This a visually stunning video montage with clips compiled from the Discovery Channel's series "Planet Earth."
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We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards. This is a set of 10 activities that all use New York Times resources are all connected to the National Geography Standards and applicable to any social studies classroom. It's great to see geography getting this publicity in the NY Times, but it's fantastic to have these easy-to-use ideas for the classroom that are rich in content.
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Mapa de localización de los trenes de Media y Larga Distancia de España... This maps shows nicely how mapping and spatial thinking can promote lead towards better logistics and improved transportation. The real-time updates and schedules shows that social media and mobile devices are promoting greater innovation. Via Seth Dixon 
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December 31, 2012 9:05 AM
This dynamic "trains in real time" map facilitates travel planning for the literary tourist or pilgrim who is keen to cover all of the major literary haunts of Spain, including sites depicted in Miguel de Cervantes' acclaimed Don Quixote, The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, and others. Delete the scoop?
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The natural landscapes shown as captured by satellite imagery is as beautiful as anything artists have ever created. Some of the colors shown in the video may seem otherworldy. Most of those color anomalies are due to the fact that remotely sensed images have more information in them than just what we see in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some of these images are processed to show different bands so we can visually interpret data such as what is in the near infra-red band, skewing the color palette. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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See on Scoop.it – Geography Education “Real time statistics for current population of any country. Real time data on population, births, deaths, net migration and population growth.” This site shows various demographic ... Delete the scoop?
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Mapa de localización de los trenes de Media y Larga Distancia de España... This maps shows nicely how mapping and spatial thinking can promote lead towards better logistics and improved transportation. The real-time updates and schedules shows that social media and mobile devices are promoting greater innovation. Via Seth Dixon
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December 31, 2012 9:05 AM
This dynamic "trains in real time" map facilitates travel planning for the literary tourist or pilgrim who is keen to cover all of the major literary haunts of Spain, including sites depicted in Miguel de Cervantes' acclaimed Don Quixote, The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, and others. Delete the scoop?
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The term "street view" in Google Maps is continually getting stretched as the world's oceans, canyons, mountains and even cemeteries are being added to this ever-expanding database.
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This a visually stunning video montage with clips compiled from the Discovery Channel's series "Planet Earth." Via Seth Dixon
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Subway maps distort the reality on the ground for all kinds of reasons. What happens when we make decisions based on them? (Are our transit maps tricking us? Delete the scoop?
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