Video: Mapping

The Art of Making Globes

What I really like about this collection of short video clips is seeing how much art is incorporated in the creation of something that requires such precision. Art and science […]

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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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VIDEO: Historical World Population (5:46)

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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VIDEO: How the “ghost map” helped end a killer disease

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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INTERACTIVE: Map Projection- Google and Jason Davies

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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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration

Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm   It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]

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RESOURCE: Adventures in mapping | TED Playlist

See on Scoop.it – Advanced Human Geography Maps don’t just tell you which street to turn left on. Maps convey information that shapes our lives, deepen our understanding of problems […]

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