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Dvila MEDT 7474 Fall 2013 Geographical Sources Reference Logs

World Map, Online Maps, Satellite Maps - National Geographic. (2013). Retrieved from http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas.
"MapMachine" link by National Geographic has satellite, street maps and more in an online atlas. "Atlas Explorer" has Geopolitical, Geophysical, and Human Footprint online atlases of the seven continents plus the United States separately, and the five oceans "National Geographic's Print Collection" is quite well-made. "Enhance your

classroom with National Geographic's education wall maps, specifically designed for grades K-12. These unique educational maps utilize the Winkel-Triple projection, which provides the optimal combination of size, shape, and distance to give the student the best visual representation of the Earth's surface. National Geographic has the Political World and U.S. Education Maps for grades 4-12, Physical World and U.S. Education Maps for grades 6-12, and even Beginner's World and U.S. Education Maps for grades K-3. National Geographic education maps are a new series of maps specifically for kids and their understanding of our world." National Geographic "Atlas Puzzles" allow users to time themselves and/or challenge their friends to solve these Atlas map jigsaw puzzles. The Maps Home link allows for 2D, 3D, Aerial, Bird's Eye, and Labels. This would be especially useful for teachers in creating or presenting lessons. As well, students could use this program for class research assignments or multimedia presentations. Grades: K-adult. Subject(s): Geography. Overall rating: 10.

Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. (2013). Retrieved from

http://school.eb.com.proxygsu-k12d.galileo.usg.edu/levels/middle/browse/atlas. This World Atlas section of Britannica School Middle database can be accessed on a tablet, Smartphone, laptop, desktop computer, or any Internet-connected device with a Web browser. "Made for todays digital classroom, with extensive, up-to-date information sources, Britannica School is specially designed for differentiated instruction, allowing students to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed. Its made to display well on any device, which is especially beneficial for todays BYOD movementbring your own device to school. The content of Britannia School is reliable, age-appropriate, updated continuously and closely correlated to all curriculum standards, including the new Common Core State Standards, for which it provides a multitude of suitable texts in all subjects. A recent winner of the prestigious Golden Lamp Award." The World Atlas has a map view or satellite view. Zooming options allow for viewing neighborhoods, streets, and individual houses. I found my old address from overseas within seconds! I can see how this interactive option would allow students to learn geography in a fun way. Cobb County School District has this database and it is used quite often by students and teachers for geographical sources of information. Britannica always seems to impress! Grades: 6th-8th. Subject(s): Geography. Overall rating: 10.

PebbleGo | Capstone Digital. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.pebblego.com/content/socialstudies/pgo_player.php.

This database is part of Cobb County School District's Digital Library of resources. After logging into MackinVia, county employees can use this valuable geographic resource. "PebbleGo, the award winning PreK-3 database for reading and research, includes database options for Animals, Earth and Space, and Biographies. All have the built in reading and research tools made popular with PebbleGo Animals. Leveled text, educational games, and videos support science concepts for your youngest researchers. Any number of students can access the database at the same time, making PebbleGo your universal resource. Capture the interest of your emergent readers and researchers while helping them learn database and reading skills using the database designed for them." The "Social Studies" tab includes "Maps" as one of the links. Within "Maps" there are eleven links for preschool-3rd grade with the following titles: "What is a Map?", "Map Symbols", "Map Scales", "Map Directions", "Distribution Maps", "Globes", "Physical Maps", "Political Maps", "Road Maps", "Topographic Maps", and "The World on Maps". The Teacher Resources link at the bottom of the screen includes a map crossword as well. I especially liked the audio function for ELLs and those with hard of hearing. The colorful and easy-to-use format of this database is excellent. Grades: PreK-3rd. Subject(s): Social Studies (geography) Overall rating: 10.

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.columbiagazetteer.org. The definition of the term Gazetteer, when used in a geographical sense, is a "geographical index or dictionary." When used in atlases or map indexes, gazetteers are simply assemblages of alphabetically ordered listings of places or physical/cultural features. More extensive gazetteers include brief descriptions along with the listings. The comprehensive gazetteer, however, is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features. The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is such an encyclopedia.

In the decade since publication of the 1998 print edition of The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, globalization, technological advances, capital flows, and migrations of peoples have made profound impacts on many parts of the world. Along with updating of population data, the restructuring of political units within countries, devastation caused by wars, and the alteration of landscape through natural processes and human activities are reflected in this revised and expanded edition of the Gazetteer.

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Physical features Natural disasters Transportation advances City development Military bases Technology Conflicts and Peace

The entries include information on many of the following: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Their length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region.

The following entry categories indicate the scope, coverage and sheer amount of information contained in the Gazetteer:

The political world--major geographic regions, counties, provinces, regions, states, districts, capitals, cities, town, villages, neighborhoods, special districts.

The physical world--continents, oceans, seas, gulfs, lakes, lagoons, rivers, bays, inlets, channels, streams, islands, archipelagos, peninsulas, atolls, mountains, mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, valleys, glaciers, volcanoes.

Special places--national parks, reserves and monuments, historic and archeological sites, resorts, airports, ports, dams, nuclear plants, mines, canals, shopping malls, theme parks, stadia, military bases, fortified lines, mythic places.

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World serves also as a unique guide to the ways in which names offer insight into the political, cultural, religious, and aesthetic meanings that people ascribe to particular environments, and in which the values of places change. The dynamism of the world system since World War II is graphically illustrated by changed names for both renewed and pre-existing places. This makes it up-to-date for student research projects. Grades: 6th- adults. Subject(s): Social Studies. Overall rating: 10.

Library of Congress Panoramic Maps Collection. (2007). Retrieved from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html. Historical maps and landscapes can be used to identify landmarks from earlier centuries. The LOC's site shown below is a cartographic reference including resources from the 19th and early 20th century. The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. The majority of items presented here are documented in PANORAMIC MAPS of Cities in the United States and Canada, second edition (1984), by John R. Hbert and Patrick E. Dempsey. Hbert and Dempsey compiled a checklist of 1,726 panoramic maps of U.S. and Canadian cities, the bulk of which were done by Albert Ruger, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, Lucien R. Burleigh, Henry Wellge, and Oakley H. Bailey who prepared more than fifty-five percent of the panoramic maps in the Library of Congress. Additional panoramic maps will be added to this presentation as they are acquired by the Geography & Map Division. Users can search by keyword or browse by Geographic Location including U.S. States, Canadian Provinces, and other Geographic Features such as water body, mountain, county, city, or battlefield. A Subject Index of 54 A-Z topics are listed for the state or geographic features that they represent. There are 12 names/organizations listed under the Creator Index: A. Hoen & Co., Corbin, C.J., Courier Lith. Co., Hafften, C., Hageboeck, August, Mallory, Richard P., Mark, John G., Rascher, Charles, Rau, Woldemar, 1827-1889, lithographer, Warner, Jos, Webster & Hunter, and Wynne, James. The Title Index lists 30 entries from A-Z as well. I can imagine a high school research assignment on the Civil War of which the students reviewed maps of the Union and Confederate battlefields. The maps would allow the students to see the changes that took place from then until now, as more roads were built, more industry and real estate arose with the increased population. These historical era(s) are best represented in the collection although they may not be all-encompassing.

Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861 The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877 Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915 Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930

Related Collections and Exhibits These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web site.

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 California as I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900

Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, 1897-1916 Life of a City: New York, 1898-1906 Collections with Maps The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1906 Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca.1820-1910 Panoramic Photographs Detroit Publishing Company

Grades: 6th - Adult. Subject(s): Social Studies. Overall rating: 9.