The winners have been named in the 2012 National Geographic Photography contest. As a leader in capturing the world through brilliant imagery, National Geographic sets the standard for photographic excellence.
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April 11, 1:54 PM
Climographs chart the monthly temperature and rainfall data and are a useful tool is studying climatology. Here are links to dozens of selected United States and International cities that come from the National Drought Mitigation Center. The image above is a climograph of Providence, RI. Tags: physical, weather and climate, Rhode Island, statistics, visualization. Delete the scoop?
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January 15, 3:03 PM
Are you a high school teacher looking for some funds for your classroom? The My Community, Our Earth: Global Connections and Exchange Program (PDF) is connecting high school students in the U.S. with their peers abroad (in Bolivia, Ghana, Nicaragua and the Philippines) through virtual online meetings. The Association of American Geographers is especially eager to have AP Human Geography teachers participate in this program. These meetings are arranged through online video conferences, online phone calls and chat sessions using Skype. The purpose of these meetings is to stimulate thinking and collaboration between high school students across international borders around sustainable development themes such as climate change, green economy, food security and hazards and vulnerability, while enriching cultural literacy. We are looking for formal and informal educators in the U.S., at the high school level, who would like to participate with us. Ready to Participate? Please send e-mails to mycoe@aag.org. Tags: AAG, teacher training, APHG. 
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The winners have been named in the 2012 National Geographic Photography contest. As a leader in capturing the world through brilliant imagery, National Geographic sets the standard for photographic excellence. Via Seth Dixon 
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January 9, 4:50 AM
This image of the Matterhorn was the 1st place winner in the "places" category in the National Geographic's 2012 competition. The winners are just as impressive as you would expect coming from National Geographic. Wow....these should prove very useful for K, T and A classes. 
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January 9, 8:57 AM
This image of the Matterhorn was the 1st place winner in the "places" category in the National Geographic's 2012 competition. The winners are just as impressive as you would expect coming from National Geographic. 
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Many teachers use Billy Joel's classic song and music video Allentown as a teaching tool to introduce the topic of deindustrialization in the Rust Belt of the United States. This alternative music video version adds some useful teaching images to help students contextualize the lyrics. Another song to consider using is Telegraph Road by Dire Straits; the song follows a town as it industrialized and as it later deindustrialized. Tags: labor, industry, economic, unit 6 industry and video. Delete the scoop?
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I love these favela images by Fernando Alan.
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December 18, 2012 7:17 AM
Tags: Brazil, urban, squatter, images, urban ecology. 
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December 18, 2012 8:01 PM
Amazing images to bring this to life for kids who have no concept what the favela looks like. Delete the scoop?
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This is a brief introduction to what geographic information systems are. This is not a tutorial on how to use it, but a conceptual overview on the potential uses and applications for GIS.
Tags: GIS, video, Unit 1 GeoPrinciples, geospatial, mapping and location. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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"The final 32 generators went into operation this week, making it the world's largest hydropower project, pictured, built on the Yangtze River in China." This photo gallery has a tremendous video at the end that displays vividly the raw power that moves the turbines. Economically, what are the benefits? Environmentally, what are the costs?
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J-Track 3D Satellite Tracking is an online educational tool that maps hundreds of satellites as they orbit Earth. One of the ironies of the space program is that it's greatest scientific advances from the space program is in observing our own planet instead of deep space. J-Track 3-D should appear in its own window and plot the satellites in an interactive panel. This is a great way to learn more about the remote sensing platforms that give us all the beautiful imagery of our planet. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Belén Menéndez Solar. Geografía. Medio Ambiente. ... Belén Menéndez Solar: Gijón, Asturias, Spain: Licenciada en Geografía Historia, especialidad en Geografía, por la Universidad de Oviedo (1983). Ver todo mi perfil ... Delete the scoop?
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Enlaces TIC 5º Primaria. Repositorio de Recursos y Enlaces TIC para Tercer Ciclo. Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger… online stats. Visitas. vuelos baratos. Contador. Free counter and web stats. Delete the scoop?
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... de Historia Geografía Arte y Sociales. Recursos de historia geografía, arte y ciudadanía para clase; apuntes, esquemas, presentaciones, vídeos, cine, cómic, flash, mp3, imágenes, mapas, actividades, metodología, pedagogía, enlaces. Delete the scoop?
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Por Ismael Tabilo. Coordinador de Investigaciones, Centro de Investigación Social TECHO-Chile Como se ha venido mostrando en la prensa hace ya varias. Delete the scoop?
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Andina Minerals inicia tramitación ambiental de proyecto por US$800 millones para extracción de oro (http://t.co/MAFxnxyT vía @latercera COPIAPO ESTÁ EN LA REGION DE ATACAMA. Delete the scoop?
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February 2, 6:26 AM
Des cartes pour comprendre le monde: comprendre la projection Mercator avec ce puzzle en ligne. 
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February 5, 12:09 AM
This is great fun! A little tricky at first though:) 
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Great site to show projection and changes in perception on maps. Delete the scoop?
