Check out the Atlas of Urban Expansion for a quick interactive website concerning urban sprawl. Assign one city per student and have them compare. From the website: The NYU Urban […]
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VIDEO 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,
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VIDEO 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 […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Supranational Organizations
If you are teaching students about supranational organizations, intergovernmental work, geopolitics, alliances, and the role of sanctions, this is a great place to start. Students will first read about the […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Eight Pages of Geopolitical Goodness
If you’ve ever wanted to see Mackinder and Spykman dual, the U.S. with pectoral muscles, or Nazi Germany as an embryonic state, you’re in for a real treat. Check out […]
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LESSONS & 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 […]
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Smithsonian Folkways Holiday Music via ESRI
If you’re looking for some holiday music (school permitting) to get you through the week, enjoy an ESRI Storymap with 56 samples. They are around 40 seconds a piece. The […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Enclaves & Exclaves via ESRI Storymaps
ESRI Storymaps are a great way to grab students’ attention by visually explaining key concepts from class. ESRI takes students on a tour of the World’s Geographically Engulfed and Orphaned […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Consequent or Subsequent?
Update: My favorite online geography teacher, the GeoEcologist just dropped a video that hopefully helps some of us. When I first started teaching human geography, I quickly realized that there […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Expansion Diffusion with McDonald’s
If you are teaching students about cultural diffusion within the Cultural Patterns & Processes unit, your students will enjoy this! Students will read about the three different types of expansion […]
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FRQ: Race and Ethnicity w/ Stimulus ~Rubric Included~
Need an FRQ with stimulus? This is an original focusing on race and ethnicity. There is one map stimulus included. If you don’t have access to a color printer, project […]
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LESSON PLAN: Recognizing Language Patterns: An Etymology Word Exploration
Where do our Words Come From?!?! Europe provides students with a wonderful opportunity to recognize the various patterns and groupings of its major language branches and families. In this activity, […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: Universalizing vs. Ethnic & Religious Hearths and Diffusion
With everyone talking about the new CED’s emphasis on teaching religion and language through the lens of diffusion, I’m revamping my lessons on the world’s main religions. Hearth -> Diffusion […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: *Free* Ethnicities & Building Blocks of Culture
If you’re jumping into Culture, why not have your students start with its building blocks. With this worksheet, have students read about what makes a culture, including artifacts, mentifacts, values, […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: Seeds of Suicide & The Failures of the Green Revolution
If you’re looking for a good activity that discusses the drawbacks of the Green Revolution, there is a documentary that I’ve used since 2009, though the story is still the same. […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Rural Settlements & Dwellings-Illustrated Text and Wksts
If you’re looking for a fun way for students to explore rural land patterns and traditional housing styles, here is a set of 5 Illustrated Textbook pages on the topic, […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Population Pyramids Across Time and Space
If you’re looking for opportunities for your students to work with population pyramids across the world, I created two clean worksheets. Students can either study population pyramids at the regional scale or […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Demographic Transition Model Printable
If you’re keen to have your students practice the Demographic Transition Model with guided lecture notes, feel free to download this blank worksheet for your students’ notebooks. I created a […]
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INTERACTIVE via Luminocity3d: World Population Density Interactive Map
Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. This is the closest thing that […]
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LESSON PLAN: Refugee Case Studies of Syria & the Rohingya: A Gallery Walk
If you are looking for something for you walls during when discussing migration, you can use these Instagram-themed, Rohingya and Syrian crisis timelines I made using Adobe Illustrator. Some of […]
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LESSON PLAN via TpT: Historical U.S. Immigration Maps & Charts for Coloring *6-Way Lesson Plan*
**Geography Coloring Book Series** **History Coloring Book Series** U.S. Historical Migration Patterns & Processes: Explore the historical immigration patterns of the United States through a series of charts and maps […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVE via Metrocosm: Two Centuries of U.S. Migration
If you’re looking for an eye-catching, attention-grabber, this data visualization of two centuries of U.S. immigration is a fun one. You can toggle the date and pause the animation. It […]
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LESSON & WORKSHEET: Arithmetic, Physiological, Agricultural Densities: Crunching the #’s & Mapping them
Ability to download PDF of this full post is above. (sans worksheets) UPDATED 9/19/19: I deleted the countries of Egypt, South Korea, and Russia and left the United States so […]
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RESOURCE: 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 […]
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