Unit+1_Thinking+Geographically

=Overview = toc Human geographers ask where people and activities are found on Earth and why they are found there. This first chapter introduces the basic concepts that geographers use to answer these questions. These include mapping, place, region, scale, space, and connections.

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Great interactive to help students understand what human geography is about. media type="custom" key="26417608"    //West Wing: Why are we changing maps?// Can maps lie? media type="custom" key="23416210"  25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See the World media type="custom" key="27782013" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">TED Talks ... Adventures in mapping (10 videos) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> http://www.ted.com/playlists/138/adventures_in_mapping.html <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> //Spatial Thinking While Hiking// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Questions to Ponder: What geographic considerations come to mind and should come to mind during a hike across the landscape? How do geographers think about and frame questions and discussions in human and physical geography, including historical settlement, resources, human-environment interaction, spatial thinking, and other considerations? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">media type="youtube" key="_FdhEKADqH8?rel=0" width="392" height="275"

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">//Thinking like a Human Geographer// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Question to Ponder: How would a Human Geographer approach the presence of television in Bhutan?

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">//Latitude and Longitude// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Question to Ponder: Why are maps distorted? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">media type="custom" key="23736470" width="145" height="133" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">media type="custom" key="23736482" width="140" height="140"

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Question to Ponder: How do geographers describe place? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">media type="custom" key="23420824" width="125" height="113" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">//Show Me Video on Latitude// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">media type="custom" key="23464040" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Geography All the Way provides various activities to help learners understand and apply latitude and longitude.

media type="custom" key="23423974" //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Sustainability // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">TED talks <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Alex Steffen: The route to a sustainable future

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Time-Space Compression Examples Flight Radar Live

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McDonald's WORLD Menu <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">NASA Earth Observatory <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Make Your Own GIS Map! (National Geo.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> =<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Articles = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">12 Maps that Changed the World: Is there such thing as the perfect map? Is GPS All In Our Heads? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">How India Became American  <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[|The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Globalization of fast food chains <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> =<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wonderful Websites = Washington Post's 40 Maps that Explain the World: Part One Washington Post's 40 Maps that Explain the World: Part Two <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access: PA Atlas and GIS viewer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Cumberland County, PA Parcel Viewer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Cumberland Valley, PA Map Services <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Flowing Data is a great website that shows an interactive look at how certain topics such as Walmart and Target stores, and TV sizes change over time. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What does your zip code say about you? by ESRI

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