Welcome back for another year of TheTeacherList.ca — the 18th year, that is! Let’s start off with this suggestion from List Member, Joan McNeil, who told me about WunderMap. She thought the site is pretty cool with the layers that you can select to overlay data to your map. You can access weather information, webcams and more. There’s a Trip Calculator that has some possibilities too.
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The URL: http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/
Time to come up for some air! It’s been a while since I last posted, so let’s start with one that my brother, Brian, sent me last week. This interactive, created by Áero Legends, is a panoramic photograph of an RAF Spitfire cockpit. Hovering a mouse over the different elements will offer information and Brian points out that there are bonus points if you can figure out how to turn it on.
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The URL: https://www.haraldjoergens.com/panoramas/spitfire-td314/files/
With the 70 year anniversary tomorrow for the D-Day Invasion, I remembered this interactive that gives students a visual and audio journey through the event. Students are directed to click and drag around while hot-spots appear to provide video re-enactments and interviews with survivors.
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The URL: http://www.stormingjuno.com/#/intro
I heard from Lara Lavelle a couple of weeks ago. She’s the Interpretive Planning Assistant for the project, Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum in Ottawa. She had information on an exciting new project that teaches students about the Cold War Era. Lara goes on to say, “We are excited to announce the recent completion of My Project
Berlin, which makes original, curriculum-relevant lesson plans and projects available online and free of charge to teachers across the country.” The projects will provide teachers with the option to have their students’ work featured in an upcoming exhibit at the museum, and connect with other classes from across the country via Twitter and other online media.
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The URL: http://diefenbunker.ca/my-project-berlin/
My pal, Des King, shared this with me the other day. It’s one of the better examples of a mashup that I’ve seen lately – the flow of images matches the percussion of the soundtrack perfectly and the content covers a broad range of planetary history.
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The URL: http://marcbrecy.perso.neuf.fr/history.html
I plucked this from a post by my pal, Bill Lomax. While I wouldn’t share all of this content with younger students, there are some gems in here that will help put a few things in perspective. For example, the first one shows where Google Street View is available. There are others that show the density and distribution of the globe’s population in different ways and I thought the one showing Antarctic time zones was something I hadn’t thought about before.
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The URL: http://asheepnomore.net/2013/12/29/40-maps-will-help-make-sense-world/