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January 15, 1:17 PM
If you define a "car" as "a separate enclosed vehicle for every passenger or party", then the geometric fact about all cars, self-driving or not, miniaturized or not, is that they take vastly more space per passenger than effective public transit. This will not be a problem in low-density suburbs, but cities, by definition, are places with relatively little space per person. Self-driving cars will certainly improve the efficiency with which cars use space, so they will shift the calculus somewhat. But the bottom line will still be that if you want two crash-safe metal walls between every two strangers going down the same street, you will need a lot more space than if those two people can sit next to each other on civilized public transit. You will also need vastly more metal and equipment, which means that the self-driving-car-replaces-transit fantasy involves massive industrial production with severe consequences for energy security and greenhouse-gas emissions. As for the idea that somehow these cars will replace buses but not rail, this may be true around the margins. 
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January 17, 3:44 PM
Good picture! It defines the growth of the city that impact on urbanization rate, public health, socioeconomic environment. It also tell us that if we reduce vehicles on the road more space and clean environment may we get, that reduce motality and morbadity of several disease especially lung diseases.
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What are the benefits for each? Drawbacks? You decide! Delete the scoop?
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January 2, 4:12 PM
This set of 19 short essays (around 3-4 pages each) is a great supplemental text. I am eager to read them and other resources in the ESRI library. Tags: GIS, ESRI, mapping, cartography, geospatial, edtech, geography education, unit 1 GeoPrinciples. Delete the scoop?
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Through his Vanishing Cultures Project photographer Taylor Weidman documents threatened ways of life. About his work in Mongolia, he states: "Mongolian pastoral herders make up one of the world's largest remaining nomadic cultures. For millennia they have lived on the steppes, grazing their livestock on the lush grasslands. But today, their traditional way of life is at risk on multiple fronts. Alongside a rapidly changing economic landscape, climate change and desertification are also threatening nomadic life, killing both herds and grazing land." Via Seth Dixon
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January 2, 12:17 PM
In times of ecological hardships and global economic restructuring, many children of nomadic herders are seeking employment out of the rural areas and in the urban environment. The cultural change that this represents is for Mongolia enormous and is captured wonderfully in this photo gallery. Pictured above are the ger (yurt) camps that ring the capital city Ulaanbaatar. Ulaanbaatar houses a permanent population of displaced nomads. During the winter, Ulaanbaatar is the second most air-polluted capital in the world due largely to coal burning. Tags: Mongolia, images, indigenous, culture, globalization. 
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What factors are threatening pastoral herders way of life? Why? Delete the scoop?
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"Jane Jacobs is variously known as the guru of cities, an urban legend—“part analyst, part activist, part prophet.” In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), her influence has been extraordinary—not only on architects, community workers, and planners but also on Nobel Prize–winning economists and ecologists. As one critic recently put it, “Jacobs’s influence confirms that books matter. It isn’t easy to cite another writer who has had a comparable impact in our time.” A couple of years ago, she won the top American award for urban planning, the Vincent Scully Prize. This in itself was unusual, not only because she regularly vilifies planners, but also because with the exception of the Order of Canada and a few other prizes, she typically turns down awards—some thirty honorary degrees, including one from Harvard. Jacobs herself wasn’t interested in finishing university—she went to Columbia for just two years." Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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We've seen a world map made of each country's coins before. Here's another currency map that uses images of each country's bills...And of course I'm going to enjoy this. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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"A new report by the Pew Research Center shows that rising income inequality has led to an increasing number of Americans clustering in neighborhoods in which most residents are like them, either similarly affluent or similarly low income."
DB: Economic deprivation both within and between nations are increasing as the world becomes further globalized. American is no exception to this as the current recession continues to impact not just how people live their lives but where as well. As the middle class continues to shrink, the location of you residence is becoming a stronger indicator of your socioeconomic standing in society. The issue is not only that both opposite ends of the nation’s wealth spectrum are expanding but also that they our clustering together creating entire communities segregated by income. What role does gentrification play in this? How does income affect who is moving in and who is being displaced? What effects will this have for American society concerning which communities voice is heard? Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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educ.ar es el portal educativo de la Nación, destinado a ejecutar las políticas definidas por el Ministerio de Educación en materia de integración de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en el sistema educativo. Delete the scoop?
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Luego de haber pasado la instancia colegial con excelentes calificaciones, ya fueronseleccionados los 4 alumnos que representarán al INSTITUTO en la siguiente instancia de las Olimpíadas de Geografía. Delete the scoop?
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La aplanadora que se veía venir se atoró en algún paraje de la campaña. El trabuco priista se "desinfló" —todo es relativo— y el resultado en las urnas dista mucho del escenario que imaginaban los interesados (priistas, ... Delete the scoop?
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AmbientumNuevo índice de calidad de aire para arsénico y metales pesadosAmbientumEl control de la contaminación atmosférica es uno de los objetivos más importantes en la evaluación de riesgos de contaminación en la actualidad. Delete the scoop?
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Tomada por Inés.(Vegetación, ciudad y geografía desde Las Águilas, por Inés.)... Delete the scoop?
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This image of the Matterhorn was the 1st place winner in the "places" category in the National Geographic's 2012 competition. The winners are just as impressive as you would expect coming from National Geographic.
Wow....these should prove very useful for K, T and A classes.
This image of the Matterhorn was the 1st place winner in the "places" category in the National Geographic's 2012 competition. The winners are just as impressive as you would expect coming from National Geographic.
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