Inspiration for this week’s MC questions include the 12th Congressional District, gender-equity legislation (or should we say, lack there of), Amazon’s dominance at vertical integration, and nationalist movements. As always, constructive criticism […]
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MC questions this week are inspired by topics including the Chinese airpocalypse, Slovakian bathtub fish, chaupadi, the city of Orania, the winner of the Google Science Fair, and shadows cast by […]
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Multiple choice questions for the news week of December 5th-11th, 2016. human-questions-edition-2 As always, if you have constructive criticism or would like to discuss the questions, comment or post via […]
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I recently revisited the Geospatial Revolution episodes created by Penn State Public Broadcasting and created a new worksheet for the series. I was reminded how good they are. If you […]
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This video clip provided by Population Education shows the geography distribution of the global population with a growing dot-density map. As the timeline progresses, the exponential growth makes the population […]
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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. […]
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This photo article created by the New York Times is great for the Political unit when talking about barriers, walls, and superimposed boundaries.
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Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities […]
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This sure beats sitting in rush hour traffic. In La Paz, the sky rail take commuters where they need to go. This is the ultimate example of humans changing their […]
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This short 2:46 second vide clip presented by TestTube News describes how the United Nations categorizes an urban slum and also where are the most populated urban slums in the […]
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Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago’s Public Housing Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago’s Public Housing, follows families and a small business owner as they are moved out of Chicago’s most “notorious” […]
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The following list is taken from the AP Human Geography Teacher’s Guide. The list looks a little dated, nevertheless, the authors have updated versions of their texts. ———————– Textbooks de […]
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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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A good article and video clip that deals with forward capitals.
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Ted Talk: How Containerization Shaped the Modern World
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By 2050, the world’s population will likely increase 35 percent. But is growing more food the only option—or even the best? National Geographic investigates the challenges and solutions to feeding everyone […]
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This 37 minute story is great for kids in a 1:1 environment, or for a different homework assignment. The author Charles C. Mann discusses Christopher Columbus docking in the ‘New World’ […]
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This is a fun introduction for your students when discussing accents. This is iPad friendly. If they have headphones, they can work at their own pace. Can you guess where […]
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This video clip is useful for the political unit and the discussion of boundary disputes and UNCLOS.
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Thanks to the Vsauce video, What Does the Earth Look Like, we can use a few other helpful sites to interact with map projection. The first one is Google’s Mercator Map Puzzle […]
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‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New by BRENDA SALINAS July 06, 201412:39 PM ET In this promotional photo shot for SC Johnson, TV star Jennie Garth sprays […]
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The Pyres of Varanasi: Breaking the Cycle of Death and Rebirth One river, 18,000 feet, 1,500 miles. In the fall of 2013, photographer and videographer Pete McBride, along with professional […]
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