Some times you just want to write on the world. Don't have much room for a full white board or maybe you think chalk boards are outdated and take up too much invaluable wall space? Why not build yourself a handy desktop Idea Globe™!
Ingredients: 1. Used classroom globe (in this case my wife bought me one from target for x-mas). 2. Chalkboard Paint 3. Spackle 4. Newspapers 5. Gesso (with squirt of black acrylic paint). 6. Coat Hanger - Link
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Jan 2, 2007 12:43 AM
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The Science Museum of Minnesota has one of these... on a much larger scale... in its "legacy" collection. The plaque states that sales never really took off, and it's hard to blame a school for passing on a giant spherical blackboard.
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I have a larger one of these in my schoolhouse.
It has black continents, blue oceans, and no placenames.
I presume students were supposed to label the continents.
It has a kind of "world without borders" cool.
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Cool idea. I helped my son make a tool box for scouts and we pained it with blackboard paint so he could decorate or just scribble.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65896781@N00/?saved=1
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I just linked this to my new blog. It's so creative!!! Thanks for sharing.
littlelizardking.blogspot.com
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