Education

Tools for Adventure: Children’s Map Exhibition
Tools for Adventure is a travelling exhibition about maps, targeted at children from grades three through five, produced by the National Geographic Society and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. It’s currently at Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex (in Waco, Texas) through… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions
Mapping High School Graduation Rates
Andy Anderson wrote to point to an older (2006) item from Education Week that is nonetheless worth a look: Mapping Out High School Graduation. From the article: “The EPE Research Center mapped 2002-03 graduation rates for public school districts… »
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Categories: Education
Geography Tutor Videos
Excerpts from TMW Media Group’s Geography Tutor video series have been posted to YouTube; map-related clips include the above video on map projections, this clip on the International Date Line and this clip on the use of colour in… »
Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Categories: Education, Map Projections, Video
The Longitude and Latitude Song
John Krygier points to the “Longitude and Latitude” song. Performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans, the song comes from Space Songs, one of several science-education albums recorded in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Six of those albums can… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Categories: Education, Fun
A Geologic Map in Every School
The West Texas Geological Society is running a project to put a large geologic map of the United States into every elementary school in Midland and Odessa, Texas — a project apparently based on another in Corpus Christi. Via All… »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 7:49 AM
Categories: Earth Sciences, Education
Turners Falls High School and the U.S. Community Atlas
The Springfield Republican reports on a GIS project conducted by students of Turners Falls High School, which is part of ESRI’s U.S. Community Atlas program. The students produced a number of maps of the towns of Gill, Montague and… »
Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Education, GIS
Map Course at the London Rare Books School
If you have four days in July and £500, there’s a course called A History of Maps and Map-making being offered by the University of London’s Institute of English Studies as part of the new London Rare Books School, which… »
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 7:27 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Education
U.S. Army’s Field Manual on Map Reading and Navigation
This is a real find: the U.S. Army field manual for map reading and navigation, including those things related to maps that the Army felt a soldier should know. (Which, according to chapter one, seems to be quite a… »
Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Categories: Education
More Memory Maps
Jason Kottke is fascinated by memory maps — that is to say, maps drawn entirely from memory. In addition to some sites we’ve seen here before (previous entries below), he presents a couple more for our enjoyment. First, the… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 8:38 PM
Categories: Art, Education
Poll: 20% Think Map Reading Is a Redundant Skill
About 20 per cent of respondents to a Nickelodeon survey of adults and children think that map reading is a redundant skill, the New York Daily News reports, putting map reading in the same category as spelling and using a… »
Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Categories: Education
Ask MetaFilter on U.S. Geographic Literacy
An interesting question posted to Ask MetaFilter last night: “It’s a cliché about people from the USA that they are ignorant of geography. Not just world geography but their own as well. … So, is there some explanation in the… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 7:51 AM
Categories: Education
Earth from Space
The Smithsonian’s Earth from Space is an online exhibition of satellite imagery; images include climate, geology and human activity. It’s also a physical exhibition, on a tour that began last month and continues until January 2010. Lesson plans are… »
Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 8:42 AM
Categories: Education, Satellite & Aerial
Zoom Into Maps
The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division’s Zoom Into Maps site isn’t just an educational tool and teaching resource, it’s a portal into, guide to and sample of the division’s very large map collection. Via Very Spatial…. »
Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 10:02 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Education
Google Earth in the Classroom
Google for Educators, a web site about using Google’s stuff in the classroom, includes a section on using Google Earth in teaching, including some lesson plans. Via Ogle Earth. There’s also a page on using Google Maps in the classroom,… »
Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 8:23 AM
Categories: Education, Google Earth
Learning at the British Library
Learning at the British Library has a section on maps — not a comprehensive archive, but a selection that illustrates key themes for educative purposes using examples from the Library’s collection. Four sections: ideas, lies and deception, war, and wealth… »
Posted on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 9:37 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Education
Le Dessous des cartes
Le petit blog cartographique points to an archive of maps from Le Dessous des cartes, a shortly weekly program broadcast on the German-French arts and education network, Arte. The maps are from episodes from 1998 to 2001…. »
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Education
Ordnance Survey: Free Maps for 11 Year Olds
Cartography points to the Ordnance Survey’s Free Maps for 11 Year Olds program, which, according to a recent news release, has doubled the number of students who feel confident using maps and tripled the number who enjoy using them. The… »
Posted on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 8:55 AM
Categories: Education
Link Roundup for January 14
Ben Keene, the editor of Oxford University Press’s atlas program (see previous entry), looks at the changes in geography he had to deal with in 2005 (via World Hum). MapQuest has inadvertently left Edmonton off a map of Canadian cities… »
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 8:32 AM
Categories: Blogs, Books, Cartography, Education, Mapping Errors, Satellite & Aerial, Software
Understanding Spatial Abilities
If you’re reading this, you probably like maps, and quite likely can read them without much effort. So it might be easy to forget that map literacy isn’t necessarily a given, but it is important. Why Some Students Have Trouble… »
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2005 at 10:32 PM
Categories: Education
School Project Maps Road Hazards
Schoolchildren in Liverpool, as part of a safety project called “Our Walk to School,” have mapped their local areas in an attempt to highlight road and traffic hazards; the maps, on A4 paper, have been collected in an atlas which,… »
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions, Traffic Conditions
American Ethnic Geography
American Ethnic Geography: the web site for a second-year geography course at Valparaiso University has an excellent collection of map galleries; the maps — mostly GIFs, some PDFs — provide a wealth of interesting information on North American demographics: ethnicity,… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 1:23 PM
Categories: Demography, Education
Growth of a Nation
This ten-minute animated presentation depicts the growth and territorial development of the U.S. since 1789; with audio. It’s one of several similar products from Animated Atlas aimed at classroom use; the others, though, cost money. Via Kottke…. »
Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 3:42 PM
Categories: Education, Historical Maps
Canadian Geographic’s Crummy Canadian Atlas
The Royal Canadian Geographic Society, which publishes Canadian Geographic, launched the Canadian Geographic Atlas Online yesterday. It garnered lots of media coverage. Too bad it sucks. To begin with, there isn’t much in the way of maps: it’s more a… »
Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 8:57 PM
Categories: Education
Garrett Library Exhibition
Ending January 15, a public exhibit by the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library at the University of Texas at Arlington, Mapmaker’s Vision, Beholder’s Eyes: The Art of Maps. “The exhibit explores the elaborate artistry of cartography and seeks to answer… »
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 at 11:01 AM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions, Libraries
Maps in Teaching
A private school in Texas is using maps in its curriculum as a means of combining art, history and science instruction, the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reports…. »
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 2:24 PM
Categories: Education

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