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Curated Video
Let's Talk Geography: Maps & Globes
Let's Talk Geography: Maps & Globes helps students to understand and identify the different parts of maps and globes. Through colorful, animated maps children will learn about lines of longitude and latitude and how to locate different...
Curated Video
Discover the World: Locating Places
This program helps students to hone their map skills. Using colorful graphics and animation, students will come to understand the uses of map grids and the compass rose. In addition, viewers will learn how to locate any location on...
Makematic
Spatial Understanding and Perspective
Spatial understanding is our ability to know we you are in relation to other places. Someone’s own spatial understanding is called their perspective. These skills help us navigate the world around us.
Curated OER
Longitude and Latitude
Pinhead Patty takes us around the globe and explains what latitude and longitude are in this entertaining video. The author uses an orange to demonstrate the line measurements on a sphere.
Curated OER
Flat Maps and Globes
Flat maps and globes are described in this short video. Students share the differences between the two using helpful props and demonstrations.
TED-Ed
How Magellan Circumnavigated the Globe
Circumnavigate means to go around something completely, particularly the world. This is exactly what Ferdinand Magellan did in the late 1400s. Watch a video that explains the wonders and tough times of this magnificent journey.
PBS
Global Winds
Blow budding scientists away with a lesson that'll put wind in their sails! Scholars study the pattern of global winds using an interactive from PBS' Weather and Climate series. Detailed simulations help viewers study upper-level winds...
NASA
The Water Cycle: Following the Water
Water that leaves the oceans must eventually return. The animations in the final lesson of the four-part NASA series show the complex path water can take across landforms before returning to the ocean. Approximately one-third of the...
Orange County Water Atlas
Location, Location, Location…
Young geographers discover not only how to read and recognize coordinates on a map, but also gain a deeper understanding of latitude and longitude and how climate changes can vary significantly across latitudes.