The Pew Forum has put out an interesting article on the Global Religious landscape which, as a Geography teacher at a Catholic school, I find extremely useful. There are some useful visuals in the form of maps and graphs and, on the whole, it’s interesting reading.
Last year the BBC published an article of 5 of History’s most important places as chosen by History of the World presenter Andrew Marr.
These places fall into three categories: origins of civilization, an important battle site, the location of scientific breakthrough.
I think this is a fantastic Social Studies lesson starter as it will highlight the different values and perspectives around the classroom as well as requiring students to delve into their Geographical and Historical knowledge.
Scribble Maps has a lot of potential. As the description says, it lets you easily draw on maps (google maps) and share them for free. Personally, I find the tools to draw on Google Maps clumsy and frustrating so hopefully this is going to be a good fix.
The world in 360. It’s awesome, a fantastic teaching tool or just inspiring for travel. 360cities is a website where people have taken and uploaded 360 degree panoramic photos. Some are of city streets, some are of landscapes, some are of places for example, the Sistine chapel, the Colosseum and parts of the great wall of China.
Quiet at the back: classrooms around the world – in pictures
The Guardian website has published this interesting photoset: “from the Russian pupils in Prada to the Nigerian children who sit four to a desk, photographer Julian Germain takes us on a journey around the world’s classrooms”. I want to use it either to discuss culture in Social Studies, demographics in Geography or institutions in Sociology. It is just really cool! It also reminds me of this photoset published a while back by The Telegraph.
Talking about our ecological footprint as humans just makes me sad.
(Source: whatifyoufuckedyourselfinstead)
From the US Geological Survey
This drawing shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
Here’s a really interesting photo, an intern from Facebook wanted to examine the locality of friendships, pulling some data from Facebook he created this image. What’s incredible is that lines don’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line is a friendship between two people, and with enough information these friendships give us a surprisingly accurate map of the world, minus Russia, apparently Facebook isn’t too big over there.
You can read more about how it was made here. Also here is the High Res Version.
The second longest river in New Zealand.
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Made this a bit under a year ago. The results are less hardcore at the moment, but it’s still pretty flesh coloured.
All results from the first page or results.
-jethroq
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