How to draw a plan with a diagram
For work, prepare a Whatman paper, a ruler, sharpen pencils. To make it easier, take a map or open the Google Maps application.
You can draw a route from school to home with your child Photo: Getty Here are step-by-step instructions for the work:
- Draw a frame on the sheet. In its center, draw the main road with a wide stripe, and the adjoining roads with thin stripes. Draw all the houses with rectangles, one of which is yours.
- In the upper corner of the diagram, schematically depict the school building and the schoolyard.
- Pencil in a different color draw pedestrian paths.
- Cross the house and school. Connect the end points of the route with the dotted line.
- Mark on the child's way zebras and traffic lights where he will cross the road.
- Complete the drawing of all the other objects that the child passes by - parks, supermarkets, office buildings, etc.
- In clear and large letters, sign all the objects.
If you wish, you can color the picture to make it more interesting for your child.
Useful Tips for Drawing a Safe Card
Here are a few more things to consider:
- If you can go to school in several different ways, choose the safest option, that is, where the less busy road, there are no dark alleys, and so on.
- For legend, you can use not only common icons, but also those that your child will invent. So it will be easier for him to remember how the map is arranged, what and where is located.
- You can highlight particularly dangerous areas on the route in red and sign them with the word "danger". For example, you can mark abandoned houses, construction sites and other similar places this way.
- At least once pass with the child along the traced route, armed with your drawing. You can also cut out a little man from the paper and draw it along the drawing, playing a role-playing game.
- Turn the process of drawing a route into a game. The child should be interested in that he does not perceive this task as a routine task.
Don't forget to check if your child knows the rules.traffic for pedestrians before letting him go on the drawn route for the first time. He should clearly know which traffic light to cross the road on, what to do if the traffic light is not working, etc. Hang the drawing in a visible place so that the child can remember it. Let the safest route home be imprinted in his mind.
