Student Host Blog Takeover

One of our Student Hosts, Daisy, wrote a blog post for her Discovery Plus class so we could get an inside look at at what they're up to this week - thanks Daisy! 

Our Discovery Plus students have been enjoying both an exciting, yet a little messy week so far!

Their theme for the week is Space and in the Humanities course have been focusing on geographical space. They have been studying different map projections and how countries actually differ in size depending on the map one is looking at.  

The students explored both the Mercator Projection Map and the Peters Projection Map and identifying the problems found in each of them. This provoked a lot of stimulating and interesting discussion amongst the students.   

Students worked in pairs to peel an orange to try and create a flat map of the world, which helped the students to acknowledge the difference between a globe and flat maps.