2007-04-16 09:01:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Egypt
The child is eight, very visual, but not accademic, living in the uk.....having never really travelled. maps are not really clicking if you know what I mean, tried that one.
2007-04-16 09:48:02 · update #1
i am a teacher and teach the subject of ancient Egypt i come across this problem all the time. your above suggestions of google earth are excellent start above the whole then zoom in further and further until you come to luxor and are looking at house roofs, then zoom out again and point out that the place you were just looking at was this tiny point on the map. Explain how long it woulod take you driving in a car to drive the length of the nile or travelling in a train. talk about how long it would take you to walk the length. Always try to bring it back to a point he/she understands a point of reference they are familiar with, e.g. the walk to school. is half a mile if you walked the length of the nile it would take you this many school days..... etc.put a shape the size of your town on ta map of he nile, put a shape the size of your country or state if american along the length of a map of the nile. use scales, if the distance between your house and grans house is x a piece of string this long then the length of the nile is y = this many trips to gran this long piece of string.
the realitiy is i cant visulize the nile, can you? i can only try to put it into perspective for my self
2007-04-20 07:26:28 · answer #1 · answered by sabrina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to tell us how old they are. I would say something like:
"Imagine that you are on a really tall mountain, not above the clouds, but you can see forever. The River Nile is beneath you and you can follow it with your finger all the way into the sunset". If that doesn't work, do what everyone else is saying and get google earth (you don't need to pay0. Just go onto google search engine and type in google earth. Follow the links and get the free download. Hope this helps.
2007-04-16 09:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The child should feel and compare the distance on maps many times if he is young. After using and comparing maps and some distances for sometime, you can use Google earth or Yahoo maps.
Good luck
2007-04-16 10:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Wise Heart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google Earth is really cool. Another way is to get a map, show them where the city is where you live, have them see that it's just a dot. Then show them the Nile-it's a lot of dots long!
2007-04-16 09:10:42 · answer #4 · answered by ♫♥~nycgirl~♥♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distance from NYC to Las Vegas is 3592km. Show them a map or globe and say you can go there and back. If the child is young enough and you don't need complete accuracy Say you can go from NYC to Los Angeles and back, or from the east coast and the west coast and back for even less accuracy.
2007-04-16 09:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by pschroeter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
measure the distance on a daily trip to the store or school. Do the math on how many trips it would take to equal the distance in the nile river, or keep track of the days, if truely a daily trip and mark it on the calendar when you will have completed the distance.
2007-04-16 09:08:53 · answer #6 · answered by thephoneguy1234 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show him a map of the world. Then show him Africa, show him where the Nile starts and stops. That should give him a scale to work on
2007-04-16 09:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's maps.
sense of distances. point to him a distance that he travelled or knows on the map and then point out to the Nile.
If he can't visualize this then i suggest showing him an aerial sat photo.
2007-04-16 18:46:28 · answer #8 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download google earth and show them.
Google earth isnt a map, you can zoom right in and out to show him.
2007-04-16 09:04:52 · answer #9 · answered by boz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
relate distance to time
2007-04-16 09:55:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