GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

Have we mapped the whole planet? As Rachel Nuwer discovers, there are mysterious, poorly charted places everywhere, but not for the reasons you might think.

Tags:  mapping, cartography.  

Source: www.bbc.com

“The Supreme Court’s decision means marriage equality is now the law of the land in the US. But whether states allow same-sex couples to marry immediately or days or weeks from now will depend on the actions of local and state officials, who could delay the final effect of the decision for a few days or weeks.”

Tags: sexuality, USA, map, political.

Source: www.vox.com

You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct:
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461...

Tags: culture, race.

Source: www.youtube.com

“How we occupy and move through space is based on many cultural norms and many of those norms and assumptions are based on gender.” 

Tags: space, gender, place, cultural norms, culture, perspective.

Source: geographyeducation.org

“The idea for creating dynamic online teaching maps came up after one of our teacher friends expressed her frustration over how difficult it was to find just the right learning map for particular topic.”

Source: www.worksheetworks.com

One of the problems with so many outline maps for classroom use is that, depending on your lesson plan, you might want it labeled, showing surrounding countries or in color…but maybe not.  This site lets you customize these simple maps that are perfect for the K-12 classroom (and yes, they have maps for all regions of the world).  If you want online map quizzes for a regional geography course, these are my favorites.     

Tags: K12, map, map archives. 

Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film.  Pictured above is the Packard Plant; luxury-auto maker Packard produced its last car here in 1956.  To see more work by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, visit their website.

Source: content.time.com

“Create a Map of all the places you’ve been.”

Source: map1.maploco.com

After the Civil War, members of the Confederacy fled to Brazil. Their ancestors still live in the region and continue to fly the Confederate flag.

Source: www.pri.org

While people debate why the southern states actually seceded, there are many who still honor what they see as the gallantry of genteel southern society in the Southern Hemisphere.  It is important to note that Brazil was chosen as the home of this ‘Confederacy in Exile’ because it was the last western country to abolish slavery (1888 it ended there too).  Here is another article discussing the the Brazilian enclaves of ‘Confederados,’ or children of the unreconstructed South.   

Tags: Brazil, historical, the South, landscape.