Internet Sites 2008-2009 for AP Teachers Collected by Julie Wakefield AP Geo Wiki by Allison Hunt http://humangeo.wetpaint.com Another Wikispace for AP Teachers http://aphgteachers.wikispaces.com/ Another Wikispace http://pslgeography.wetpaint.com/page/AP+Human+Geography Student created Wiki http://aphgatgphs08.wetpaint.com/ Front Page News http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ PBS- Death in the Desert http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mexico/ Population Reference Bureau www.prb.org http://flowingdata.com/category/mapping/ Newsmap: http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ Photos from The Great Mirror: http://www.greatmirror.com/ Someone willing to share their bookmarks http://delicious.com/WendyDG/humangeography AEJEE (Arc Explorer Java Edition for Educators). It is a free download from the ESRI site and they have canned lessons that you could modify for AP, especially for demographics. http://kycivics.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/from-bikinis-to-cartograms/ Here is an interactive map of the diffusion of Wal-mart online. http://www.planetizen.com/node/34302 Beijing Olympics http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/planetsport/beijing2008 http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1283.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP. html Powerpoint Palooza www.pptpalooza.net Burgess Model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/concentric_zone_model http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch6en/conc6en/burgess.html Frontline/World website - The one called “Bhutan: the Last Place” is one I am definitely going to use about the effect of cable TV coming to Bhutan. There is also a great one on Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and many others. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ http://mrs-eubanks-class-rss-geography.wikispaces.com/ activities and powerpoints for Agriculture Unit http://extension.usu.edu/aitc/teachers/secondary/powerpoint.html DeBlij textbook site http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=0471679518&bcsId=3141 ------------------------------------One of the LOC’s current exhibits is “Exploring the Americas.” You can access it online at: http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/earlyamericas/Pages/default.aspx. If you click on learn more at this site, you’ll be connected with two map lessons, both of which connect especially well with Chapter 1 of Knox and Marston, if you use that text. (1) Waldseemüller’s Map: World 1507 http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/waldseemuller.aspx (2) Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589 http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/drake.aspx The neat thing about both of these lessons is that the maps are divided into sheets ready to print in .pdf format, and when the sheets are put up together, they create a large map for display. Using either map would make a great contrast to the map of the world today. There is also a third lesson: The Huexotzinco Codex http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/codex.aspx http://www.ethnic-conflict.info/ This is the website of a book called, "Fields of Fire". If you pay, you can buy or download the whole book as a PDF document - with some 100 or more "ethnic conflicts" (?) summarized/analyzed into two pages each. There are sample pages on the website. It's a great resource. Here's another thought-provoker: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html (a TED talk by Steven Pinker on the history of violence) http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/26/top-10-ted-talks.html that speaks with great authority and clarity about the complexity of population demographics and the misuse they are sometimes put to. It is very pertinent both for the units on population and the units that deal with development. My students were enthralled with that particular 15 minute presentation and it lent itself to very productive classroom discussion. The Demographics TED Talk is by Hans Rosling. Here's the TED link. http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/02/03/history_is_demographics.html Extinct languages clip http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/15/us/20081015-arapaho/index.html?th&emc=th# Spatial Studies Wesbite http://www.csiss.org/ Electoral vote cartogram http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~indy/gis/eVote.html List of bookmarks from a listserv member http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/mlindberg001 Spatial Concepts http://www.gtav.asn.au/Units/spatialconcepts/index.htm http://euro-challenge.org/news/ http://www.theplaceswelive.com/ NY Times – Maya Lin’s work http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/07/arts/design/1194832296918/maya-lins-wave-field.html?oref=slogin# http://show.mappingworlds.com/ Ethnic Grocery Stores – NY Times http://nytimes.