The brackets are rarely as “regional” as the names Midwest, West, South and East would suggest; still a map of all the participating teams shows that there a geography to basketball participation. See also this collection of maps visualizing basketball fandom. Also, what about the high schools areas that produce college basketball players? What patterns to you see?
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Chiwa – Mchinji, Malawi Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys.
How are the lives of these children different from those in your neighborhood? How are their lives the same?
See on www.featureshoot.com
See a photo of an aerial view of a terraced rice field in China and download free wallpaper from National Geographic.
This image shows is one of the more beautiful cultural landscapes that shows the great extent of agricultural modifications of the environment. National Geographic’s photo of the day is a great source for images that start class discussions and can enliven class content. You may download a high resolution version of the image here.
Tags: National Geographic, agriculture, landscape, China.
MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank (AP) — The Samaritans, a rapidly dwindling sect dating to biblical times, have opened their insular community to brides imported from eastern Europe in a desperate quest to preserve their ancient culture.
Some folk cultures, such as the Samaritans, have historically intermarried and have been plagued by genetic diseases. Recently, they have turned to global solutions to their local demographic woes. “Five young women from Russia and Ukraine have moved to this hilltop village in recent years to marry local men, breathing new life into the community.”
Tags: folk culture, gender, population, Russia, religion, culture,
Middle East.
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From Moscow to New York via Vilnius and the pyramids of Egypt, St Patrick’s Day is celebrated with parades and a lot of green face paint
Being in Chicago on Saint Patrick’s Day one year was the highlight of my trip. Seeing the river green was truly an impressive sight and the pictures don’t quite do it justice.
See on www.guardian.co.uk
WASHINGTON — With their economies and housing markets gaining strength, some of the nation’s biggest boom-to-bust cities in the Sun Belt are starting to become magnets again, attracting a growing number of people primarily from the northern part…
See on www.latimes.com
Promotional video for AP Human Geography enrollment
This is video is a great tool to drum up interest in an AP Human Geography course produced by David Burton. Similar videos and things designed to promote the discipline and it’s study can be found under the tag, “geo-inspiration.”
Tags: APHG, geo-inspiration.
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This video appeared on National Geographic’s Magazine’s Twitter feed. It said: #Video: Can the American passenger pigeon be resurrected? See how it could be done: http://on.natgeo.com/15OUp1i #deextinction
De-extinction is a new term for to me but this week a TEDx conference hosted by National Geographic focused completely on this concept on the possibility of reviving formerly extinct species. Just because we think we can bring back a lost species, does that mean we should? What would be the benefits? Disadvantages?
I’ve read enough about passenger pigeons to know that beyond overhunting, the species went extinct as large swaths of North American forests became fragmented and modified. While we may be able to theoretically bring back a species, we cannot rewind the clock and bring all the essential ingredients to their former ecosystem that allowed them to thrive in the first place. De-extinction would NOT be repairing the world so that it was as if the extinction never happened, since other species in the ecosystem have adapted to their absence. Given the length of their absence, could these be considered “invasive species?”
Tags: biogeography, environment, National Geographic, environment modify, ecology, historical, TED.
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Google Earth is a great teaching tool for geographers, but it is also a way to bring geography and spatial thinking to other disciplines. Google Lit Trips makes the journeys that take place in literature (both fiction and non-fiction) all the more real by mapping out the movements as a KML file that can be viewed in Google Earth. By embedding pictures, websites, videos and text into the path, this becomes an incredibly interactive resource for teachers of all levels.
Tags: google, virtual tours, English, edtech.
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