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We speak student! So you want to make mess well it ain't easy you'll need a whole lot of

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skills a steady hand great attention to detail a few dozen chocolate bars hey [a girl studying a map with a huge stack of chocolate bars]

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sustenance is important but most importantly you'll need knowledge of

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scaling as you might remember the idea behind scaling is to take something

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really big and represent in a way that's incredibly accurate but a lot smaller [a young boy screaming with his hands in the air]

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which fun fact is one of the main ideas behind maps while we might get lost in a

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huge city a map of the city gives us a much smaller representation of it that [a distressed boy looking at a map of the city]

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we can hold in our hand and figure out where we're going oh and word to the wise

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most city maps don't tell you where all the piles of garbage are so you [a big pile of garbage in a park]

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still need to watch where you're going we can see how this works if we take a

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look at a map of this park the first thing will probably notice is that the

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maps way smaller the actual park this allows us to see where stuff is at a [lots of people walking and playing in a park]

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glance instead of having to run all over the park just to find out where the

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benches are will also notice that all the real life objects in the park are

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[a big turning windmill in a park] shown in the map just smaller for example see that long narrow trail that

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runs all the way through the park the map includes a smaller similar shape so

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then the people know hey this park has a long narrow trail in it and although the [people walking down a narrow paved trail in a park]

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map is pretty nifty we'd recommend jogging the real trail if you want to

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get some exercise it's hard to get your heart rate up if you only jog the half [a child in their bedroom jogging]

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second it takes to get across the map another thing we notice is that the map

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shows the relative sizes of different real-world objects take a look at these

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pools in the park one pool is really big well the other is a much smaller kiddie [birds eye view of two different sized swimming pools]

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pool and wouldn't you know it our map also contains two pools a big one and a

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much smaller one which one you decide to swim in well that's up to you but [young girl falling in a swimming pool backwards]

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remember use the real thing you'd look pretty silly trying to swim on the map

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