Unit 1: Thinking Geographically 1.6: Scales of Analysis: Geographers analyze relationships among and between places to reveal important spatial patterns. If you’re looking for a lesson plan or activity to […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: Best Locations for a Proposed Golf Resort
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 […]
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INTERACTIVE: Boomtown Flood Town
If you want an opportunity to show how GIS can help solve real world problems and discover correlation, look no further! Boomtown, Flood Town is an interactive article with map […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Location-Contemporary Cartography
Find out why early maps looked so funky, about the art of CARTOGRAPHY (or is it a science?), and how thousands of Google cars, with the help of GPS, are […]
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Illustrated Textbook: GIS, GPS, and the Clumping of “Things”
Greetings! In this installation GIS and GPS make an appearance, we find out about about the AGGREGATE of “things”, and find out how geography can help us solve the cause […]
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Professional Development Night at the 2017 AP Human Reading
If you haven’t had the chance to grade hundreds (for some of you thousands) of AP exams, I highly suggest that you do it at least once. While the reading […]
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MC Questions: Volume 1 Edition 5
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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LESSON & VIDEO: The Geospatial Revolution Video and Worksheet
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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RESOURCE: AP HuGe Recommended Texts
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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NEWS via FCW.com: EPA: Using maps to make sense of water pollution data
EPA: Using maps to make sense of water pollution data By Frank Konkel Mar 17, 2014 West Virginians did not need an app to know that the Elk River had […]
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NEWS via FCW.com: Why Maps Matter
Why maps matter By Frank Konkel Mar 17, 2014 People used to use maps so they wouldn’t get lost. But in recent years, access to the Global Positioning System and the […]
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NEWS via NOLA: Putting hip on the map: Real estate markets heat up when a neighborhood turns cool
Putting hip on the map: Real estate markets heat up when a neighborhood turns cool By Richard Campanella on March 12, 2014 at 9:00 AM, updated March 12, 2014 at […]
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NEWS via Guardian Liberty Voice: China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform
China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform Added by Tina Zhang on March 15, 2014. On March 13, China’s annual parliament meeting closed. Reforms in financialsector, economic structure, environmental protection, and many other […]
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INTERACTIVE: Racial Dot Maps via: University of Va.
The Racial Dot Map One Dot Per Person for the Entire United States Created by Dustin Cable, July 2013 Access and Use Policy Link to Full Screen Map The Map | The […]
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LESSON PLAN: Geomedicine
Topics: Geomedicine, Health, Activity Space, Environmental Geography, GIS, Pattern Source: AP Reading Technology Integration Night; Presenter Materials: iPad, iTouch, or iPhone Apps Required: TED, Place History Procedure: 1) Have students […]
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