Presentations/Slide Decks
- 5 Themes of Geography - Review (includes info. on regions)
- Types of Maps
- Maps - Review
- Map Analysis
- Timezones - Review
- Continents: the "Great Continent Debate"
- Map Projections PPT
- Map Projections (another PPT)
- Unit 1 Overview PPT – Part Two
- Diffusion
- The Importance of Scale -- Images
Additional Resources
Websites
- Map Projections Explained - Axismaps.com
- TrueSize.com
- Remote sensing vs. GIS -- what's the difference?
- How Google Builds its Maps (The Atlantic)
- Regions -- Formal, Vernacular, Functional (Sciencestruck.com)
- Diffusion of Hip-Hop (Maps)
- And accompanying essay: "The Syncopated Geography of Hip-Hop"
- Purpose of Maps, Thematic Maps (PDF of a textbook excerpt)
Useful videos:
Interesting videos for 'edutainment' value:
- Spatial Distribution (Study.com video)
- TED Talk: The Best Stats You've Ever Seen (Hans Rosling)
- BrainPop: 5 Themes of Geography (see, its quite elementary... You'll get this easily!)
- Why Most Maps are Very Wrong
- Why all world maps are wrong
- Earth, Parallels, Meridians, Latitude and Longitude
- Understanding Time Zones
- Regions of the World (short lecture video reviewing formal, functional and perceptual regions)
Interesting videos for 'edutainment' value:
- Miss. South Carolina Explains Why Americans Cannot locate the U.S. on a Map
- West Wing (Why are we changing maps?)
- Geography, Right Here, Right Now
- Why Should You Care About Geography?
- The World's Weirdest Timezones
- Yakko’s World (What is a country? What is a region?)
- Can You Answer These 3 Geography Questions?