OT: Best way to flatten a map?
Nichole
I thought I'd ask here since surely so many people have maps and posters on their walls. What is the best way you've found to flatten a map? I have a large wall map of the US that I flattened by putting big books on it on the floor for several days. It never really got to the flat and smooth point. Plus the cat loves to lie on any piece of paper and you never know when she'll get a hair ball. I just got a poster of an Egyptian history timeline and I want to flatten it to the completely flat and smooth state. Should I iron it? Would that work?
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
Nichole
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Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
Nichole
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Roll it backwards, the opposite way of the way it has been rolled, and leave
it that way an hour or a day and see if it's not flatter.
Ironing is okay for folded maps, to get the creases down, but it's not best
for a rolled thing.
Sandra
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it that way an hour or a day and see if it's not flatter.
Ironing is okay for folded maps, to get the creases down, but it's not best
for a rolled thing.
Sandra
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Gold Standard
Have you thought of laminating it? We like to laminate the things that we
want to keep nice, though the lamination can cost as much or more as the
map! Our local Kinko's laminates for $3 a square foot, and their limit size
is 36" wide with no length limit.
Jacki
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From: Nichole [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] OT: Best way to flatten a map?
I thought I'd ask here since surely so many people have maps and posters on
their walls. What is the best way you've found to flatten a map? I have a
large wall map of the US that I flattened by putting big books on it on the
floor for several days. It never really got to the flat and smooth point.
Plus the cat loves to lie on any piece of paper and you never know when
she'll get a hair ball. I just got a poster of an Egyptian history timeline
and I want to flatten it to the completely flat and smooth state. Should I
iron it? Would that work?
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
Nichole
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want to keep nice, though the lamination can cost as much or more as the
map! Our local Kinko's laminates for $3 a square foot, and their limit size
is 36" wide with no length limit.
Jacki
-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] OT: Best way to flatten a map?
I thought I'd ask here since surely so many people have maps and posters on
their walls. What is the best way you've found to flatten a map? I have a
large wall map of the US that I flattened by putting big books on it on the
floor for several days. It never really got to the flat and smooth point.
Plus the cat loves to lie on any piece of paper and you never know when
she'll get a hair ball. I just got a poster of an Egyptian history timeline
and I want to flatten it to the completely flat and smooth state. Should I
iron it? Would that work?
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
Nichole
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Yahoo! Groups Links
Nichole
Thanks, Sandra and Jackie for the ideas. I appreciate them. I will probably use Sandra's now, but I have some maps that I'd like to take to Kinkos this week, including my big US map. Thank you both! It's the first thing I couldn't find on www.ehow.com ... Sandra, you might want to submit your answer. :o)
Nichole
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Nichole
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In a message dated 3/17/2005 8:36:39 AM Mountain Standard Time,
ms_fausey@... writes:
It's the first thing I couldn't find on www.ehow.com ... Sandra, you might
want to submit your answer. :o)
Maybe I will.
We used to order lots of posters when I was teaching, and they came in COOL
triangular boxes which could be fastened together for mailing, so it was just
one package no matter how many of the triangles had been taped together.
They'd put three or four per box, and we would roll them backwards and stick
them back in the boxes. Some kids took boxes home, some took them
rubber-banded.
We have Pixar stock and the first few years, they sent posters to
stockholders, in cool triangular boxes. We got them laminated. <g> With lamination,
you can use box tape to put them up and get it off easily.
Without lamination, I put box tape flat on the back in the corners and in
the middle at the top, Then I put a loop of box tape (so it will stick to the
poster and the wall) on that box-taped spot (so I "laminate" just the part
I'm going to tape to) and when it's time to take it down, the spots where the
loops were are still clean and the loops of tape go in the trash.
Or I just tape over the corners, but it's not as pretty and it's harder to
take down.
Sandra
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ms_fausey@... writes:
It's the first thing I couldn't find on www.ehow.com ... Sandra, you might
want to submit your answer. :o)
Maybe I will.