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=9128789598109df5698b1ff83a6431eb6c971dcd&scp=14&sq=ethnic&st=m BluePrint America – Road to the Future http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ NPR story on global trends (population, economics, demographics, migration, etc http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97295939 www.freedocumentaries.org http://audiovideo.economist.com/ A new module on Teaching with Google Earth, has been released, with detailed instructions and many ideas for bringing rich imagery and interactive information into the classroom. This website includes an in-depth user guide, a tip sheet handout for students, references, and instructions for working with KML, Google Earth API and Google Maps. There are over 25 different examples of activities using Google Earth, spanning topics in environmental science, geology, geography, and biology. This module is authored by Glenn Richard of Stony Brook University. "Spread of Religions" in the Annenberg series Bridging World History PBS World on Ireland-uneasy peace, Sri Lanka, Bosnia-men who got away to deal with ethnic issues. They all know about Rwanda and Darfur but showing clips on those is also good. Ghosts of Rwandashort clips instead of the whole thing can be streamed online from Frontline. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/magazine/chi-mxa1214magazinemuseumpg20-22dec14,0,5791530.story http://www.whoppervirgins.com/ Time Magazine – Gorbachev advertisement http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/ffximage/mikhail_wideweb__470x295,2.jpg Commentary on the Time Magazine ad http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/10/hidden_louis_vuitton_ad_messag.html The UNPO: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. http://www.unpo.org/ http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=636 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?th&emc=th Promises – video from the point of views of kids in Israel http://www.promisesproject.org/ http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/intheclassroom.html In the December 1, 2008 Time Magazine there were a series of maps from a project called The Measure of America. The web site is http://measureofamerica.org Scroll to the bottom and click on Interactive Maps. There are maps of the United States using a variety of topics, i.e., Human Development Index, Health, Education, Income, etc. Once you view a map you have the option of seeing the map by State or by Congressional District. Also, you can select to change how the data is divided up. It can be divided up by Quantiles, Equal Size, or Optimal. http://www.nationalanthems.info/ http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gisrael2/flash.htm Maps of War http://www.mapsofwar.com/maps.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7380642.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/israel_and_palestinians/key_maps/ http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/israel.htm http://www.science.co.il/israel-map.asp http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_maps.php http://www.israelinsider.com/specials/index.htm http://www.zionism-israel.com/maps/Israel_Maps.htm http://www.christiansstandingwithisrael.com/maps_of_israel.html Migration project http://landofhope.wikispaces.com. Other projects Clean Watersheds - http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com Expedition Lit Trips - http://expeditionlittrips.wikispaces.com Land of Hope - http://landofhope.wikispaces.com Our Lost Children - http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com Poetry of Place - http://poetryofplace.wikispaces.com James Howard Kunstler is a very spirited critic of American sprawl. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html Ethnic conflict in Congo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTkWTb2-Jyc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsdDsmkZ2d4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXmxTJnKDM8 This is a 12-15 minute slide show on the events in Kosovo. It fits well with the Ethnicity and Political chapters. It especially goes well with Rubenstein Chapter 7. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071209_KOSOVO_FEATURE/index.html 1. If you want a good picture for von Thunen, try typing in milkman and India into a search engine and you will find pics of men on bikes or motorcycles bringing in milk which points out that that theory works in some developing countries. The dairy needs to be close to the city. Some of my students from India had some interesting stories to tell when they saw the pic. The source for the excellent Malawi article is: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/01/africa/02malawi.php "International Herald Tribune", 1 December 2007 www.worldmapper.org www.meatrix.com Agricutlure Maps 2002 - http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/atlas02/ 2007 - http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/index.asp United Streaming has a good supplement for this unit called History's Harvest The Economist – Fixing a Broken World – very cool map to start the article http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13035718 Twinkie vs. Apple http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/14/editorial-the-apple-vs-the-twinkie/ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1 ADM website (Agribusiness) at http://www.adm.