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Tropical Diseases: The New Plague of Poverty

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Extreme poverty in the United States is giving rise to a group of infections known as the neglected tropical diseases, which we ordinarily think of as confined to developing countries.

 

Poor Americans are more likely to contract tropical diseases such as Chagas disease and dengue fever.  Question to ponder: what geographic factors (physical and human) lead poor people in the United States to be more heavily impacted by the spread to these diseases?

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Why should I be interested in Geography?


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A video made by David Lambert et al showing why Geography is a key subject and the importance of understanding it in the context of our modern world.

This is a creative video that promotes geo-literacy.  It is an excellent way to kick off a new school year if you are looking for a ‘hook’ to demonstrate the importance of geography to students today.  Other materials of this nature can be found on this website under the tag ‘geo-inspiration.’

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19th Amendment: Women’s Suffrage

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92 years ago today, women gained the right to vote in the United States.  Here is a link to the documents that made this happen .

 

 

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Prophetic 1995 Student Internet PSA

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This Public Service Announcement (PSA) was produced in 1995 by the 5th grade students at Ray Bjork school in Helena Montana. The production equipment was mad…

This video pretty accurately describes how we use the internet today, even down to the obsession with cat-related content.

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“Political Landscapes”

While touring Kevin Babola’s art studio yesterday, I found this thought-provoking piece entitled ‘Political Landscapes.’ I greatly enjoyed my conversation with the artist about the political, economic and urban visions that went into this painting.  The conceptual idea behind this painting started when the artist was exploring the neighborhoods of New Bedford, MA and noticed how a sense of place can change very quickly. I dare say most cities have areas similar to the one portrayed here where the socioeconomic character changes very abruptly. While physically it might be very easy to cross from the side of the street with tenements to the neighborhood with single family homes, making that transition permanent is incredibly difficult.

Questions to ponder: what leads to cities having abrupt changes in the urban fabric? What might this chasm represent to people on either side of the divide? How does this impact the neighborhood institutions (schools, local government, etc.)?  Please visit the artist’s webpage.

See on Scoop.it – Geography Education  See on www.kbolaillustration.com

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Real-time Earthquake Map

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards…

This map represents the 1079 earthquakes with magnitudes higher than 2.5 that have occured in the last 30 days.  You can customize the map to display different data at any scale.  There is detailed information about each earthquake in this great dataset.

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Using satellite images, 5th and 6th grade students learn about human impact on environment

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“With the help of satellite images fifth and sixth grade students at Mr. Tim Blum’s geography class at the University of Wyoming Lab School got a birds-eye view of how humans have impacted or modified their environments. Images acquired by satellites decades apart showed cleared forests, irrigated crop fields in the middle of the deserts, altered landscapes (new roads and water bodies), and urban growth.”

 

SD: Geospatial technologies can sound daunting for teachers that don’t feel that they are specialists. Yet there are simple ways to make sophisticated technologies very relevant to just about any grade level as this article demonstrates. 

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The Human and Natural World


While I do enjoy this video, it is especially interesting in in how it conceptualizes the world in the two frames.  Urban, human, civilized society on one side, with natural, unsettled wilderness on the other.  The video attempts to bridge the divide, hoping that more people will see more interconnections between the human/urban world and the natural/wildlife world.  While geographers recognize that all elements of the planet are interconnected, most people still think of the world through dichotomies such as these: civilization vs. wilderness, cultural vs. natural and human vs. animal.  How do these terms shape our thinking about the world?

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Mapping American Stereotypes

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There are plenty of regional biases about other places.  This map was generated by Google autocomplete.  If you Google, “Why is Rhode Island so….” if will automatically suggest some responses.  This was done for all the states and these autoresponses are quite revealing (and often humorous). 

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