A powerpoint slide show given at Keele University's Geography Booster Course to the 2007/8 PGCE students.

1. “ Humans must rise above the Earth… to the top of the atmosphere and beyond. For only thus will we understand the world in which we live.” Socrates, 400 BC You are here

14. The World Map – different projections; physical

15. Chloropleth maps

16. Cartogram – proportional

17. What is this a map of? "We are preparing ourselves for up to 1,000 dead bodies from this flood alone …” Insp Daniel Gezahenge, 2006 www.worldmapper.org Territory size shows the proportion of all deaths caused by disasters, which overwhelm local resources, that died there 1975-2004.

18. Ordnance Survey

19. Topological

21. Topographical (Large scale detail/relief/physical and human features)

22. Topographical – street maps!

23. Conceptual See Appendix ‘ World According to Dubya’

24. Fantasy

25. Plans

27. Mercator v. Peter’s Projections MERCATOR PETER But which is best?! http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/mappingourworld/mapping_our_world/l/lesson2/chatshow.htm Cylindrical Equal area Conformal

28. Other famous projections Hipparchus’ Azimuthal orthographic : "realistic" view of Earth as seen from space Hipparchus’ Azimuthal stereographic: circle-preserving; shows at most a hemisphere Mollweide’s elliptical: Pseudocylindrical, equal-area, meridians are ellipses Robinson’s Pseudocylindrical, equal-area compromise, poles are 1/3 as long as the Equator

31. Which North? Grid North? Magnetic North? True North?

42. North South Divide LLEDCs? RICs? NICs?

50. Questions to think about… Are you comfortable with Relph’s ideas? The concept of ‘placelessness’, in particular, has been criticised by some Geographers. Is it possible to teach students to develop a sense of place? Should we spend time reflecting on their relationships with places?

53. Questions to think about… Which of these ideas do you see as useful for informing your own teaching about places? How might Massey’s ideas inform teaching about immigration? What are the values underlying these ideas?

54. GB, UK, BI? Britishness?? See Appendix: Filming the City Scotland England Wales Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland

60. WHO DREW THIS MAP?

62. The world at night…

66. The PGCE Year Enjoy it!

68. If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and the holes in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come and pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives would be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter. Joe Miller ENJOY IT!