GeoSources 2021

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Population Pyramids and the Demographic Transition Model

Fundamental and essential to understanding Changing Populations are these two geographic models, while being careful not to use these as geographic determinism!

GEOSOURCE 21-44

Understanding Media Bias

When discussing issues of geographic significance, it is helpful for students to have a perspective on what their own, personal biases might be. To begin that process, the slideset and activity examines the Political Spectrum and how that plays out in Canada.

GEOSOURCE 21-43

Christmas – An International Festival

You might be surprised at how international the origins of Christmas really are! Use this Google Slide quiz to better understand
the Geography of Christmas.

GEOSOURCE 21-42

UN World Population Prospects 2019

Another data-driven website based on credibility and reliability. The maps provide a glimpse into the past, some projections into the future for a number of population variables, and are downloadable.

GEOSOURCE 21-41

Our World in Data

"Our World in Data is about Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."

We call it the single most important website for freely-available data and insights that are reliable, credible and up-to-date. Full stop! For example,

World Population Cartogram

Food Waste and GHGs

Fossil Fuel Subsidies by Country

The missing economic measure: Wealth

See their Blog for more

GEOSOURCE 21-40

COP26 Roundup

The leaders have moved on but the negotiations continue. Here is a summary of the major developments from the world's most important international conference:

• Why is COP26 such a big deal?

• COP26 Goals

• World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030

• More than 40 countries pledge to quit coal

• 100 countries announce global pledge to slash methane

• New net-zero alliance of banks, funds prioritizes green investment, but key emitters are absent

• Your Qs about net-zero

• How the world is reacting to the climate summit

• Emissions of rich put climate goals at risk

• Greta Thunberg tells protest that COP26 has been a 'failure'

• Canada will put a cap on oil and gas sector emissions

GEOSOURCE 21-39

ClimateAtlas.ca
"It's not climate change,
it's everything change."

An excellent interactive source to learn about how climate change will affect places across Canada. The Map itself is treasure-trove of comparative data for low and high carbon scenarios, different time periods and every community in Canada, for temperature, precipitation, hot and cold weather, and agriculture. Additionally, there are PDF reports for each place, topic pages for agriculture, forestry and others, and many helpful videos and articles. Wow!

GEOSOURCE 21-38

Resource Watch

"Monitoring the planet's pulse"

Up-to-date information, maps and graphs for a host of resource-oriented issues: Energy, Water, Food,Forests, Ocean Watch, Cities, Climate, and Society

GEOSOURCE 21-37

BII - Biodiversity Intactness Index

Recently, the Natural History Museum and RSPB in the UK released a report about the loss of biodiversity in the UK, comparing the UK to other countries, including Canada. There is also an interactive World Map of BII offered by ResourceWatch. Though the data is from 2005, it is just as relevant today and shows some interesting patterns obscured by country averages. A static 2020 map may be found here.

GEOSOURCE 21-36

WRI: ClimateWatch

An extensive collection of maps and graphs from the World Resources Institute illustrating GHG Emissions, Net-Zero Targets and Tracking, with country profiles – all fully downloadable- as well as an interactive video and a slide deck.

GEOSOURCE 21-35

Espace mondiale
World Atlas of Global Issues

from SciencesPo, Paris France is one of the most comprehensive and feature-rich sources of maps, graphs and information on current issues of global significance. It is available in both English et aussi en français.

GEOSOURCE 21-34

Climate Reanalyzer

Another great website to become lost in . . . Produced by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, CR allows you to examine numerous climate data sets for regions around the world.

Start with the Monthly Reanalysis Timeseries, then select from a multitude of variables. Try the Environmental Change Model to see how biomes will shift with temperature change.

GEOSOURCE 21-33

Gapminder Quiz

Help kick-start discussions in any world geography course by taking the Gapminder Quiz. Better than any lesson, video or documentary, the quiz will "Upgrade your worldview!" Gapminder is also the source for Bubble Charts, Maps, Pyramids, Line Charts, Ranks, Income Mountains, Dollar Street and the always helpful slide shows and Hans Rosling videos.

GEOSOURCE 21-32

Pacing Out Canada
(or the US, Australia, China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Chile, Norway . . .)

Here is an outdoor activity to start the school year off right. Students can apply some mapping skills and get a first-hand look at how large Canada really is. It's easy to do in one class with minimal resources and is a fun way to begin discussions on the issues faced by a large country with cities spread far apart.

GEOSOURCE 21-31

Canadian Geographic Education Resources

If you haven't explored the resources Canadian Geographic has to offer, you must! With a new search function it is much easier to locate age- and topic-appropriate resources: videos, tiled maps, teacher guides, lesson plans, infographics – and they are all bilingual. Welcome back to school, Canada!

GEOSOURCE 21-30

Photos from Across Canada

Seeing is believing. Add visuals to your presentations and projects!
The Digital Atlas Project is delighted to support the teaching and learning of Geography across Canada with a collection of photographs organized into the six regions of Canada. They are available for educational purposes under "Fair Use" guidelines in a school or home setting.

