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 […]
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Video via PBSNewsHour: The surprising thing about the declining U.S. birth rate
The surprising thing about the declining U.S. birth rate Excerpt: More than 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, but the birth rate drop was the largest […]
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Video: Crisis in Levittown
The Black upper middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. […]
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Article & Inforgraphic via VisualCapittalist: Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent
Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent Excerpt: Earlier this week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation published their annual letter that highlights the surprises they saw […]
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Article & 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 … […]
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Video 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? […]
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Video: The Simpsons-India Outsourcing
A breif look at the episode called Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore. Click to view.
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Article 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 […]
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Video 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.
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Video via It’s a Southern Thing: Which States are Southern? – Back Porch Bickerin’
On this week’s episode, Matt and Calli bicker about which states are considered to be “southern” states.
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Infographic via BrilliantMaps: Land Reclamation in the Netherlands 1300 Vs 2000
Land Reclamation in the Netherlands 1300 Vs 2000 The map comparison above shows what the land area of what makes up the Netherlands today, looked like in 1300 compared to […]
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LESSON 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 […]
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VIDEO via BBC: The blueprint for world domination that spooked America
The following video clips below discuss the COLD WAR, the role of GEOPOLITICS, MACKINDER’s HEARTLAND THEORY, and SPYKMAN’s RIMLAND THEORY. The Heartland Theory, Part 2
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI Geoinquiry: What is a Gerrymander?
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI Geoinquiry: Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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VR/360 LESSON PLAN: Refugee Case Studies of Syria & the Rohingya; Graffiti Wall
AP HG Course Descriptors: Causes and consequences of migration are influenced by cultural, demographic, economic, environmental, and political factors. Apply the concepts of forced and voluntary migration to historical and […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI: Migration, On the Move
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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INTERACTIVE 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 […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI: Language & Religion Geoinquiry
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Language Tree Kahoot
Here is a language Kahoot for the major families and branches. USE OR REFUSE! 21 questions, 20 seconds, all maps.
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Agricultural Land Use & Köppen using Quizlet Live
I first played Quizlet Live in a Spanish 4 class, last year. It takes your traditional Quizlet cards and creates a team-oriented, racing game. Depending on the amount of flashcards […]
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LESSONS and WORKSHEETS: Rural Landscape Patterns & Traditional Folk Housing
Last night students read about rural landscape patterns and traditional housing types. Today in class after reviewing the four types of traditional housing, we viewed Google Earth’s, “This is Home,” […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI: Farming, Vegetation, & the Rural Landscape
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Circle Seminars
I couldn’t wait to try this seminar approach after seeing people talk about it on our Facebook group. So thank you for whoever posted it! In my brief research on […]
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INTERACTIVE: Make a Digital Choropleth Map
If you are looking for a few ways to have students make a quick digital choropleth map, you might consider the following options: Piktochart (A favorite of mine) Log in […]
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