Transparancy Activities Sans Pictures

Lauren Dowell
EDU 507
June 8, 2007
Transparency Activities



Transparency 8I—Directions
Describe to a traveler a route to a destination several miles from your home. Use the following:
number/name of roads
compass directions
visible landmarks
warning features
“too far” landmark
From 915 Josephine to Sadler’s Ford on Drake’s Creek (Water testing site)
Go to Tenth Street from Josephine. Take a right on 31w. You’ll pass Big Lots on the right and a Kroger on the left. Continue southwest on 31w until you get to US 240, this is where you’ll need to take a left. There’s a small gas station on the left and a place that sells wood on the right. You’ll know you’ve gone too far when you see mass fields and very few houses.
Continue down this road until you cross the railroad tracks. Look for a fork in the road. Take the right fork. Follow this road through the one stop sign. Fair warning: when the trees appear the stream is near! Do not go too fast in this area because many children use this area for swimming and play.

Transparencies 4B and 4C—Location
Choose a well-known local place and describe it’s location in at least six different ways.

Three Brothers Bar:
Landmark: Near the courthouse. Or: Stumble distance from 440 Main.
Topological: At the bottom of Main Street.
Distance/Direction: ½ mile North of Hospital Hill
Address: 330 East Main Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Global Grid: 36˚59’ 40” N, 86˚26’32”W
Local Grid: The three hundred block of East Main Street.
National Grid: S26 (7.5 minute map)


Transparency 3Q—Products
Research a product and determine where all the pieces or parts come from. Create a visual representation.
I chose one of my knit hats or bags that I give out like candy at Christmas time. I figured it would be easy, right? Nope, not so much.
The yarn that I use is 100% wool from Cascade Yarns (Cascade 220 to be exact). It’s great stuff and knits up fantastic. It also comes from Peru. The dye, spinning and packaging all come from Peru (I e-mailed the yarn company just to make sure).

The needles that I like come from Japan. They’re made of bamboo. They work well for me and without them I’d be unable to knit. http://www.clover-usa.com/dyn_prod.php?k=69534&p=CLV3016-16

The hat pattern that I use for most of my holiday giving is one that began in England in the 1500’s. It’s a Monmouth cap pattern that I noticed while watching “Colonial House” on PBS (it was filmed in New England http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/index.html ). A quick web-search after the show one night and I turned up this:
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/hats/monmouth.htm
Apparently the hat came over to America on the Mayflower because it was listed as a necessary item. There were laws and regulations that came about from the desire to keep people buying local wool products in the 1600s which required people to wear them on certain days.
History can be found here:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/jennifer/Monmouth.htm

I learned how to knit online from a person in Massachusetts (www.knittinghelp.com). Knitting, according to the historians, came to Europe after the Crusades. At least, that’s when it starts showing up in garments in that part of the world. It has been traced back to Arabic countries, and if you’ve ever learned how to knit, you might know why. We read and write left to right; however, if you read Arabic it goes from right to left-the same way that we knit!
Who knew? The hat that I make for my uncles, aunts, Step Mom, Dad and niece and nephew is quite the international gift.

Nephew, Joseph, in a modified Monmouth. The real deal: http://www.isca-morrismen.com/monmouth.htm

Path of the yarn: Peru to USA to Kentucky to me.
Japan-Origin of my needles.

The idea began in somewhere in the Middle East (just put Saudi Arabia as a model) and the hat was an idea from England that I got from PBS.
I took all of that and made a hat for my kid, my dad, my niece, my nephew, my step-mom, my brother, my uncle. . . you get the idea.

Transparency 3B—City Profile
Create a city profile of Bowling Green, KY

City Profile of Bowling Green Kentucky:
Population: 49,296 (From the 2000 Census)

Climate: http://www.city-data.com/city/Bowling-Green-Kentucky.html
Age Profile: http://www.city-data.com/zips/42101.html
Transportation:
We have a local bus system (see review of the map on this assignment.)
Trains are used to move goods; however, people do not have access to them.
Greyhound comes through this community.
Most people use cars.
We also have two cab companies.

Occupations: In 2005 in the 42101 zip code area. Information from: http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/zbpnaic/zbpsect.pl?Zip=42101


Transparencies 2C, 2D, 2E, and 2F—Thematic and Reference Maps
In a newspaper or magazine, find an example of a poorly developed map with unnecessary information or unclear symbols.

The worst map that I’ve run across lately is our Bowling Green “Way to Go” map. It’s supposed to show how to get around on our new busses, but all it does is confuse me. I would like to figure out a way to get my daughter to the water park and back each day without driving her myself. I see a bus pass my house each day and I see one at the water park, but neither seem to converge. The lines drawn are not overlain on a grid of city streets, so I have to know which street each of the landmarks is on in order to figure out where the busses run. Also, I have to know which Wal-mart is closest to which stores in order to figure out which directions the busses run. Furthermore, I have no idea which way is north on the map; there’s no compass rose! So, it’s not a matter of unnecessary information, it’s a matter of unclear symbols and lack of information.
I feel so helpless when presented with something like this!
http://www.casoky.org/downloads/GO_map_sched.pdf