GEOSOURCE 21-29

Canada: Physical Interactions gSlides

A new interactive teaching-learning resource of maps, climate graphs and a profile across Canada for students to identify interactions between physical features including elevation, landforms, climate, vegetation – and more! A GeoEssential resource for Physical Interactions in the CGC Canadian Geography course

GEOSOURCE 21-28

Formation of North America, 540mya to Today

New from old - this is Christopher Scotese's PALEOMAP Project time lapse video reversed, showing the accretion of the Appalachian Highlands, seafloor spreading and the accretion of the Western Cordillera. It's a great introduction to Physical Interactions in the CGC Canadian Geography course

GEOSOURCE 21-27

FireSmoke.ca

Interactive hour-by-hour wildfire and smoke forecasts for Canada and the northern United States

GEOSOURCE 21-26

Antarctica

Everything you wanted to know and learn about Antartica is right here at AntarcticGlaciers.org including Glacial Processes and Landforms, StoryMaps, Datasets, Photos, Climate Change . . . everything!

GEOSOURCE 21-25

Highways and Hailstones Live Tornado Chasing

For better or worse, storm-chasing has become a spectator sport. In my local area, InstantWeather provides Facebook and YouTube livestream updates of developing cells. H&H is live weather on steroids, providing a front row seat to storm-chasing across the North American continent, taking our fascination with weather to a new level!

GEOSOURCE 21-24

Geography Fieldwork

Need fieldwork ideas? This is a great source—a "how to" for teachers for whom fieldwork may be new. Teachers in the UK will be familiar with the FSC as it is an invaluable website for GCSE and A level, but for us in the RoW, the ideas are easily adaptable for IGCSE, IB, and all local syllabi.

GeoSource 21-23

Interactive Demographic Transition Model

The DTM is one of those models fundamental to discussions of population, population growth and human development. Explore the DTM with this interactive ArcGIS presentation.

GeoSource 21-22

FlightRadar24

Want to know what's happening in the airspace above you? Want to chart an incoming or outgoing flight? How about that Great Circle Route over the Arctic? See it all LIVE with FlightRadar24. Zoom in. Click on a flight to all of its data – amazing!

GeoSource 21-21

GeoFolio

Take a detailed look at places around the world: land cover, topography, hydrology, climate, etc. Great tool for comparing places; e.g. Guelph, ON - Chelmsford, UK - Arusha TZ

GeoSource 21-20

Military Spending
VisualCapitalist

Maps and data provided for total value of spending and for spending as a proportion of GDP

GeoSource 21-19

IDMC Report 2021 on Internal Displacement

More people were displaced by climate change last year than by conflict. See also: Main Website | YouTube (1:30)

GeoSource 21-18

HHMI Interactive World Biomes

An excellent online app for exploring world biomes, anthromes, and the factors influencing their location.

GeoSource 21-17

Climate Graphs Interactive World Map

78 climate graphs from around the world are served to you in this interactive gSlide web-app along with maps of temperature, precipitation and biomes

GeoSource 21-16

The World as 100 People

GeoSource 21-15

World Happiness Report 2021

People are remaining happy, despite the burden COVID has added to our lives.

GeoSource 21-14

Google Earth Timelapse

A fantastic, but downright depressing, addition to Google Earth. Perhaps, once people see how much we are changing Earth and our local regions, people will begin to "Think Different" about development and lifestyles.

How to | BBC | CNN | gEarth-Ed

GeoSource 21-13

Marine Traffic

After all the kerfuffle about the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal and choke points in shipping, Marine Traffic shows it all, opening great discussions on shipping patterns, oil tanker routes, fishing areas, and containers ships.

GeoSource 21-12

eChalk Resources

Online animations of all things Geographical: OS maps, climate, rivers, weather, plate tectonics, and more, There is a fee, but everything I've tested works without it.

GeoSource 21-11

Project 17

A series of 5min videos of 17-year-olds and each SDG from BBC World Service

GeoSource 21-10

Mapped: The Drainage Basins of the World’s Longest Rivers

Not just the map, but some data too. Perfect for World Geography and for introducing rivers and river patterns.

GeoSource 21-9

Plant-based diets and Climate Change

Straight from one of the most trusted data sources: OurWorldInData.org

GeoSource 21-8

EN-ROADS Climate Change Simulator

As an educator, I've been looking for a simulator like this for students to interactively create scenarios to help humanity reach 2°C or even 1.5°C. This is it, complete with video and doc support.

GeoSource 21-7

This one is for educators:

PopulationEducation.org

I recently attended a PopEd webinar and was energized by the excellent interactive lessons they offer teachers, complete with virtual versions, on Population, Resource/Environmental Connections and Societal Connections

GeoSource 21-6

Global Carbon Project

with the Global Carbon Atlas
The Carbon Story from past to present to future; the Global Carbon Budget; CH4 Budget; and N2O Budget

GeoSource 21-5

Numbeo: Cost of Living Comparison

Comparing global cities? Here's a great site to help.

GeoSource 21-4

Covid Performance Index

Some interesting geography here.

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ESRI - GeoInquiries™

GeoInquiries™ are 15-minute instructional activities that use interactive maps to enhance the academic instruction of standards-based topics in a variety of subjects from grades 4-12 – all online and without having to install ArcGIS.Getting to Know GeoInquiries

GeoSource 21-2

3rd World Farmer

Though I'm not a fan of the name "3rd World Farmer", this is an excellent simulation for creating empathy for and understanding of the difficulties faced by subsistence farmers the world over. My students love it and come to appreciate how difficult life is for many.

GeoSource 21-1

Climate Graphs Interactive World Map

78 climate graphs from around the world are served to you in this interactive gSlide web-app along with maps of temperature, precipitation and biomes