:Blackbeards' Map
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:   Interpreting a map 
Resources:  Map in resource book
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Questions/instructions:

Here is a treasure map left by the pirate Blackbeard.

[click on map to enlarge]
 
% responses
y4
y8
If you stood on Lookout Peak, what hill would you see to the South?
Hopscotch Hill
77
95
Name the bay that is closest to Captain’s Cave.
Barnacle Bay
79
95

Instructions to find the buried treasure

Stand so that you are facing Wiggly Woods with Dark Woods behind you.
Shipwreck Bay should be on your right. Captain’s Cave should be on your left.
Find the house on your right. The treasure is halfway between it and the nearest tree.

Here are Blackbeard’s instructions for
finding treasure.

    
1. Put a cross where you would dig for treasure on the map.
cross where treasure is
31
65
2. Draw a line to show the shortest way to walk from your boat in Shipwreck Bay to the treasure.
shortest route
63
80
3. You don’t want someone to follow you to the treasure. Mark a route from your boat to the treasure. It must go through Honeycomb Hill but does NOT go through Wiggly Woods.
route from boat to treasure
43
69
 
Total score:



5
15
46
4
25
27
3
22
15
2
21
9
0–1
17
3
Commentary:
Year 8 students were more successful than year 4 students on all aspects of interpreting the map. All students found it more difficult to follow detailed instructions to find a location than to identify straightforward details of the map. 
 
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