Update: Fixed broken QR Code. 9/15/18 6:02am If you’re eager to show your students how GIS is applied to real jobs and the real world, this is a great story […]
Read MoreResources: Economic Development
VIDEOS & LESSONS: C-Span Classroom by APHG Unit
Monday morning? No lesson plan? Try C-Span Classroom . What a mini gold mine this resource is! I had no idea C-Span Classroom existed until Julie W. posted it onto […]
Read MoreVIDEO via WSJ: How a Steel Box Changed the World: A Brief History of Shipping
As the container shipping industry continues to boom, companies are adopting new technologies to move cargo faster and shifting to crewless ships. But it’s not all been smooth sailing and […]
Read MoreVIDEO via Quartz: NAFTA explained by avocados. And shoes.
Everyone hates NAFTA. But what was NAFTA actually supposed to do? Did it deliver on its promise? To understand that, you have to look at America’s relationships with two goods: […]
Read MoreVIDEO via VOX: Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins
Topics: GDP, Containerization, Shenzhen, Foreign Investment, Special Economic Zones, Tax Incentives, Free Market, Cheap Labor, Currency Manipulation, Supply Chain, Cultural Difference, Geographic distance, Manufacturing, Middle-Class, Secondary Sector, Automation, Outsourcing, neocolonialism,
Read MoreVIDEO via VOX: China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious infrastructure project in modern history. It spans over 60 countries and will cost over a trillion dollars. The plan is to […]
Read MoreLESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Human Development Index: Map Coloring Book Pages
If you’ve never checked out the annual United Nation’s Human Development Index Report, it is a rather fun report to skim through. Check out the 2019 report here. I finally […]
Read MoreLESSONS & WORKSHEETS: 198 Country Digital One-Pager Templates
Expose your students to 198 countries through independent research using digital case studies. Each digital one-pager is itching for your students to complete. Included on each page are the seven […]
Read MoreRESOURCE: John Snow ArcGIS Map
This John Snow Cholera map is an ArcGIS version that lets you toggle layers on and off. It also gives a nice description of his process on the left. Snow’s […]
Read MoreVideo: Epidemiological Transition Lecture
Epidemiological transition Epidemiological transition is the changing patterns of disease (and causes of death) seen in human history. Those of us interested in public health and global health need to […]
Read MoreArticle & Interactive via NYT: How Does Your State Make Electricity?
How Does Your State Make Electricity? Excerpt: America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago: Natural gas has edged out coal as the country’s leading generation source … […]
Read MoreVideo via UN: What is Sustainable Development?
United Nations – This September, countries will gather at the UN to adopt 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. So what exactly is sustainable development? How can we achieve that? […]
Read MoreVideo: The Simpsons-India Outsourcing
A breif look at the episode called Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore. Click to view.
Read MoreArticle via UNNews: ‘Shadow’ of persistent inequality is growing, key UN human development report reveals
‘Shadow’ of persistent inequality is growing, key UN human development report reveals Excerpt: While health, education, and income levels have improved overall across the globe, “wide inequalities” both among and […]
Read MoreVideo via Wendover Productions: Big Max Economies
Big Macs: delicious (kinda), cheap (kinda), and educational (absolutely). In this episode, we look at how the economist magazine used burger prices to teach about purchasing power parity.
Read MoreLESSON PLAN: Mapping Hoteling and Lösch – A Competition
OBJECTIVE: Students will show competency of Losch and Hoteling’s agglomeration models using their respective local geographies. MATERIALS: Tablets or computers to access Google My Maps; or two paper maps of […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVE via Social Progress Imperative: Social Progress Index
From the Social Progress Imperative, a global not-for-profit out of Washington D.C., comes a nice interactive that allows users to see their social progress index visually presented. The social progress […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVES: Esri Geoinquiries
As you get more comfortable and efficient with teaching content, you might find more time for enrichment activities. As the company Esri puts it, “Esri’s GIS mapping software is the […]
Read MoreLESSON PLAN: Elements of a Good One-Pager Activity
I had the good fortune of someone being kind enough to haul my monstrous poster presentation of student work over to the Duke Convention center for the AP Human Geography […]
Read MoreARTICLE via Newsweek: Alabama has the Worst Poverty in the Developed World, U.N. Official Says
Human Imprint: This short article could be presented at the beginning of the year to have kids conduct a Why of Where investigation into the reason for Alabama’s poverty, and it’s […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVE: The Carbon Map
This fun site is easy to use and visually appealing for users. A quick video gives a tutorial about CARTOGRAM MAPS and how to read it’s information. There are eleven […]
Read MoreNEWS via Marketplace: Small-scale manufacturing is on the rise in American cities
Time: 3 min. 36 sec. Have students listen to a contemporary example of how one Rust-Belt city is making it’s comeback (Duluth, Minn.) This would be a great story to […]
Read MoreLESSON PLAN: Diverted to Delhi Documentary & Video Guide
The synopsis provided by ABC TV Documentary: Diverted to Delhi looks at the Indian call centre phenomenon. It looks at how India, with no tradition of customer service, trains call centre workers to provide quality service to overseas customers. It follows university graduates attending two training courses. The graduates employed by Delhi’s cal centres have to put aside their cultural identity, modify their accent and change their name so they can converse with international customers. Most of the call centre business comes from USA and Britain but Australian interest in India is growing and an Australian training course is up and running, where Indians are introduced to the Australian vernacular courtesy of The Castle on video, It’s only a matter of time before tens of thousands of Indians will be saying “g’day mate” when they answer the phone.
Read MoreNEWS & RESOURCE via Washington Post: Germany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strong
This 2016 article highlights how effects of border changes are still evident today. The article uses choropleth maps to highlight some of the biggest difference between East and West Berliners. […]
Read MoreRESOURCE: Almaz’s Story-Human Trafficking, Slave Labor
Human Imprint: This is a short, illustrated story based upon real events. Topics: Modern slave labor, human trafficking, migrant workers Source: BBC News
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