Friday, July 27, 2012

A gladbag of sites for the teaching of the Australian Curriculum: Geography


Image: Sunrise over Sydney.

Related sites to the Spatialworlds project


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Here is an array of some interesting sites (with no theme) that have come my way over the past month.  Again I have referenced/mapped to the Australian Curriculum Geography to show how so many sites can be used for the teaching of this new geography curriculum.





* Infographic
A site that has a graphic (visualisation of something) a day and an archive of past graphics. Great site for visual literacy.
This site would be useful to support the learning program for all years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Foursquare social network mapping
The Livehoods Project presents a new methodology for studying the dynamics, structure, and character of a city on a large scale using social media and machine learning. Using data such as tweets and check-ins, we are able to discover the hidden structures of the city with machine learning. Our techniques reveal a snap-shot of the dynamic areas that comprise the city, which we call Livehoods. Livehoods allow us to investigate and explore how people actually use the city, simultaneosly shedding light onto the factors that come together to shape the urban landscape and the social texture of city life, including municipal borders, demographics, economic development, resources, geography, and planning. Livehoods is a research project from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

This site would be useful to support the learning program in the Year 9 Interconnection unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Cool website
ClimaScope provides spatially explicit climate change data for 18 climate model patterns, for the new IPCC RCP scenarios, the old SRES scenarios, and specific adaptation scenarios for 2C, 3C and 4C warming.

This site would be useful to support the learning program in the Year 10 Environmental change and management unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) came from the concept of the balance between "Yin" and "Yang" of Tai chi in traditional Chinese wisdom.
The typhoon is a natural choice for the key feature in the logo of the HKO because members of the public always look towards the Observatory at times of typhoon. The cross at the centre symbolises the monitoring of typhoon rain bands by radar, representing round-the-clock surveillance of the weather by HKO and our target of making accurate weather forecasts. The typhoon symbol is extended laterally and fitted into an elliptic frame representing the shape of the Earth. It highlights the concept of stable equilibrium and prudency. It also alludes to geophysics and related sciences being part of the work of HKO.
Furthermore, two "S" symbols embedded in the HKO logo, a white "S" and a blue "S". They stand for "Science" and "Service" and stand for the fundamental philosophy of "Service based on Science".

This site would be useful to support the learning program for the Year 7 Water unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Culture, thinking, perceptions and Climate Change
Some polling data in which people were asked what factor shaped their acceptance of climate change. Buried in the data were two apparently contradictory findings: there is a large partisan divide in acceptance of climate change, but most respondents said they base their acceptance on their personal experience of the weather. Assuming that hot weather shows no partisan bias, this doesn't make much sense—political beliefs shouldn't influence what we think about the weather. And yet they do. That's the conclusion of a new paper that dives into extensive polling data to find out how people perceive different trends in the climate.
This site would be useful to support the learning program for the Year 10 Environmental change and management unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography

A food security index that ranks individual countries on food affordability, accessibility, availability, nutritional value and safety. An interactive site listing all the countries with supporting data.

This site would be useful to support the learning program for the Year 9 Biomes and Food Security and Year 10 Geogrpahies of Human Well-being units of the Australian Curriculum: Geography

* Geography and Spatial literacy
This site would be useful to support the learning program for Years 5-10 of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* What a wonderful world
A beautiful video able awe and wonder of the world from the BBC.
This site would be useful to support the learning program for all years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Children need more geography field trips, says Michael Palin
Schools should place a renewed focus on traditional geography field trips to stop pupils being trapped behind computer screens in the classroom, Michael Palin has warned.

This site would be useful to support the learning program for all years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Anthill below the ground

This site would be useful to support the learning program for all years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Fact a day

This site would be useful to support the learning program for all years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* All the world's earthquakes since 1898 on one map
Design reveals silhouettes of Earth's tectonic boundaries in stunning, luminous color
This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 8 Landscape and Landform unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
* Mapping London’s Population change
For London, it’s the city’s most visible stride towards promoting greater density. And a much needed one. Although firm data for the past decade is not yet available, spatial analysis for London shows a rise in density up until the 1950s, before things then started to retreat. This decline density persisted until 2001. The same analysis shows a forecast to 2030, which shows density continuing to decline. (Given the crush on the tube, presumably few locals have felt this effect.) But the question here is whether the Shard marks a reversal at all; it certainly would within the borough it’s located, but perhaps others will instead leave to make way for the new arrivals.

This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 9 Shaping a Nation unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* Better cities now
This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 9 Shaping a Nation unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* Top 200 of the Worlds tallest buildings
This overview is the most accurate compilation of its kind and uses in-depth research results and reliable building information. It is based on data standards as outlined by the Emporis Standards committee (ESC). This listing is verified and updated continuously and includes high-rise buildings which have been topped out as well as those still under construction or on hold.

This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 9 Shaping a Nation unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* Skyscaper index

This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 9 Shaping a Nation unit of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
* Strange maps
This site is a collection and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think. An anthology of maps from this blog was published by Penguin in 2009.

This site would be useful to support the learning program for Year 5-10 of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.

 
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