Theres good news and theres bad news about our earth and maps today..first the bad news…
HAVE A LAZER POINTER WITH YOU AND A GOOGLE MAP PEN FOR A PRIZE OF THE CANADIAN PROVINCES..
Good news and bad news
300,000 pieces of trash floating around the earth…Recently China intentionally blew up one of its satilites..and well, no worries..NASA is currently tracking 19,000 pieces…do the math..300.000 and we are tracking 19.000
In other news, although the pieces of trash might find the US…hopefully they will land somewhere in the northwest region because no body knows the names of those states… This is a map coming from a test of Brits who tried to name all of the states…hey A+ that they know where Florida is, right? Midwest didn’t even get an honorable mention….
And, well, turn about is fair play…look what americans know about Europe…ONE OF THESE IS BELGIUM…so….ok, lets just go with I don’t know enough countries for this…
All kinds of maps are useful for students to decipher…this one is CRAZY and filled with dialects…I want to talk to who made this map…look at all those squiqqly lines in the midwest…actually, one time in Montreal, when they found out I was from St. Louis, they asked me why didn’t I have a southern accent? They also pronounce arkansas ARK Kansas….hey, any one know all the providences of Canada? First of all, how many are there? GIVE OUT PRIZE!
How about this map? We can see that Missouri NEEDS a cyberbully law!
Crazy bouncy ball or heat map of the world?
Now for the good news….newspaper with a smiley face? Happy student faces?
Insert TED talk logo and talk about it before jumping into Heidi Jacob Hayes slide
Heidi Hayes Jacobs proposes putting GEO in front of every thing you teach, geo essay, geo economics..and I say WHY NOT? Cross curricular is the way to teach
You can find all of the civil war battles by location as a KMZ inside Google Earth…and when you click on each one…even more information!
Do you want a very cool Geo game? Gamification is definitely an educational buzz word these days…Add picture of Geoguessr.com
Math and Geography! Who knew? Google maps and your OWN school with different geometry figures..
GOOGLE LIT TRIPS!! Anne Frank comes alive thanks to Jerome Burg and his outstanding website! Newspapermap.com all the newspapers in the world waiting for your and your students to read!
A map showing active volcanoes off of Alaska…something showing proof of Science and Geography..
If you are MAD about MAPS like me …come join us at one of the two offered Google GEO Institutes and learn…