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx http://www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org/ http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2170/Farm-Animals-FACTORY-FARMING.html http://www.animalhandling.org/ http://www.factoryfarm.org/ http://www.familyfarmer.org/sections/guest.html http://www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming/index-cf/en/ This site has climate maps and population density maps. http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/place/ Burger Tycoon � http://www.addictinggames.com/burgertycoon.html Smithfield Foods (pork products) has several videos on their site about pork processing and commercial hog farming. http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/media/audio.aspx Find some map games online to increase student knowledge of the world and where countries are located. o http://www.geography-map-games.com/ o http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm o http://www.maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine Rachel Maddow – Finding Bin Laden http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#29247369 Interview with Thomas Gillespie, a UCLA Professor of Geography who completed a study focused on finding Osama Bin Laden. Many geography principles are discussed, global, national, and local scale, distance decay, ethnic conflict, it goes on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIswcEMu7C8 "Islam in Southeast Asia" http://asiasociety.org/education/islam_in_seasia/index.htm NYT article - trend in developing countries AWAY from urbanization http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/world/asia/28asean.html?_r=1 Ruralization (account needed) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/03/04/AR2009030404221.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR This article was just in the NYTimes and also has a multimedia video/slideshow attached to it. This may help when discussing GDI and GEM. Afghan Women http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/world/asia/03shelter.html?ref=world The Big Mac Index http://www.economist.com/markets/bigmac/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index www.bigpicture.tv www.studystack.com http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_rubenstein_humangeo_8/ Different human development indicators http://www.paris21.org/betterworld/home.htm http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ Explanation of development Hans Rosling's TED lecture Article title: Preserving languages is about more than words http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/15/AR2009031501857.html "Mapping the Cultural Buzz," about contemporary cultural patterns in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07buzz.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=melena%20ryzik&st=cse Interesting story on NPR April 13th about the Punjab region. I thought it might be of use to someone in APHG land. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102944731 Frontline World has a great story streaming online called "Seeds of Suicide" about India's farmers and the Green Revolution. Microlending -A Little goes a long way in Uganda Room to Read, another great story about how one person formed an NGO that builds schools and libraries in LDC's The use of antibiotics in livestock. It would make a good intro to this aspect of agribusiness and intensive farming practices in general. http://fmstream.tamu.edu:8000/fm/AnimalInsights/042209.mp3 loss of jobs across the US http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/ Robert D. Kaplan, "The Revenge of Geography," FP (Foreign Policy), May-June 2009, is available online at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4862&print=1 There is a lesson on population, a lesson on cities, one on agriculture and many more. www.nationalgergraphic.com/earthpulse good videos on urbanization on ted talks From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061013-nobel-peace.html ^ This Nat Geo site has some great info. Pennies a Day from www.izzit.org. The video is great and it starts discussion. I have also used www.kiva.org to have students do a "lab" re: micro-loan financing. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html Sport Illustrated http://kycivics.