{"id":4736,"date":"2016-02-16T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2016-02-16T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:48:22","slug":"world-population-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"World Population Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"World<\/a>Last November’s theme of the Super Science Saturday<\/a> at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History<\/a> was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube<\/a> which I created a few years ago.
\nCubic globes<\/a> are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map, and more importantly, they allow for some activity which get the kids involved just as much as adults. A cube is much less work than creating a spheric version of Earth, and (as said by Carlos Furuti on his online cube globe collection<\/a>) the cube is an ideal introduction to folding one’s own pseudoglobes<\/em>.
\nAt last November’s Super Science Saturday I displayed some of my work and offered a ‘Map Cube Activity’ where children (and adults) could cut, fold and glue their own globes. My version of a map cube does not display a normal world map, but a gridded population cartogram<\/a> (hence the name ‘World Population Cube’). You can create your own cube by using the following template:<\/p>\n

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\n(view larger image<\/a> – download as pdf<\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n

Now go, print out this template, craft your own cube, take a photo of it and post it on Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and\/or Facebook<\/a> with the hashtag #mapcube<\/strong>. I would love to see your own creations (and will put some of the best ones that I find on display at this page)!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here are some more impressions from the Super Science Saturday event (courtesy of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History<\/a>):
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