7 Digital Mapping Projects for Almost All Subjects

 

Last week was Geography awareness week but  I forgot to post something.  Better late than never.  Click here to see Richard Byrne's article.

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WhatWasThere

 

Wouldn't it be nice to go back and spend a day in a city like New York or Chicago or even your own town back in the day.  Say like during prohibition  and visit a speakeasy.  You can do it now, well kind of.  Though historical pictures superimposed on current google streetview WhatWasThere allows you to type in an address and see what was there.  To see the website click here. 

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Can You Guess the Country? A New Geography Photo Quiz for Students

It is Friday and if you teach World Geography or History you might use this at the beginning of class.  Ten great pictures from The NYT's and you need to guess what country they were taken in.  To see the visual quiz click here.

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Country of the Week

 

If you are teaching Geography, World Issues  or other Social Science courses this weekly interactive quiz introduces students to a country via Times maps, video, photography and journalism.  To see the website click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Preparing to Welcome Ukrainian Students

 

Sorry but if you don't support Ukraine then go to H#ll. Please read an article as educators how to help.  Click here to read the article hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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NYT - What’s Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 28, 2022

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.

1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)

3. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.

Each Monday, our collaborator, Visual Thinking Strategies, will facilitate a discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time by paraphrasing comments and linking to responses to help students’ understanding go deeper. You might use their responses as models for your own.

4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently?

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City Guesser

 

This is Geography game where  you try and guess what city you are in.  They now have video so you can look around at signs, stores, license plates etc to get clues.  You can even pick which country you want to work with, even Canada eh.  To see the game click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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What Does It Mean to Ask ‘How Does Ukrainian Compare with Russian?’

Happy Valentines Day but there are more important things to discus.  Do you want WWIII?  Then you better pay attention to the BS that is happening on Ukraine's border.  Putin is just a KGB strongman that knows only how to bully.  What he does not realize is that Ukraine's will have the last laugh.  Maybe not today or tomorrow but we will.  We are not Rusky and we speak Ukrainian.  When we lost Crimea to the Russians the world sat by twiddling their fingers saying lots of things but doing nothing.  Sounds like the same thing is happening again.  Getting to the education aspect of my rant is to know something about the Slavik languages.  If you teach a World Issues or Current Events class please read  about this  by clicking  here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Revolt in Kazakhstan: What’s Happening, and Why It Matters’

If you are teaching a current events or world issues course this article on Kazakhstan might just fit the bill.  To see the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Making an Animated Map

 

From maps mania, "mult.dev is an incredibly easy to use tool for making animated journey maps. Using the tool you can create animated maps of a journey you have made (or plan to make) and then share the created map with your friends and family.  

You can create an animated journey map with mult.dev in a matter of seconds. It is that easy to do. All you need to do is add a list of locations (in the order of your journey) and mult-dev will automatically create your animated journey map visiting each of your chosen locations in turn. If you want you can also share your mode of transport between locations and mult-dev will add an icon to each stage of your journey showing how you traveled (or plan to travel). 

When you have finished adding destinations to your map you can either download your journey as a video or share a link to your created map (although when I tried saving an animated journey map in FireFox I kept getting a video corrupted link).

mult-dev journey maps are displayed using a 3D globe. One consequence of this is that mult-dev is really only useful for animating long journeys between countries. Because of the maps' global scale it really isn't very effective in mapping short journeys. Therefore you would probably only use multi-dev to visualize and share a long journey, which encompasses trips to a number of different countries. For example a multi-dev map would be perfect for sharing the itinerary of a planned round-the-world trip."  To read the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.  

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Radiooooo

 

If you are looking for a musical time machine to take your students on then Radiooooo is for you.  Just pick your country off the map.  Pick the decade and presto you have music.  If you click in the bottom left corner you will get information about the artist and the song.  To see the website click here.

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Mapquiz

 

This is a neat geography guessing game.  You are presented with a map location and you have to guess the country out of four picks.  After you guess it will show you the correct answer and some information about the country.  Note in the top right hand corner you can point the map so north is at the top of the page.  You can also zoom in or out.  It was 8 for 8 until I got nailed on Tajikistan.  I guessed Kazakhstan.  Sorry Borat.  To play the game click here.  Tomorrow is a PD day so have a great long weekend KCI students.

City Guesser - Geography Game

 

This Geography game has been updated from street view pictures to videos.  They even have a category of Canada.  To see the updated site click here.

40 Maps that Explain the World

If you teach Geography then mapping activities are probably pretty important.  Even though these links are a bit dated, the ideas they represent could be valuable to your teaching and your students.  Check them out by clicking here and here.

 

Crash Course in Geography

 

Our friends at Crash Course now have a channel for Geography.  The videos are all 10-11 minutes long.  Below is a short preview to their channel.  Presently their are 4 lessons. To see them click here.

Bouncy Maps

 

Maps of the world showing energy, minerals, agriculture, livestock, economy, population, religion, conflict and health.  When you select a category such as livestock and then subcategory like pigs and then select bouncymaps it will show you a map of the world scaled to by country that has the most pigs.  See the image below.  Also all data for each country is listed in descending order. See the example embedded below.  Move the toogle from regular map to bouncy map.   To see the website click here.

Seterra - Online Geography and Anatomy Self Quiz

 

This is from October 2018 but the site is still going strong.

Seterra offers Geography games but I am going to point out that they have Anatomy quizzes too.You can have your students point and click at the parts of the human anatomy or parts of the cell etc.To see the site click here.  I just did the bones quiz and mixed up tibia and fibula.  Oh well more practice needed.

Google Public Data Explorer

 

Google Public Data Explorer is a free way to analyze public data.  I first posted about this in 2015.  It is worth taking a look at it again. You can look at fertility rate, life expectancy, HIV prevalence,  education, etc for many countries all at once.  You pick what you want to plot on what axis.  You can animate the graph through the century by moving a slider to see how things change over time.  To see this website click here.   This might work well in your Data Analysis class or Statistics unit.  This might work in your Geography class if you want to look at GDP versus Population Density, etc.  Play around with it to see what you can find out.

Chart It

 

Do you need to make a chart or graph?  You might want to consider Chart It.  It is free and offers Geo-Charts too.  Simply paste data directly from Excel, csv or text.  To see their website click here.

Scribble Maps

 

I posted about Scribble Maps a couple of times in the past.  Click here to see.  Karrar Haider says "Scribble Maps is a very attractive custom map making service that offers most of its features for free. You can do all the common map editing like calculate distance, add lines, edit overlays, draw, add polygons, add marks and text and easily change the color of  all the edits.  You can create a map and save/share it without any registration, but registration will let you share maps under your name. The paid version will let you remove the Scribble Maps watermark.  To see the website click here.