Where’s the Geography in it?
As teachers, we are always looking for two things: how to start the year off and how to connect the everyday to our subject. Here’s an activity I have my students complete at the beginning of the year. It’s a
The true size of countries on a world map – more on Mercator
We’ve known for some time now how the Mercator Projection distorts land masses and the sizes of countries further from the Equator. You’ve probably all seen the humorous portrayal on West Wing. I even wrote a post featuring the Google
News Feature: The quest for the sustainable city | PNAS
Cities have become epicenters for confronting climate change, harnessing renewable energy, and mitigating pollution. The city plans striving for sustainability are many. Easy solutions are few. New York, London, Copenhagen, and most of the other large cities in the developed
The Aurora Forecast is Excellent! –Geophysical Institute
If you have a clear sky tonight and tomorrow night, get out of the city and look up, look way up, to the north and you might just be treated to the Aurora Borealis – the Northern Lights. Forecasts of
The Amazon Is on Fire, but Earth Has Plenty of Oxygen – The Atlantic
Despite what teachers, textbooks, authors, environmentalists and media commentators have been saying for decades, the fact is, most of the oxygen produced on Earth by photosynthesis is NOT from rainforests but from phytoplankton in the oceans. How many of you
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish? | Environment | The Guardian
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis — Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
Most Classroom Globes Are Lying to You – Here’s Why
Here are two ways that most classroom globes are “lying” to us and this has nothing to do with flat-Earth arguments. It’s actual science. — Read on www.forbes.com/
Teaching Development, Appropriately
When you are teaching development this coming school year, please, please, please, use this video: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress It’s a TED Talk given by Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu during TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania in September
In our backyard: What climate change in Canada looks like
In our backyard: What climate change in Canada looks like — Read on www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/index.html Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, has created and excellent web resource highlighting some of the predicted and real impacts the changing climate will have on Canada
EARTH no more, now it’s Nautil.us
I can’t remember the last time I read a full-featured magazine article through to the end – and last night, while sipping coffee on the back deck, I read two. I’m finding, more and more, that many articles found in
There are no passengers on
Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
– Marshall McLuhan
