World Geography: List of countries by arable land
List of countries: Arable land http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/geo_lan_use_ara_lan-geography-land-use-arable The Arab countries have the least arable land. Share
U.S. History: Map of slavery
Visualize slavery: Map of slave states http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/10/opinion/20101210_Disunion_SlaveryMap.html It shows the concentrations of slavery in the South. President Abraham Lincoln used this map.
U.S. History: Videos created by the U.S. government
U.S. government videos: FedFlix http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix I watched the one from the Defense Department: “Defeated People” about Germany, 1946.
Historical Maps
From the University of Texas Map Library
Hurricane Tracking Maps
Not only are these great for monitoring hurricanes (a meteorological masterpiece), but they are wonderful for helping students plot latitude and longitude positions on a map. Get your tracking map here.
Physical Map of the United States
We’ve gotta give it up to Education Place – they have created one of the best physical maps of the US for classroom use. Get your copy here http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/usphys.pdf
San Francisco 1906
Amazing video of San Francisco just days before the 1906 earthquake.
An (aspiring) Educator’s Blog
Academics. I love the exchange of ideas. Unfortunately life and bills tend to get in the way! This morning, however, I was able to follow some twitter links to some academic sites (thanks for the tweets jclerch) when I came across a great little blog -> http://educatorblog.wordpress.com/. The exchange of ideas on at least one [...]
300 Women Who Changed the World
March is Women’s History Month and Encyclopedia Britannica has a great article and bios on 300 women who changed the world. For millennia, women have left their mark on the world, at times changing the course of history and at other times influencing small but significant spheres of life. Only in the past century, however, [...]
