Week 6: Play Doh Relief Map

In my homeschool geography co-op, which meets every other Tuesday, we use a program called Visual World Geography. It uses a technique called pictography. We are learning about the area called the Balkans. It is a very difficult area to memorize, with the pictogrophy technique it isn't. Another way we used to memorize is making a relief map. 

My Relief Map! :)

We made the relief maps by getting a large piece of flattened cardboard. We then traced the outline of the countries. We filled the outline in with play doh, and numbered them. Numbering  is very important so you can tell which country is which. This leads to the next step which is making a key. Numbering the map is pointless with out a key. My key is below for an example. These relief maps were actually pretty fun to make, mainly because we got to with play doh!

Make Sure to Number all the countries!

My Key

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for new posts every Friday! :) 
~Sara~