Let's Make A Map (1964)

Mr Johnson is planning a family trip to plan his trip he uses a map maps show where places are and how to get from one place to another [Music] Maps can be very useful on this map Mr Johnson can find where places are and he can find how to go from one place to another the map shows him whether places are close together or far apart Tommy decides to make a map of his own a map of the way he goes to school and comes home again he leaves his house which is on a corner every place he passes will have to be shown on his map so he looks carefully at the house next door next is his friend Nancy's house next door to ny's house is a white house next to the houses there's a store on the corner after walking by the store Tommy and Nancy pass the school playground then they go around another corner finally they reach [Music] school to help him make his map Tommy's parents have told him that after school he can go home another way when he walks around the next corner he passes an apartment house Tommy is back home he has walked all around the block to go to school and come home again Tommy is going to start his map by using small cardboard buildings he has put his own house down on the corner he knows that the greyh house is next door to his house so Tommy puts down a gray cardboard house he knows that next door to the greyh house is nany's house and next to that is the White House so Tommy puts down Nancy's house and the house next to it Tommy knows that next to the house houses is the store on the corner since the store is bigger than the houses Tommy's cardboard store is also bigger Tommy remembers that next he and Nancy pass the school playground this big sheet of paper will be the playground he remembers they then reached School the school is much bigger than the store or the houses Tommy knows that next to the school is the apartment house so he puts down the apartment house now Tommy can find his house Nancy's house which is close to his the store which is farther away and the school he can find the way he went to school and came home again Tommy left his house passed the other houses and went around the store on the corner he passed the playground and reached school on the way home he left school went by the apartment house and reached home now instead of cardboard buildings Tommy is going to use colored pieces of wood to show the buildings he knows that next to his house there are three more houses so he puts down one piece of wood and another and another these are the houses Tommy knows that next to the houses is the store on the corner so he puts down a bigger piece of wood for the store he remembers the school ground the school and the apartment house so he puts down the school ground pieces of wood for the school and more pieces of wood for the apartment house now Tommy can find everything on his block he can find his house Nancy's house the store the school and the apartment house he can find the way he went to school and the way he came home [Music] because most maps are flat Tommy is going to replace the pieces of wood with strips of cloth the smaller strips of cloth are the houses the store is a bigger strip of cloth the school is biggest of all the apartment is smaller than the school but bigger than the houses again Tommy can find all the buildings on his block can you find Tommy's house where is the school and the apartment house can you find the way Tommy went to school and came home again instead of looking down on the floor at his block Tommy is going to look at it this way he can still see all the places he could see before now Tommy is going to draw a picture of his block this kind of picture is called a map on it Tommy can see that some places are close to his house and some places are farther away he can see that some places are big and other places are small Tommy shows his father the way he went to school and came home again can you make a map of the block your school is on [Music]