Monday, October 4, 2010

Looking at other worlds

Free Technology for Teachers continues to be an amazing resources for Web 2.0 tools for teachers.  Take a look at the hyperlinked text below.

Show World is an interactive mapping website that takes demographic, economic, environmental, and political data sets and creates maps based on those data. This can be done with Google Earth and Google Maps before, but Show World is slightly different.

Click here to look at Show World.  (It does take a bit for the page to load). Click here to hang out at Free Technology for Teachers.

The maps at Show World could help students gain background knowledge before they read about a particular country or countries.

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