This is more for the teachers than the students, but what is better than an interactive map displaying the locations where Johnny Cash has been while listening to him sing “I’ve Been Everywhere?” (Tech support: Use Google Chrome or Safari to play).
See on www.iainmullan.com
TODALSIGS is an acronym for remembering the most basic elements of good cartography. This interactive briefly explains what each of the letters represents and how it is connected to map-making. If this is either too advanced or too basic for your students, simply run an internet search for the term TODALSIGS to find many other lesson plans and resources that might be more applicable to your institution (including this example-rich slideshow).
See on www.msu.edu
Although these were designed specifically for GIS day during Geography Awareness Week, these 2 map-based treasure hunts from ESRI are excellent. The answer to the question will only pop up in you are zoomed in the the right region (SHIFT + Make a box = Zoom in to that area). These link will take you to the World Cities quiz and also to the Mountains quiz.
See on storymaps.esri.com
New rules announced last week to allow interceptions of ships in the South China Sea are raising concerns in the region, and in Washington, that simmering disputes with Southeast Asian countries over the waters will escalate.
According to this new announcement, Chinese ships would be allowed to search and repel foreign ships if they were engaged in illegal activities (but that is open to interpretation) if the ships were within the 12-nautical-mile zone surrounding islands that China claims. This makes the disputed territorial claims of China all the more at the center of this geopolitical maneuverings. Much of the South China Sea would then be under Chinese control if this announcement become the new reality.
Questions to Ponder: Why is China making this announcement? Is China within their rights to make this declaration? Who might oppose this?
See on www.nytimes.com
The Muslim Brotherhood has been gaining power in several countries since the Arab Spring. The rise of Islamist power in the Middle East is culturally and politically complex. This interactive lets the user click on selected countries to see how groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas are impacting them politically.
Tags: Middle East, religion, Islam, political.
See on www.theglobeandmail.com
This gallery has a fantastic set of images showing Brazil’s poor squatter settlements-the favelas.
See on www.behance.net
Free travel tip and photos from all over the world…
This map is not a professionally produced map and that is the beauty of this website. Virtually anyone can make a 1-feature world map by simply clicking on a checklist all of the countries you want highlighted on your map. Second, open the file and add some text and a few lines to label it. This took less than 20 minutes to make with no need for any cartographic or GIS experience.
See on www.traveltip.org
Who hasn’t dreamed of putting on a spacesuit and exploring the great unknown of space? This interactive feature is about as close as 99.99% of us will ever get to strapping on a spacesuit and making and enjoying an extraterrestrial voyage.
See on www.nasa.gov
There will soon be 7 billion people on the planet. Find out why you shouldn’t panic—at least, not yet.
This whole year, National Geographic has been producing materials on the impacts of a growing global population (including this popular and powerful video). Now that the year has (almost) concluded, all of these resources are archived in here. These resources are designed to answers some of our Earth’s most critical questions: Are there too many people on the planet? What influences women to have fewer children? How will we cope with our changing climate? Are we in ‘the Age of Man?’ Can we feed the 7 billion of us? Are cities the cure for our growing pains? What happens when our oceans become acidic? Is there enough for everyone?
Tags: population, National Geographic, sustainability, density.
See on ngm.nationalgeographic.com
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