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Pretty wild, right? It's a map of Pangea — a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago — mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.
Via Seth Dixon
Estamos acostumbrados a representar nuestro sistema solar mostrando el sol como un punto fijo pero en realidad nuestra estrella se mueve a 225 Km/s en una órbita circular dentro de la galaxia.
Via M. Roman, José Manuel Lara, Juan Arbulu
Los trabajos de investigación llevados a cabo en el Monte Ornedo revelan que el mayor castro cántabro conocido por el momento fue asaltado por las legiones romanas dirigidas por Augusto (Hallan restos d batalla d las #GuerrasCantabras en el...
Via Carlos
90 aniversario del descubrimiento de la tumba de Tutankamón. Propuesta TIC educativa con visitas virtuales interactivas para la clase Geografía e Historia.
Via Educación Castilla-La Mancha
Hiking to the top of Preikestolen (the Pulpit Rock) near Stavanger, Norway. An amazing and wondrous hike. For the inner explorer in all of us, this is a geographic dream. Click here to read more about this fantastic climb from a National Geographic explorer. Tags: Europe, landforms, NationalGeographic.
Via Seth Dixon
"There are a number of apps that are being released that give us direct and instant access to real time data to events and happenings around the world. These apps allow the students in the classroom to have the same data and information that authorities, scientists and researcher have. This is important form the students point of view as it makes the learning more real."
Via John Evans, IES Consaburum, EduClick_España
Interesting map about farming land lending to other countries in Africa. Impossible to find the original source, but is attricuted to the Financial Times. Here is a link to the image (in low res) without political content (UN related): http://new.uneca.org/lpi/africanlandrush.aspx ; Tags: Africa, agriculture, unit 5 agriculture.
Via Seth Dixon
Earlier I have posted the classic image of "Earth Lights at Night," and discussed the classroom uses of the image. This cartogram helps take that analysis one step further. This cartogram helps students to visualize the magnitude of population (with the cartogram adjusting area for population) and then to see the patterns of energy use, global consumption and urbanization with in a new light. Tags: remote sensing, worldwide, consumption, poverty, population, spatial, political, regions.
Via Seth Dixon
This is another old classic image that I might have shared earlier but it merits repeating. As Salvatore Natoli (a leader in geography education) once said, "In our society we unconsciously equate size with importance and even power." This is one reason why many people have underestimated the true size of Africa relative to places that they view as more important or more powerful.
Tags: mapping, Africa, perspective, images.
Via Seth Dixon
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"Learn how advances in geospatial technology and analytical methods have changed how we do everything, and discover how to make maps and analyze geographic patterns using the latest tools."
Via Seth Dixon
The happiest city in America is Napa, California -- and the saddest all swear too much.
Via Seth Dixon
The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Information, directions, prices, map, opening hours and reviews.
Via Juan Arbulu
Mapa interactivo sobre la Historia Europea
Via Juan Arbulu
Las herramientas de aprendizaje para internautas curiosos o para profesores en apuros nunca faltan, y esta vez nos encontramos con una interesante propuesta...
Via Ramon Aragon
Ancient History section of the BBC History website...
Via Juan Arbulu
Robin Good: Easy2maps in a web app which allows you to create your own fully customized Google map by placing information pins on your selected Google map view. Easy2maps can be utilized to map your business, a set of events or an enogastronomic itinerary. The free version allows you place up to 5 personalized "pins" on your map to identify specific locations. Each pin can be customized to contain the type of information you want. Pins can be also searched and used to customize the type of info displayed on a map. A set of ready-map templates is available and final maps can be embedded on any web site or blog. Pricing: http://easy2map.com/pricing.php Features: http://easy2map.com/features.php ; FAQ: http://easy2map.com/questionsAndAnswers.php ; More info: http://easy2map.com/ ;
Via Robin Good, eneko bidegain, Juan Arbulu
Europe Map Puzzle - how fast can you put the countries in place? Where is Slovenia? Learn the geography of Europe.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Juan Arbulu
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