Buddy Hield grew up in the Bahamas with six siblings, building his own hoop as a youngster. His sister, Coco, says Hield “brought life to all of us.”
Source: espn.go.com
Here is some geographic context for the biggest star in the NCAA’s Final Four basketball tournament.
Our world is a complex network of people, places and things. Here are 32 maps will teach you something new about our interconnected planet.
Source: twistedsifter.com
Some of these maps are more compellling than others (like all lists like this) but some are really telling. The map above shows the dense concentration of tech corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.
Tags: technology, map, map archive.
After years of teaching, speaking and publishing in an effort to convey the breadth and nuance of Africa’s thousands of cultural groups, earlier today, two weary professors gave up the fight to convince Americans that Africa is not, in fact, a country.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
This was the best of the April Fool’s Day articles. And no, will we never concede and we will fight on, because that’s what teachers do.
“The Popocatépetl volcano, situated in Puebla, Mexico, erupted between March 28 and 29, spewing hot ash and gas into the atmosphere. According to reports, a 7-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the volcano.” Credit: www.webcamdemexico.com
Source: www.youtube.com
This visually spectacular (but in terms of damage, fairly harmless) eruption is a sight to behold…especially knowing that Puebla and Mexico City aren’t too far from the smoldering giant. If your students have ever asked, “What does a volcanic eruption look like?” then you’ve got something ready to go.
For a brief time in American tourism, travel was about the journey. Here’s how it came to be about the destination.
Source: www.citylab.com
Route 66 holds a special place in the America’s collective soul and taps into a feelings of nostaglia for a bygone era…but we don’t really want to go back to that time (hence the economic decline of these withering small towns). “In 1956, Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System effectively bypassed Route 66. The straight-lined, speedy interstates often bifurcated cities. They also cut paths far from Route 66’s small, idiosyncratic towns. The rise of modern air travel also diminished the appeal of the winding, open road. Yet it was not only new modes of transportation that faded Route 66; it was also a changing definition of ‘vacation.’ Disneyland and Las Vegas staked their claims to the American travel budget in the mid ’50s. Suddenly, the ‘there’ took precedence over the ‘getting there.'”
Just 15 years ago, cross-border digital flows were almost non-existent. Today, they exert a larger impact on global economic growth than traditional flows of goods, which developed over centuries.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Yes, globalization. For many people, that word conjures up, at best, images of container ships moving manufactured goods from far-flung factories. At worst, it harkens back to acrid debates about trade deficits, currency wars and jobs moving to China. In fact, since the Great Recession of 2008, the global flow of goods and services has flattened, and cross-border capital flows have declined sharply. But globalization overall isn’t on the wane. Like so much in our world today, it has reinvented itself by going digital.”
Tags: technology, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic.
Map and explanation of the crisis in the EU’s Schengen Area, where many countries have temporarily reintroduced border controls.
Over the past months, concern has been rising that Europe’s border-free travel zone, known as the Schengen Area, is falling apart. As unprecedented numbers of refugees and other migrants enter the Schengen Area, individual member countries have begun to re-start border checks in the places where they abolished them decades ago.
Tags: borders, political, Europe, supranationalism, refugees.
Source: www.polgeonow.com
“The special APHG issue of the Journal of Geography (Volume 115, Issue 3) has 11 articles that are all focused on APHG.”
Source: www.tandfonline.com
With 11 superb articles from leaders in the APHG community, this issue of the Journal of Geography is a MUST HAVE for all APHG teachers (all NCGE members can digitally access it). If you aren’t an NCGE member yet, this alone is reason to become one today).
On Saturday, July 30, 2016, members of the AP Human Geography Development Committee will present a workshop for high school AP teachers during the annual conference of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). The workshop will take place between 8:00 A.M. and 12:15 P.M. at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel. The cost of the workshop is included in the NCGE conference attendance fee. A special conference rate is available for Florida teachers. Early-bird registration ends April 1st so act now.
Tags: NCGE, APHG, geography education, teacher training.
Learn more about the National Parks BioBlitz 2016 events, from National Geographic.
Source: www.nationalgeographic.com
The network of geographic alliances will be working on a BioBlitz national initiative in 2016. This article highlights two mobile apps that will enable users to use their smartphones to explore and archive the natural world around them and run an awesome BioBlitz.
Tags: National Geographic, physical, biogeography, environment, edtech.
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