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title: "Contour Line Models"
url: "https://springfieldprimaryacademy.net/blog/2020-10-23-10-31-33-contour-line-models"
school: "Springfield Primary Academy"
---

# Contour Line Models

   23 October 2020   [cwardle](https://springfieldprimaryacademy.net/blog/author/cwardle)   [Years 5 and 6](https://springfieldprimaryacademy.net/blog/category/years-5-and-6)

In Geography, we have been learning about maps.  This week, we learnt about how contour lines show us how high or low the land on the map is.  To demonstrate this, we made models of contour lines and hills.

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