Map Drawing - Next Phase - Outline Map

So we've mastered the "blob map" and now we've moved on to the Outline Map.  "Mastered" to me was that she could tell me the 5 Great Circles, Could draw them along with the blobs in the correct places - free hand.  Here is the next step we are on...

First we are tracing the outline of the World Map from CC Connected.

I have her tape down the tracing paper to the table so the paper doesn't move on her.

 She traces her Equator Line and her Prime Meridian and label them or initial them if you want to make it easier for them.

Next she traces just a darkened outline of the larger bodies of land for the 7 Continents.  I don't worry about having her trace the little islands....

I have begun a Cycle 1 Maps Lapbook of sorts.  This is where I have the maps I want her to work on drawing this year.

I've found grid paper on CC Connected for Map Drawing as well as Maps with grid backgrounds for the World and Africa maps for Cycle 1.  I then glued them to the lapbook in a manner that makes tracing them or free handing with a dry erase marker easy.  Such as below....

Then I used the peel and stick lamination you can buy from Staples to apply a surface that she could dry erase mark over and not have to use tracing paper.  

 

 Additional maps that we will work on later this year above.....

This is the final draw and two different maps she did.  The first one pictured was her first attempt. 

This map is the one that she's now working towards which has all the full names of the Continents and Oceans written out, the Prime Meridian and Equator labeled and the direction compass.  We do some quizzing after she draws.  Questions like "Is South American East or West of Africa?" and have her start orientating herself with directions N/S/E/W.