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Made in the US by National Geographic this clip provides inspirational imagery and an introduction to the idea of Geo-literacy - might be one to show to year 8's or 9's when it comes to choosing GCSE options.
Geo-literacy extends far beyond knowing where places are on a map, it entails spatial thinking skills and understanding systems in addition to content knowledge about locations and places. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Free and open access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of economic and development data. Browse, map, graph, or download data by country, topic on over 4,000 indicators. Available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic.
The World Bank eAtlas suite of user-friendly, interactive electronic atlases, allows users to map and graph dozens of indicators over time and across countries. Via Paola Rattu Delete the scoop?
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Communities that lie on the outskirts of what’s slated to be Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park have been marked for removal in order to make way for infrastructure projects. Delete the scoop?
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This map shows national estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations. It's an example of the kind of maps you can build using the chartsbin.com site and the best bit is that it's completely free. Delete the scoop?
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Poverty and government policies have forced many Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake to leave the tent camps and return to severely damaged houses in danger of collapse. Delete the scoop?
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Stunning images from the world's greatest photojournalists. Delete the scoop?
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Some of the world's most stunning sites as seen from outer space. Delete the scoop?
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The population of the planet reached seven billion in October last year, according to the United Nations. But what's the figure for all those who have lived before us? Delete the scoop?
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Explore scale and geographies of perception by comparing the area affected by various events to an area that's more familiar... Delete the scoop?
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BBC News looks at how time zones affect all of our lives... Delete the scoop?
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Peter Menzel's beautiful photography and our Hungry Planet... A great insight into how global consumption and nutrition patterns are changing. Delete the scoop?
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The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods in Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its... Delete the scoop?
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When access to clean drinking water is an issue, it creates a web of developmental problems for a community. For a video with more information about water/development statistics by the organization http://charitywater.org see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHhwxvQqxg&feature=player_embedded Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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This is a great video to help with teaching issues around conflict. Delete the scoop?
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Film-makers Nick Francis and Marc Silver travelled with Amnesty International to a refugee camp in Tunisia where they met Omar, a Somali teenager...
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You might love your ipad, but what's life like for the people who make them? Delete the scoop?
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Brazilian city's $20bn vision for football World Cup and Olympic Games leaves slum-dwellers in the lurch. Delete the scoop?
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Coldplay's haunting classic 'The Scientist' is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of the short film entitled, "Back to the St...
Sure this is an animated commercial for Chipotle Grill, but this perfectly encapsulates the beliefs, values and ethics that underscore the organic farming movement. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Energy Realities a great series of interactive resources for discovering the history and future of population growth, energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Delete the scoop?
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A Geography of photography - this map uses data from Google Maps to give some idea of the most photographed places in the world. Delete the scoop?
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Use this comprehensive map to find out just how many people have been killed or injured in road accidents near you - a great way to engage your students with local fieldwork.
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Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, according to new research.
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This is a video introduction to www.historypin.com which might just prove to be an very useful and important project. It's historical geography powered by colloborative mapping that is infused with social media dynamics. Backed by Google, they are geotagging old photos to recreate the historical geographies of all places and comparing them with current streetview images. You can search by topic, place or date...this has the potential to be very big.
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's comment, November 16, 2011 4:13 PM
Absolutely brilliant! The possibilities that this offers are staggering. If museums, galleries, and archives all got on board with this, they could create an incredible database that would allow teachers to add so much more depth to their lessons. I feel like having a visual timeline paired with geographic references in this capacity would give students (and everyone else!) a stronger understanding of how deeply history and geography are connected.
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November 16, 2011 6:40 PM
Agreed, this is conceptually amazing...but what a vast undertaking. I'm half-tempted to upload some pictures but I know that I've got too many pet projects at the moment and think that this one has the potential to overwhelm me time-wise.
's comment, November 17, 2011 3:37 PM
Awesome site! As an aspiring teacher, this website can be great for then and now projects. When explaining different eras or time periods this not only shows where certain things took place, but what they looked like as well. Definitely something that will become more popular in the social media aspect of society. Definitely a site I can spend hours on.
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