We used to order lots of posters when I was teaching, and they came in COOL
triangular boxes which could be fastened together for mailing, so it was just
one package no matter how many of the triangles had been taped together.
They'd put three or four per box, and we would roll them backwards and stick
them back in the boxes. Some kids took boxes home, some took them
rubber-banded.
We have Pixar stock and the first few years, they sent posters to
stockholders, in cool triangular boxes. We got them laminated. <g> With lamination,
you can use box tape to put them up and get it off easily.
Without lamination, I put box tape flat on the back in the corners and in
the middle at the top, Then I put a loop of box tape (so it will stick to the
poster and the wall) on that box-taped spot (so I "laminate" just the part
I'm going to tape to) and when it's time to take it down, the spots where the
loops were are still clean and the loops of tape go in the trash.
Or I just tape over the corners, but it's not as pretty and it's harder to
take down.
Sandra
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Clarissa Fetrow
LOL! I've read of so many homeschooling and unschooling projects that
impressed me and I thought this was one of them - I thought you were
doing your own cartography of the earth and asking for the best way to
represent a 3 dimensional sphere 2 dimensionally. As I started writing
this reply, I Googled just for fun, and found the following website.
Clarissa
http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/globgrap.html
THE GLOBAL GRAPEFRUIT
BY: Valerie Stovall
Indianapolis, 6/1990
Purpose:
To introduce the concept of distortion and to learn how different map
projections are to be used.
Teaching level: Grades 3 - 9
Geographic theme: Location
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this lesson the students will be able to:
1. tell how maps differ from globes.
2. state some characteristics of 3 different types of map projections.
3. realize that distortions are inherent in various systems of map
projections
4. understand that there are many types of map projections used for
various purposes.
Materials:
-grapefruit or orange for each student -knife
-pencils
-modeling clay or Play-Doh
-toilet paper rolls -wall
map
-globes
impressed me and I thought this was one of them - I thought you were
doing your own cartography of the earth and asking for the best way to
represent a 3 dimensional sphere 2 dimensionally. As I started writing
this reply, I Googled just for fun, and found the following website.
Clarissa
http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/globgrap.html
THE GLOBAL GRAPEFRUIT
BY: Valerie Stovall
Indianapolis, 6/1990
Purpose:
To introduce the concept of distortion and to learn how different map
projections are to be used.
Teaching level: Grades 3 - 9
Geographic theme: Location
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this lesson the students will be able to:
1. tell how maps differ from globes.
2. state some characteristics of 3 different types of map projections.
3. realize that distortions are inherent in various systems of map
projections
4. understand that there are many types of map projections used for
various purposes.
Materials:
-grapefruit or orange for each student -knife
-pencils
-modeling clay or Play-Doh
-toilet paper rolls -wall
map
-globes
> I thought I'd ask here since surely so many people have maps and[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> posters on their walls. What is the best way you've found to flatten
> a map? I have a large wall map of the US that I flattened by putting
> big books on it on the floor for several days. It never really got to
> the flat and smooth point. Plus the cat loves to lie on any piece of
> paper and you never know when she'll get a hair ball. I just got a
> poster of an Egyptian history timeline and I want to flatten it to the
> completely flat and smooth state. Should I iron it? Would that work?
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Nichole
[email protected]
In a message dated 3/17/2005 8:36:39 AM Mountain Standard Time,
ms_fausey@... writes:
It's the first thing I couldn't find on www.ehow.com ... Sandra, you might
want to submit your answer. :o)
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I couldn't figure out how to send something to ehow, but send it to
wiki-how, which was linked there.
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ms_fausey@... writes:
It's the first thing I couldn't find on www.ehow.com ... Sandra, you might
want to submit your answer. :o)
------------
I couldn't figure out how to send something to ehow, but send it to
wiki-how, which was linked there.
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