital cities of South Africa and its neighbouring countries. 8. Physical features: Build Africa’s highest mountains (Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya) and southern Africa’s highest peak (Thabana Ntlenyana in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg range) Build Africa’s three largest lakes: Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi Build Africa’s great rivers: Nile, Niger, Congo, Zambezi, Limpopo, Gariep-Orange Build Southern Africa’s famous waterfalls: Victoria, Maletsunyane, Augrabies Build Africa’s great deserts: The Sahara and the Namib 9. Grid references: Place a piece of paper along the edges of the map and label each row or column of studs with a number or letter. Students take turns to locate things on the map using alpha-numeric grid references. 10. First farmers in southern Africa: Students build minifigures of the first farmers in southern Africa and place them in the relevant places on the map. 11. Ancient Egypt: Students build features that existed in ancient Egypt such as pyramids, tombs etc. and place them on the map around Egypt. Grade 6 Brick Atlas Ideas CAPS alignment: Phase Intermediate phase Grades Learning area Grade 6 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, population, world climate & vegetation, Mapungubwe, European explorers, democracy South Africa LEGO map: 1. Scale: Students work out a scale for brick map of South Africa and then use it to measure and convert straight-line distances between cities on the map. 2. Population: Students convert a population graph of South Africa’s provinces to a brick bar graph by using one brick to represent every 1 million people. Place each bar of bricks on the relevant province on the map. Students can also replace each brick with one minifigure and place these on the provinces to show population density. 3. Rural and urban: Students build brick symbols to represent rural and urban areas and place these in the relevant places on the map. For example, they could build skyscrapers or groups of minifigures for urban areas, and huts or animals or single minifigures for rural areas. 4. Reasons for settlement: Students build brick symbols to represent the different reasons that people live where they do (e.g. build a plant to show vegetation, build a minifigure with tools to show human activity / employment). Discuss why people have chosen to live in some of the highly populated areas of South Africa and place the relevant symbols on that part of the map. 5. African kingdoms: Students build LEGO models of artefacts discovered in Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe, or the kinds of buildings that existed in these two kingdoms, and place them on the relevant places on the map. You will need to extend the map northwards to reach the location of Great Zimbabwe. 6. European explorers: Map the journeys of Bartholomeu Dias and Vasco Da Gama on the LEGO map by placing small bricks along their routes. Once the routes have been mapped, students build LEGO models of the Portugese explorers’ ships and sail them along the routes around the map. Students can also build the Dias and Da Gama cross monuments out of white bricks, and place these at Cape Point, Luderitz and Kwaaihoek. 7. Democracy: Students build South Africa’s national flag or coat of arms out of LEGO and place these on the map. LEGO world map: 1. Hemispheres: Mark the equatorand the Greenwich Meridian on the map using thin (1 stud wide) brick or plates. Label the different hemispheres on the map using LEGO flags. 2. Latitude and longitude: Mark major lines of latitude and longitude using thin bricks or plates. and cities in degrees of latitude and longitude and mark Students locate selected countries these on the map. 3. Scale: Students work out the scale of the world map and the South Africa map. 4. World climate: Students build a brick bar graph comparing temperature and rainfall of various places around the world. After the bar graph has been built, students take the bars and place them on the map in the relevant locations. 5. Vegetation regions: Students decide on brick symbols to use for tropical rainforests (e.g. light green trees or bricks), hot deserts (e.g. yellow bricks) and coniferous forests (e.g. dark green trees) and place these around the map in the relevant locations, to map where different vegetation regions occur around the world. Grade 7 Brick Atlas Ideas Phase Senior phase Grades Learning area Grade 7 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, structure of the earth, world population, Mali & Timbuktu, colonisation at the Cape South Africa LEGO map: 1. Water in SA: Students locate South Africa’s major rivers, lakes, dams and wetlands on the map and label them using blue bricks or LEGO flags. 2. Mining: Locate and label the location of South Africa’s major mineral resources. 3. Colonisation of the Cape: Build minifigures of slaves, free burghers (Dutch & French huguenots), trekboers, missionaries, Dutch people and the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries, and place them on the map. Africa LEGO map: 1. Mali and Timbuktu: Students build models of the kinds of buildings that existed in Mali and Timbuktu (e.g. the Great Mosque) and place these on the map of Mali. 2. 9th century traders: Students build camels and minifigures and place these across the Sahara Desert to show the routes that camel caravans took across the desert to the Mediterranean shores. LEGO world map: 1. Scale: Students work out a scale for brick map and then calculate distances on the map using this scale. 