Uganda: the human story behind gorilla tourism
Concepts of thinking: Geographic perspective, interrelationships, spatial significance, patterns and trends
Why might this situation have been allowed to happen to the Batwa?
Ageing UK population will increase strain on public spending, OBR warns
Office for Budget Responsibility says that national debt would come down from its current 80% of GDP to 54% by the early 2030s and then start rising again
Concepts of thinking: Patterns and trends, geographic perspective
How might this compare to Canada's population patterns?
Ageing population is going to push up public spending, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. Photograph: F1 Online / Rex Features/F1 Online / Rex Features
Nepal earthquake: Devastation in maps and images 28 April 2015 BBC
Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance (why is the earthquake location so important?) Interrelationships (why was it that so many buildings were not livable after the quake?),
Geographic Perspective (how might people be able to best help the situation in Nepal?),
Patterns and Trends (Why would so many people live in an area that has the potential or such damage? What, if any, evidence is there that this may happen again?)
What could be done to ensure that this type of destruction could be reduced in the future?
Office for Budget Responsibility says that national debt would come down from its current 80% of GDP to 54% by the early 2030s and then start rising again
Concepts of thinking: Patterns and trends, geographic perspective
How might this compare to Canada's population patterns?
Ageing population is going to push up public spending, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. Photograph: F1 Online / Rex Features/F1 Online / Rex Features
Nepal earthquake: Devastation in maps and images 28 April 2015 BBC
Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
The pendulum clock of Longitude hero John Harrison is tested and declared a masterpiece
Concept of Thinking: Spatial Significance
A series of pictures
showing some effects of population increase and the stress on the environment
that comes with it.
http://tinyurl.com/effects-of-population-increase
This two web page were posted earlier but I thought it would be worth posting again.
Gapminder and Worldmapper are websites that are inter active graphs, maps, and charts. Supporting lessons for Gapminder are also available.
Concepts of Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective
http://www.worldmapper.org
A fun video that gets across the mapping essentials.
Suggested use as a minds on.
Geographic Perspective: Spatial Significance
They Flew a Drone Over a Pig Farm to Discover It’s Not Really a Farm. It’s Much More Disturbing.
http://tinyurl.com/pig-farm-from-the-air
Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance, Geographic Perspective
NASA: Global Climate Change, Vital Signs of a Plant
Great slides of Then and Now dealing with Climate Change.
Concepts of Geographic Perspective: Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships
The pendulum clock of Longitude hero John Harrison is tested and declared a masterpiece
Concept of Thinking: Spatial Significance
A series of pictures showing some effects of population increase and the stress on the environment that comes with it.
Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance,
Interrelationships, Geographic Perspective
This two web page were posted earlier but I thought it would be worth posting again.
Gapminder and Worldmapper are websites that are inter active graphs, maps, and charts. Supporting lessons for Gapminder are also available.
Concepts of Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective
http://www.worldmapper.org
A fun video that gets across the mapping essentials.
Suggested use as a minds on.
Geographic Perspective: Spatial Significance
They Flew a Drone Over a Pig Farm to Discover It’s Not Really a Farm. It’s Much More Disturbing.
A drone visits some pig “farms” run by the world’s biggest pork producer…
http://tinyurl.com/pig-farm-from-the-air
http://tinyurl.com/pig-farm-from-the-air
Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance, Geographic Perspective
NASA: Global Climate Change, Vital Signs of a Plant
Wind Power Around the World
Here is a great graphic showing the amount of energy generated from wind around the world.
Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends
Suggested use: Have students create a spatial journal using ArcGIS on line.
Below are two websites dealing with climate and climate change. There are several interesting links associated with these sites.
This website has a variety of resources relating to different aspects of the water cycle. 
This website has a variety of resources relating to different aspects of the water cycle.
Global is the new local: Pollution changes clouds, climate downstream
Roam the World in (Almost) Real Time
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance
Florida banned state workers from using term 'climate change' – report
Florida is threatened by climate change, according to the 2014 US national climate assessment. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Sipa Press/Rex
Geographic Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance
AQUEDUCT World Resource Institute
A great resource for World Issues
Roam the World in (Almost) Real Time
It's always summer on Google Earth. But a landmark Mapbox project uses satellite imagery to show the planet as it is now.
Launched Thursday, a landmark project from Mapbox has changed the summertime paradigm for online cartography. Landsat-live reveals the planet's surface in real time and in stunning resolution, fed by a constant stream of public-domain imagery from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Above is an embedded version you can explore.
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance
Florida banned state workers from using term 'climate change' – report
Global warming’ and ‘sustainability’ among phrases allegedly barred at state’s Department of Environmental Protection, investigative report finds
Florida is threatened by climate change, according to the 2014 US national climate assessment. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Sipa Press/Rex
Geographic Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance
AQUEDUCT World Resource Institute
The Shocking Truth About What It Would Cost Walmart If It Paid a Living Wage.
