The Classroom Bookshelf
Maps
SCROLL DOWN TO READ POSTS
Related Articles on SLJ
Trending on the SLJ Blog Network
Maps POSTS
Meograph launches its 4-D storytelling platform
There’s a new digital storytelling kid in town. And this one is just right for telling stories focused on time and place. Meograph officially launched yesterday. Kind of like a Google Earth tour, this free platform makes it easy for students to tell media-rich stories combining maps, timeline, links, audio and video–to tell stories in […]
Map of Life launches its demo
Thanks to Gary Price of LJ’s infoDOCKET I am exploring the first demonstration release of the Map of Life Project. The project’s ambitious goal is to show the global distribution of all plants and animals. Share this with teachers of science and geography! Map of Life will allow users to see several levels of detail […]
History Animated
If, like me, you have a few students and teachers who fancy themselves fill-in-the-blank war buffs, if the Civil War, World War II, and the Revolutionary War are part of your curriculum, you’re going to want to share HistoryAnimated. The site brings to life those dashed and dotted line maps to depict key naval and […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Mapping America: a NYT and Census Mashup!
Holy infographics! As someone who remembers messing around with those huge Statistical Abstracts volumes and later the PDFs available by our Census Bureau, I am blown away with the easy data display possibilities presented by the New York Times’ research tool, Mapping America! Students and teachers can now access and manipulate local Census data, based […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Archives
ADVERTISEMENT