2. Current events: Students bring newspaper cuttings of current events throughout the year and then work out the location of these events on the map. For each event, students build LEGO models of what has taken place, and place these in the relevant locations on the brick map. 3. Tectonic plates: Use the baseplates that the brick map has been built on to show how tectonic plates move, forming mid-ocean ridges, oceanic trenches, mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes along the plate boundaries as they diverge and converge. 4. Volcanoes and earthquakes: Students build brick symbols to indicate volcanoes and earthquakes and place these at locations around the earth where volcanoes are present or large earthquakes have taken place. Grade 8 Brick Atlas Ideas Phase Senior phase Grades Learning area Grade 8 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, world climate, South African climate and relief, LEGO world map: 1. Hemispheres: Mark the equator and the Greenwich Meridian on the map using thin (1 stud wide) brick or plates. Label the different hemispheres on the map using LEGO flags. 2. Latitude and longitude: Mark major lines of latitude and longitude using thin bricks or plates. Students locate selected countries and cities in degrees of latitude and longitude and mark these on the map. 3. Scale: Students work out a scale for brick map and then calculate distances on the map using this scale. Students write the scale as a word, line and ratio scale, and then use studs and bricks to build the ratio scale. 4. World time: Mark the International Date Line on the map using thin bricks or plates. Place pieces of paper along the edges of the map and mark the rough location of the different time zones. 5. Places in the news: Students bring newspaper cuttings of current events throughout the year and then work out the location of these events on the map. For each event, students build LEGO models of what has taken place, and place these in the relevant locations on the brick map. 6. World climate: Students build a brick bar graph comparing temperature and rainfall of various places around the world. After the bar graph has been built, students take the bars and place them on the map in the relevant locations. Discuss the factors that have influences the temperature and rainfall of these places (e.g. distance from equator, distance from oceans, altitude and relief). 7. Climate regions of the world: Map the different climate regions of the world using different coloured bricks. For example: Polar – blue Tropical – red Desert – yellow Mediterranean - orange Temperate - green Alpine - white South Africa LEGO map: 1. Relief map: Students can add relief to the map by using 1 extra brick to represent every 500m above sea level. For example, Thabana Ntlenyana, the highest point of the Drakensberg is 3 482m so it would be about 7 bricks high (this also teaches students about rounding numbers). To show that land features at sea level are at the same level as the oceans, place blue bricks (one brick high) around the coastline of South Africa. 2. Physical features of SA: Label the coastal plain, the escarpment, the plateau, the Highveld, Lowveld, Great Karoo, Little Karoo, Kalahari and Namaqualand, using LEGO flags. 3. Well-known physical features: Locate and label the main physical features in your own province. Then locate and label well-known physical features around SA such as Table Mountain, the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, Waterberg, Lake St. Lucia, Augrabies Falls, Cape Point and Algoa Bay. 4. Rivers: Build and label the main rivers of South Africa using narrow bricks or plates, and identifying the sources, major tributaries and directions of flow 5. Climate: Choose a different colour for the different kinds of climate experienced around South Africa (e.g. red for hot, blue for cold, green for wet, yellow for dry) and then place the relevant bricks in the places in South Africa or your province where these types of climate are experienced. Discuss how South Africa’s physical features affect the temperature and rainfall in a particular place. 6. Trade and transport: Students build South Africa’s major roads, railways, airports and harbours on the map. 7. SA history 1860: Mark the important landmarks and areas of this time period on the map: Kimberley diamond mine Xhosa, Pedi and Zulu kingdoms Sugar plantations in the British colony of Natal Gold mines in the Witwatersrand Grade 9 Brick Atlas Ideas Phase Senior phase Grades Learning area Grade 9 Social sciences Subject History & geography Topics Map skills, South Africa LEGO map: 1. Relief map: Students can build a relief map by using 1 extra brick to represent every 500m above sea level. For example, Thabana Ntlenyana, the highest point of the Drakensberg is 3 482m so it would be about 7 bricks high. To show that land features at sea level are at the same level as the oceans, they can place blue bricks (one brick high) around the coastline of South Africa. Students should use a topographical map as their guide, and make sure that they include any natural or constructed features that are shown on the map using symbols. LEGO world map: 1. Development: Students look up the HDI (development) rankings and mark each country with a brick representing its development level (e.g. blue for high, green for medium, yellow for low). 2. World War II: Locate the major powers in WWII on the map: Germany, Italy, Russia, Britain, France, USA & Japan