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/from-bikinis-to-cartograms/ http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html Multimedia King Corn www.kingcorn.net To watch Brian Lamb's interview (it includes a few clips from the documentary) go tohttp://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1186 http://www.walktobeautiful.com/ 2001: A Space Odyssey Artificial Intelligence Abounda Human Rights & West Africa America Eats History Channel series to talk about culture and where we get some of our favorite Amistad Slavery An Inconvenient Truth Global Warming Banana Split - Canadian documentary that covers the history of the banana, which fits in with globalization, agriculture, trade. Kind of funny in a dopey sort of way. Black Book WW II & Netherlands Black-White...TV series on a white family becoming black (holywood make-up) and black family Blue in the Face Urban Geography & Community Bombon Unemployment & Argentina Central Station Urban Geography, Brazil & Human Rights Century issues as viewed from a geographical perspective. Expensive but very worth while. City of God Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy. Three DVDs. Use with the book. Constant Gardener Human Rights & Corruption Corn (from the History Channel, it might be part of the Modern Marvels series) - all about the uses of corn, mechnization of farming, specialization, trade - quite interesting. The Butchers is another one similar, but covers the meat industry. It is also a History Channel show. Downfall WW II Enemy of the State Privacy Estamos Aqui – video - http://www.teleduction.com/order/estamosind.htm Global Banquet, or The Future of Food - Goodbye Lenin - Political Geography & Place Guns, Germs and Steel - long (3 discs = 3 hours) but it is excellent as a review prior to the AP test, as it covers a lot of material from various units Guns, Germs and Steel. Two discs. Use with the book and the book Collapse also by Jared Diamond. Harvest of Fear" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/ Hotel Rwanda Ethnic Cleansing/Legacy of colonalism Rabbit Proof Fence Assimlation and Colonalism/Paternalism John Lennon vs USA immigration issues in USA SuperSize Me pop culture/uniform landscape Kite Runner cultural issues Sicko health care in USA Where in the World is Osama Bin Landen? – terrorism Human Trafficking Transnational Crime & Human Rights In This World Immigration & Human Rights iRobot Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Isle of Dogs A wonderful study of urban renewal Katyn WW II, Human Rights & Poland Le Haine Urban Geography & Immigration Life + Debt - a bit overdone and drawn out, but it covers the downside of globalization and specialization from the perspective of an LDC. It isn't subtle; rather it beats you over the head with a heavy dose of guilt tripitis. If you know that going in, there is some really good stuff here. Lord of War Transnational Crime & Human Rights Lost Boys of Sudan, or God Grew Tired of Us - About the Sudanese refugees trying to adapt to American culture. Both of these films cover the same general material, good for the cultural unit; past students still talk about these films. Might be the best things I show all year, as students can draw from all sorts of issues we cover in class. Matrix Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence Namesake Nose Iranian Style...documentary on the teen craze of noze jobs in Iran. (Culture) Osama...movie about the Telaban and 90's Afghanistan (culture/religion) Population explosion...short but good video on the growth of population (population) Radiant City – urbanization Shooting Dogs Human Rights & Political Geography Smoke Urban Geography & Community Sofie Scholl WW II, Human Rights & Germany Solider of Orange WW II & Netherlands The Battle of Algiers Political Geography & Human Rights The Future of Food The Meatrix...online video of the meat producing industry (agriculture) The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century (26 programs on multiple DVDs). A look at the The Story of English by McNeil that aired on PBS The weeping camel...movie of a Mongolian family with a problem with a mother camel (culture, folk The World According to Sesame Street DVD : great for the topic of culture Turtles Can Fly Human Rights Whalerider – used after language, religion, pop/folk culture Print Charlie Fuller’s study guide - The ISBN is 0-0470-05460-3 (supplement to DeBlij book) http://www.peoplescollegeprep.com/public/browsebooks.php?bookid=396 http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle/productCd-0470054603.html GIS LESSONS - Mapping our World and the level one version has lessons for AEJEE. A Thousand Splendid Suns/Kite Runner Amazon Stranger Mark Tidwell And the Band Played On Randy Shilts Bad Samaritans Ha-Joon Chang Balkan Ghosts Botany of Desire New Patterns: Process and Change in Human Geography Michael Pollard Carr Chaos Cod Coming of Age in the Milky Way Confucius Lives Next Door The Power of