In two minutes, economist Robert Reich completely destroys every possible excuse for Walmart’s low wages…
Click on the link: http://tinyurl.com/qaksn92
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships, Patterns and Trends,
The Haiti earthquake five years on - then and now
On 12 January 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti with more than 50 aftershocks following over the next 12 days. The disaster left more than 220,000 people dead and over 300,000 injured and resulted in a humanitarian crisis
- Click each image to show the same location, five years on
Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Patterns and Trends
This Is What A World Map Looks Like When Scaled According To Population Size
February
1, 2015 | by Kristy Hamilton
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial
Significance,
Where in the world did
Australia go?! A new cartogram by Redditer TeaDranks rescales
the world’s countries according to population size instead of geographic
area.
Beijing smog makes city unliveable, says mayor
Polluting factories and skyrocketing vehicle ownership blamed as report finds tourism to Chinese city falls 10% on year before
http://tinyurl.com/smog-in-the-city
The link below has several articles relating to Oil and the Environment from around the world. The Concepts of Thinking addressed through the link are: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Interrelationships.
Julia Roberts Tells Everyone In the World to Stop Pretending Like Facts Don’t Exist.
This is a good clip to show the Gaia Hypothesis.
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships
This is a nice video as a minds on activity.
Some Strange Things Are Happening to Astronauts Returning to Earth.
The video deals with Geographic Perspective
Malawi floods leave grim legacy of death, destruction and devastation
Julia Roberts Tells Everyone In the World to Stop Pretending Like Facts Don’t Exist.
Julia is speaking, as nature. “I have fed species greater than you. I have starved species greater than you…”
This is a good clip to show the Gaia Hypothesis.
A nice Minds On Activity.
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships
This is a nice video as a minds on activity.
Some Strange Things Are Happening to Astronauts Returning to Earth.
They’re seeing our world as it really is…
The video deals with Geographic Perspective
Malawi floods leave grim legacy of death, destruction and devastationWorld's cities experiencing more heatwaves, study shows
Number of extremely hot days a year has increased in hundreds of cities since the 1970s years, with frequencies peaking in the last five years
More extreme heat, less cold spells and less high winds is the weather trend for many of the world’s cities, a new study shows. Photograph: Richard Baker/Corbis
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships
The aerial delivery of relief supplies has revealed the tragic human and environmental cost of the floods that hit Malawi following torrential rains
The floods in Malawi have displaced at least 174,000 people, sweeping away homes and claiming untold lives. Photograph: Shiraaz Mohamed/AP
Number of extremely hot days a year has increased in hundreds of cities since the 1970s years, with frequencies peaking in the last five years
More extreme heat, less cold spells and less high winds is the weather trend for many of the world’s cities, a new study shows. Photograph: Richard Baker/Corbis
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships
The aerial delivery of relief supplies has revealed the tragic human and environmental cost of the floods that hit Malawi following torrential rains
22 Maps of Caanada as you’ve never seen it before
22 Maps of Caanada as you’ve never seen it before
Presenting a whole new way of looking at Canada and its people
Beijing smog makes city unliveable, says mayor
Polluting factories and skyrocketing vehicle ownership blamed as report finds tourism to Chinese city falls 10% on year before
http://tinyurl.com/smog-in-the-city
A child wears a face mask while walking along a street in Beijing. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
Climate change responsible for super-charging winter storms, scientists say
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspectives, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends
Climate change responsible for super-charging winter storms, scientists say
The link below has several articles relating to Oil and the Environment from around the world. The Concepts of Thinking addressed through the link are: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Interrelationships.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/oil
White House unveils plan to open Atlantic waters to offshore oil drilling
Move to lease large swaths of ocean along east coast and double down in Gulf of Mexico oddly comes in wake of attacks against right for climate change denial
This could be a common sight along the Atlantic coast horizon after the Obama administration moved to open a large swath of the Atlantic seaboard to oil drilling. Photograph: Cristobal Garcia/EPA
Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance, Geographic Prespective
US Senate refuses to accept humanity's role in global climate change, again
Senators accept global warming is not a hoax but fail to recognise human activity is to blame, nearly 27 years after scientists laid out man’s role.
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships
An Esri activity that deals with the effects of Climate Change can be found by clicking on the link below:
Running hot and cold
The link below that ranks countries on different characteristics. Spatial Journals could be created using ArcGIS On Line or My Maps (Google).
Senators accept global warming is not a hoax but fail to recognise human activity is to blame, nearly 27 years after scientists laid out man’s role.
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships
The link below that ranks countries on different characteristics. Spatial Journals could be created using ArcGIS On Line or My Maps (Google).
An Esri activity that deals with the effects of Climate Change can be found by clicking on the link below:
(this site has several good activities for ArcGIS On Line)
Mapping Our World for ArcGIS Online
Module 3, Lesson 1
Running hot and cold
Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships.
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