Fieldwork settlement

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/igcse_geography/fieldwork/fieldwork.htm

http://www.geography-fieldwork.org/

I found this very useful video about megacities :

Migration

By the end of this lesson students should be able to define the term 'voluntary migrations'; understand the pull factors and explain the push factors; explain rural-urban migration; understand the effects of rural urban migration; compare urban-rural migration to rural-urban migration; define the term 'counter urbanisation'; explain the term 'international migration'; compare immigration to emigration; understand the consequences of migration; define migrant labour; understand the effect of the migrant labour system on the host country; understand the implications of the migrant worker; define forced migration; understand what causes refugees to flee from a country; and compare the advantages and disadvantages of the refugees' movements.

Guardian Teacher Network

settlements

People-powered maps

Great maps that show countries according to where people live.
Interesting article here: people-powered maps
slide show here: in pictures

main website here: http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/

Ho fatto un transcript di questo video della BBC e ho individuato alcune cifre parole e concetti che gli studenti potrebbero divertirsi ad indovinare prima di vederlo .

I gaps sono di diverse tipologie e il transcript in un caso o due non è fedele.

Spero sia utile .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15445092

 

World population explained with IKEA boxes

Explaining population growth requires simplification, but not oversimplification.
In this TED video, Hans Rosling explains why ending poverty – over the coming decades – is crucial to stop population growth. Only by raising the living standards of the poorest, in an environmentally-friendly way, will population growth stop at 9 billion people in 2050.


Explaining population growth with IKEA boxes

world population

Interactive updated data sheet on world population.

Go to    PRB world population

PRB has also produced a short informative video that  provides a simple overview of population trends that have created a world of 7 billion people.

here: 7 Billion and Counting

Questo sito mette a disposizione una serie di giochi interattivi per il ripasso degli argomenti di geografia tutti basati sul Penalty shootout . Gli studenti si divertiranno molto !
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/Population%20Challenge.html

Homo Sapiens

 

Homo Sapiens Exhibit overview (Trento 2012)

text from homosapiens.net

 What happened in that long and mysterious period of time between the birth of our genus Homo in Africa and that of the human history written with a capital ‘H’ that we study in school? Where did the many populations whose successors are living in every region of the Earth come from? We, as a human species, have only been on this planet for a very short time. 

Homo sapiens. The great history of human diversity tells where we came from and how we managed, migration by migration, to populate the entire planet, constructing a kaleidoscopic mosaic of current human diversity.

Today for the first time, an international group of scientists has begun to connect the paths of ancient history that led our species to leave a small valley in Ethiopia less than 200,000 years ago to colonize the whole planet, region after region, spreading to form a wide variety of peoples and different cultures.
The exhibition consists of an emotional, dramatic and profound narrative that is continuous, with an interdisciplinary approach to human evolution and the history of human diversity. It follows a chronological order of events and situations, with each section based on a mix of different forms of expression: the valuable original objects (a fossil, a tool, an artifact, an ethnographic object) in plaster casts and copies; reconstructions of scenes and stories, spectacular models of hominids and huge extinct animals, interactive displays, immersive video and photo installations; geographical maps and topographic maps. Environmental lighting and sounds then complete the installation, enriching it with artistic suggestions.

Watch the video
Homo Sapiens

 

The Universe-One more level

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012

Da La Repubblica 5 ottobre 2012
La guerra delle mappe. Vecchie carte o digitali, perché discutiamo sulla rappresentazione del mondo.

Achille Varzi La guerra delle mappe

Mapping our world

What is the relationship between maps and globes ? How do different projections influence our perception of the world? Let's challenge the idea that there is one 'correct' version of the world map.

mapping our world

Sesame street. Grover's map of South America

Grover the waiter doesn't stop talking about "this wonderful, glorious map" of South America and his customer misses his flight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IqrwO1PK-xk

10 reasons why

10 Ten Reasons Why Every Student Should Study Geography

Geographic Education

Enseignement de la géographie

To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun relationships,

water cycles, wind and ocean currents).

To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places

in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.

To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important

roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places and environments.

To develop a mental map of your community, province or territory, country and the world

so that you can understand the “where” of places and events.

To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and

sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.

To understand the spatial organization of society and see order in what often appears to

be random scattering of people and places.

To recognize spatial distributions at all scales – local and worldwide – in order to

understand the complex connectivity of people and places.

To be able to make sensible judgements about matters involving relationships between the

physical environment and society.

To appreciate Earth as the homeland of humankind and provide insight for wise

management decisions about how the planet’s resources should be used.

To understand global interdependence and to become a better global citizen.

This video I found on Youtube is useful to get an idea about the advantagers and disadvantages of the different kind of maps used in geography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI36MWAH54s

Map Projection and yourself

cd’s What Your Favourite Map Projection Says About You

This captures the different opinions on some of the many map projections perfectly. You may have gathered from the opening lines of this post that projections are really important and often considered too complicated to bother with. I’m all for the Winkel-Tripel although I can’t claim to have been a fan before the National Geographic adopted it, as I would have been too young to care at the time.

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Geography Awareness Week

Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek), celebrated every third week of November, is an awareness program focused on highlighting the importance of geo-literacy and geo-education. A new theme for each year is announced in midsummer accompanied by related online resources and activities, which are then available year-round.

GAWeek 2012 - Declare Your Interdependence

This year’s Geography Awareness Week theme explores the idea that we are all are connected to the rest of the world through the decisions we make on a daily basis, including what foods we eat and the things we buy.

Have your students investigate their own interdependence by completing the “Global Closet Calculator”–an interactive game that aggregates the contents of their own closets by origin to generate a map showing their unique global footprint.

Download and print this year’s poster to find global connections with students by investigating the geography of the pencil or doing a hands-on version of the global closet game.

Planning Geography Awareness Week Events

Find everything you need to plan events in your own community, school, or neighborhood on the Geography Awareness Week toolkit page.

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