GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

Election results

PRE-ELECTION: Live election results from The Huffington Post. Romney vs. Obama, Senate, House and ballot measures.

This is one of many election maps that I am continually refreshing. When I lived in California I would always try to stay up for the results–now that I’m on the East Coast I don’t think that is going to happen tonight.

See on elections.huffingtonpost.com. Click on each state for county level analysis.

POST ELECTION:

For some historical comparisons, see the Real Clear Politics map, and change the election years.
To think internationally about the impact of this election, see the BBC’s African analysis.
To see some of the demographic trends among voters see this Washington Post article.
To see some local Rhode Island maps, see the Providence Journal’s interactive voting map.

November 6, 2012 0

Where Does the South Begin?

Roads? Religion? Accent? Food? Which factor dictates where the North ends?

This is a great intellectual expercise to help student think about regions and how we define them. The article can help also inform some of their thinking since one of the main problems for students in drawing regional boundaries is lack of place-based knowledge.

Tags: regions, USA.

See on www.theatlantic.com

November 6, 2012 0

The Conflict in Syria

Brown University’s Choices Program has many excellent resources for social studies teachers including “Teaching with the News.” Many teachers are seeing the importance of Syria, but might lack the regional expertise to put it in context or to the time to link it with the curriculum. If that is the case (and even if it is not), this is the perfect place to find lesson plans on the ongoing Syrian conflict.

Tags: political, MiddleEast, conflict, war.

See on www.choices.edu

November 6, 2012 0

Manhattan Evacuation Plan Reveals Island’s Old Contours

Topography and elevation matters. We can dry to make water dry ground (and vice versa), but not without future consequences.

See on www.manhattanpast.com

November 5, 2012 0

Ingrid Dabringer’s Map Paintings: Finding Whimsy in Geography

This is a great gallery of clever artwork that puts the “art” in cartography (The Earth without art is just “eh).

See on www.brainpickings.org

November 5, 2012 0

Election Maps

Listed here are the top choices for election maps for keeping an eye on election results and twitter maps.

Just a friendly reminder to vote tomorrow for those of you in the United States.

See on gislounge.com

November 5, 2012 0

British have invaded nine out of ten countries

Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.

This is a great map to show the historical impact of colonialism on the world map. The map is based on the work in the new book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To.

Tags: book reviews, colonialism, war, historical, UK.

See on www.telegraph.co.uk

November 5, 2012 0

Outside the Amtrak Window, a Picture of the U.S. Economy

The death and life of the industrial corridor linking New York and Washington.

This article is a great example of analyzing the landscape to observe changes in any given place. This corridor is home to 8 of the 10 wealthiest counties; at the same time this transportation corridor is also home a half a dozen of the country’s most broken cities. Exploring this area is way to analyze the changing economic geographies of the United States. For a visual representation of these same themes, see this 5 minute video that corresponds to this NY Times magazine article.

Tags: industry, economy, unit 6 industy, transportation, neighborhood, landscape.

See on www.nytimes.com

November 4, 2012 0

Twitter Languages in London

This map is a fantastic geovisualization that maps the spatial patterns of languages used on the social media platform Twitter. This was inspired by a Twitter map of Europe. While most cities would be expected to be linguistically homogenous, but London’s cosmopolitan nature and large pockets of immigrants impact the distributions greatly.

Tags: social media, language, neighborhood, visualization, cartography.

See on spatialanalysis.co.uk

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