Place Diamond: A Journey into the Heart of an Obsession James Gleick Mark Kurlansky Timothy Ferris T.R. Reid de Blij Matthew Hart Dinner at the New Gene Caf� Bill Lambrecht End of Poverty Common Wealth Collapse Maximum City How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization King Leopold's Ghost Clash of Civilizations Every Drop for Sale Jeffrey Rothfeder Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Fateful Harvest Duff Wilson Freakonomics Steven Levitt Garbage Land Elizabeth Royte Ghost Map, which gives a vivid documentation of the spread of cholera in London Gideon�s Trumpet Anthony Lewis GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL Jared Diamond Hot, Flat and Crowded Earthshaking If it Bleeds, It Leads: Anatomy of Television News Matthew Kerbel In Defense of Food The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Levinson Live from the Battlefield Peter Arnett The Earth Machine" Mountains beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder Namesake Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich One River Wade Davis Our Final Hour Martin Rees Outcast United Warren St. John Prager's "The Oceans", Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Salt Mark Kurlansky Smith's "Environmental Hazards", Smith's "If the World Were a Village", Summerfield's "Global Geomorphology" The Geography of Nowhere The Hot Zone Richard Preston The Irish American The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas Friedman THE LONG WALK Slavomir Rawicz The Mole People Jennifer Toth The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia The Omnivores Dilema The Skeptical Environmentalist The Wealth and Poverty of Nations The World is Flat Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Difference Tunnel Kids Earth Democracy Lutz Kleveman We Just Want to Live Here Why Geography Matters Amal Rifa�i and Odelia Ainbinder Bjorn Lomborg Malcolm Gladwell Taylor Lawrence Vandana Shiva Roger Auch's Urban Growth in American Cities USGS 1252 http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/circ1252/ "The Four Traditions of Geography" by William D. Pattison http://www.ncge.org/publications/journal/classic/ http://employees.oneonta.edu/allenth/IntroductionGeography/THE%20FOUR%20TRADITIONS%20OF%20GEOGRAPHY.pdf http://www.gvsu.edu/forms/geography/Four%20Traditions%20of%20Geography.pdf Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, by Fred Pearce http://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Eco-Sinner-Travels-Where/dp/1905811101 Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus by Robert Kaplan http://www.newamerica.net/publications/books/eastward_to_tartary The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin http://books.google.com/books?id=btgwVOqe4xoC&dq=european+dream&printsec=frontcover&sou rce=bn&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result 3. Good agriculture article for a variety of reasons Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts By CELIA W. DUGGER The best article I have seen on recent population developments in Europe appeared in this month's issue of the Geographische Rundschau International� ( GRI� Vol 5 #2 2009) The Shape of the World: Explorations in Human Geography - Imagining the World by Doreen Massey Miscellaneous Material World and Hungry Planet posters John Borchert Boserup Ernest Burgess Urban Pop/Agr Rural Stages of Evolution of American Metropolis Boserup' Thesis Concentric Zone model Manuel Castells Walter Christaller Peter Hall Chauncey Harris Homer Hoyt August Losch Halford MacKinder Mahan Thomas Malthus Friedrich Ratzel E.G. Ravenstein WW Rostow Carl Sauer Nicholas Spykman E. L Ullman Warren Thompson J. H. von Thunen Immanuel Wallerstein Alfred Weber Alfred Wegener H. Carey Eco Urban Eco Urban Urban Eco Pol Pol Pop Pop Pol Pop Eco Eco Cult Pol Urban Pop Rural Eco Eco Nat Eco Nat Nat AP Human Geography Models & Theories 1. Demographic Transition Model 2. Gravity Model 3. Rostow’s Stages of Growth 4. Concentric Circle (Burgess) 5. Hoyt Sector Model 6. Multiple Nuclei Model 7. Central Place Theory (Christaller) 9. Von Thunen’s Agricultural Model 10. Epidemiologic Transition Model 11. Core Periphery Model 12. Domino Theory 13. Heartland and Rimland Theories 14. Neocolonialism 15. Thomas Malthus (Population) 16. Modernization & Dependency Theories 17. Sustainable Development 18. World Systems Theory 19. Bid-Rent Theory 20. Rank Size Rule Technopoles Central Place Theory Technopoles Multiple Nuclei Urban Sector Model Agglomeration/Spatial Influence Heartland Theory Sea Power Theory Malthusian Theory Neo-Malthsianism Organic theory of nations Laws of Migration Economic Development World Systems Model Cultural Landscapes Rimland Theory Multiple Nuclei Model Demographic Transition Model Agriculture Model Core-Periphery Model Location of Industry Theory/Least Cost/Agglomeration Plate Tectonic Theory Gravity Model Environmental Determinism Possiblism