Image above: Watch the reverse waterfall. Rather strange but true! The reverse waterfall is near Pune in India and it's called the Rayareshwar Waterfall. This reverse effect only happens in June and July month due to freaky air pressure - I think!
Related links to Spatialworlds
GeogSplace (a teaching blog for Year 12 geography)
Geogaction
Spatialworlds website
GeogSpace
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
Getting back into it!
I have been busy in my non-geography DECD world during this year and as a result the Spatialworlds blog postings have been limited. As I begin to leave the bureaucratic world behind upon retirement from DECD, I can get back into the fascinating spatialworld of geography. Here are just a few neat sites I have come across in the past week. Plenty more to follow!!
The federal
government has announced it will withhold childcare benefits for parents who do
not vaccinate their children. What areas of Australia have the lowest child
immunisation rates? Here is another example of the power of maps to show difference across space. The question as always, is why dos the variance occur from one place in Australia to another , in this case about immunisation rates.
This
map shows the per cent of children aged five years who were fully immunised
2012-2013. It's a choropleth map - areas are shaded in proportion to the
measurement.
The
areas shown are the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Statistical Area
Level 3 geography standard (SA3) - a standardised regional breakup of Australia
for the analysis of ABS data. The SA3 areas have populations between 30,000 and
130,000 and they are often the functional areas of regional cities and large
urban transport and service hubs.
* Interactive World Population map: a very interesting interactive map to show demographic status and change
* Some great geography games for this time of year
Spacehopper is a game based on Google Maps Street View
imagery. Spacehopper shows you a Street View image and you have to guess where
in the world the image was captured. You can click the clue button to have the
country identified before making a guess. After three incorrect guesses the
correct answer will be revealed to you. You can play Spacehopper on a global
level or you can specify that you only want to see images from a particular
continent.
Overlap Maps is a free service that can be used to quickly
compare the size of countries, states, provinces, and some bodies of water. To
create a visual comparison of two countries select one country from the
"overlap this" menu and select one country from the "onto
this" menu. The comparisons you make are displayed on a map. You can make
comparisons from different categories. For example, you can overlap Lake Erie
onto New Hampshire.
Where is...? is another good game geography game. This game uses a popular format for geography games; the name of a city is presented to the players and they have to click the map to guess where the city is located. Players are given immediate feedback on their accuracy in the form of a measurement, in kilometers, of the distance between their guesses and the correct answers.
Where is...? is another good game geography game. This game uses a popular format for geography games; the name of a city is presented to the players and they have to click the map to guess where the city is located. Players are given immediate feedback on their accuracy in the form of a measurement, in kilometers, of the distance between their guesses and the correct answers.
Smarty
Pins is
a Google Maps game develop by Google. Smarty Pins presents players with a
trivia question that they have to answer by placing a pin on a map. Players
earn "miles" for correctly placing a pin on the map. Players can lose
miles for answering incorrectly and or taking too long to answer. Games are
available in five categories; arts & culture, science & geography,
sports & games, entertainment, and history & current events.
