Bowie World Geography

While sort of basic, this was helpful for my visual learners and students still not grasping what Climate Change can look like. Click on the four different themes (increasing temp, rising sea level what ifs, etc.).

I would not show the entire "documentary" but the small clips of what would happen if .... are interesting to the freshmen....Six degrees of global warming could mean a global wipe-out.

My Kids had a LOT of questions about this....Check this one out...Long-term weather forecasters say it is now unlikely that a strong El Niño will develop this fall, dimming hopes in California for heavy rains that might bring relief from a severe drought.

Interactive map allows you to see what effect rising seas will have on your country.

Click on the "EARTH" icon and choose various options. It is Trippy!!!! An animated map of global wind and weather. Visit the community at https://www.facebook.com/EarthWindMap

This is really cool.

Check this one out!!! I will post the World one too.

What do the climate experts say? How do scientists know the climate is changing? Climatica provides scientifically accurate information from the experts.

Awesome! I am assigning the Climate Change Project to the students and this would be good for them to use.

Collection of USA Climographs

Hey, NOAA has a large collection of fact sheets and articles here. Good for PreAP.

It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done. What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5km high. The reason they have gone unrecognised until now is because they are at the bottom of the ocean.

CCTV camera footage of Japanese tsunami, funny if it wasn't so tragic.

Hey, some of us have been mentioning this event in class; I know a lot of my students have been asking questions. Here are some related to it.

This is great, John. Thanks for sharing.

This is Hans Rosling's website with lots of cool visuals, videos, etc. for teaching population.

I love Gapminder! Great stuff. This video is funny for the kids. Great visualizations.

Hans Rosling's Ignorance Survey. Information about what global population actually looks like.

Bill Nye sea floor spreading clip.

This visualization displays the total number of earthquakes Japan experienced in 2011 including the massive 9.0 that led to the tsunami.

The music is great too. Dramatic.

BBC News looks at how time zones affect all of our lives. Cool little link about time zones. Click "Continue" then scroll down to see the scroll bar. There are various clips about important time zones.

I plan to show this one to the WG/PreAPWG students soon as part of the early discussion of over-generalizing/stereotypes which I find is something common with many students - especially the freshmen. It is a great TED talk.