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Women’s Political Rights

International Women’s Day: political rights around the world mapped

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

This is late for International Women’s Day, but it is never a wrong time to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of the expansion of women’s political rights.  This interactive map is excellent for seeing these few metrics, but a more expanded dataset with maps concerning gender (in)equality in the world and the status of women is WomanStats.  

Tags: gender, mapping, statistics, political.

See on www.guardian.co.uk

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What If the Entire World Lived in 1 City?

Two Yale architects pose the question in an ambitious research project.


“Hsiang and Mendis have increasingly come to believe that the only way to study and plan for our urban planet is to conceptualize its entire population in one seamless landscape – to picture 7 billion of us as if we all lived in a single, massive city.”

See on www.theatlanticcities.com

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Augmented Reality Sandbox

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. …

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Many of our first experiments of creating landforms and designing a new world started in the sandbox.  This video shows how that early childhood activity can make for an excellent classroom demonstration to shows how Earth’s physical systems work.  If you have a digital topographic map to superimpose on the sandbox and a GPU-based water simulation, then you’ve got this fantastic video.  Click here to learn more about this UC Davis project on the visualization of lake ecosystems.

Tags: water, physical, geomorphology, landforms, visualization.

See on www.youtube.com

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Welcome to ‘Geography Education’

Finding Materials: This site is designed for geography students and teachers to find interesting, current supplemental materials.  To search for place-specific posts, browse this interactive map.  To search for thematic posts, see https://geographyeducation.org/thematic/ (organized by the APHG curriculum).  Also you can search for a keyword by clicking on the filter tab above.

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Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

I hope that you enjoy the content and materials that you find on this website.  This represents the best news, materials and resources that I have found that can be used in geography (and other) classrooms. 

See on www.arcgis.com

Globe Regions

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Central Place Theory

Central Places:Theory and Applications produced by Ken Keller (kellek@danbury.k12.ct.us) adapted from Don Ziegler.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

The Central Place Theory is a model that is not used much today in academic geography, but given it’s explicitly spatial nature, it is used in many geography curricula (including AP Human Geography) to show systems thinking and spatial patterns.  This powerpoint goes over the main ideas of the theory developed by Walter Christaller as well as some examples.  

Tags: APHG, models, spatial. 

See on www.slideshare.net

CPT

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Education Around the World

“A glimpse inside the life of students from Senegal to Vietnam and China.”

See on www.takepart.com

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Exploration

I have a longstanding obsession with J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit,’ starting with the great 1977 animated film that captured my young imagination.  Hobbits are content to be intensely local and ignore the world beyond their neighborhood until Gandalf instills in Bilbo and subsequently Frodo to learn about the wider world.  I’ve always seen that as push for all of us to get to know more about the world, and to experience it first-hand.  Sometimes academic geographic forgets the explorer component of geographic inquiry and discovery and it is these geographic quotes from the movies and books that I wish to share.

See on geographyeducation.org

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SimCity EDU

SimCityEDU – Create & Share SimCity Learning Tools

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

I will confess that I have personally never played SimCity, but I do know educators that have tapped into that gaming experience to teach spatial thinking and some principles of urban planning.  This link is designed with those teachers in mind.  

Tags: urban, planning, spatial, unit 7 cities, edtech.

See on www.simcityedu.org

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McDonald’s® Packaging

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

The packaging on the McDonald’s fry box states, “Why are our fries the gold standard? Because only a select number of potato varieties make the cut. I’m lovin’ it®”  This is a message is primarily aimed at millions of individual consumers.  As geographers who analyze systems, we can look at this message for meaning beyond taste and quality control in how it affect both urban and rural places.  Given that McDonald’s is the United States’ largest purchaser of potatoes, what are the economic and agricultural implications for their fry selection on the market(s)?  How does this impact farmers, consumers, competitors and other groups?   

See on mcdepk.com

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