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Erasable Marker board Globe
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Twelve segments fit together to make a complete globe.

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Classroom Lesson Plan Ideas:

1. Early Maps and Navigation -

Group 1:
    a. 1507 Waldseemuller's Map
        1. http://www.myloc.gov/Education/LessonPlans/Pages/lessonplans/world/index.aspx
    b. 1513 Piri Reis map
        1. http://pdfdatabase.com/index.php?q=piri+reis+map+poster
        2. http://images.rgs.org/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=31213
        3. http://www.raremaps.com/maptrade/feb02/msg00002.html
        4. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/pirireismap.htm
        5. http://www.exploreistanbul.com/category.aspx?CategoryID=31&ArticleID=65

Group 2:
    a. Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-89
        1. http://www.myloc.gov/Education/LessonPlans/ExhibitObjects/drake.aspx
    b. Captain James Cook
        1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/launch_ani_navigation.shtml

2. Circumnavigation -

Group 1:
    a. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/navigation.htm
    b. http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Mi-Oc/Navigation-at-Sea-History-of.html
    c. http://www.columbusnavigation.com
    d. http://www.celestialnavigation.net/history.html

Group 2:
    a. Drake's Circumnavigation
        1. http://www.drakenavigatorsguild.org/circumnavigation.html
        2. http://www.francisdrake.info/circumnavigation-of-the-globe.php
        3. Google Books
        4. http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/drake.html
        5. http://www.indrakeswake.co.uk/Education/drakeslife.htm
        6. http://www.drakenavigatorsguild.org/drakeslife.html

3. Currents -

    a. Ocean Current Maps
    b. http://www.oceanweather.com/data
    c. http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Raft.html
    d. http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/oceancurrents.htm

4. El Nino effect -

    a. EL NINO EFFECT,, SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography
        1. http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/elnino/whatis.html
        2. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/impacts.html
        3. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/09/el-nino-hurricanes.html
        4. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/elnino/mainpage.html
        5. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/home.rxml

5. Meridians and Parallels -

    a. http://www.mapthematics.com/Essentials/Essentials.html
    b. http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14070/css/14070_186.htm
    c. http://www.mp2kmag.com/gallery/?id=28
    d. Plotting the globe; stories of meridians, parallels, and the international date line.(Brief Article)(Book Review);
        1. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-142886378.html
        2. http://www.worldmapsonline.com/LESSON-PLANS/4-5-parallels-and-meridians-lesson-7.htm

6. Geometry Lessons using globe -

    a. Geometry of the Sphere
        1. http://math.rice.edu/~pcmi/sphere
    b. Great Circles
        1. http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m308-02b/projects/franco/index.htm
    c. History of Non Euclidian Geometry
        1. http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/non-euclidean geometry - history/id/1805346
    d. Browse College Higher-Dimensional Geometry
        1. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/college_3d.html
    e. Study of curved spaces
        1. http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/explore/metricspaces.html
    f. Definitions & prperties in spherical geometry
        1. http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/phma9904.htm
    g. Learning Geometry of the Globe
        1. http://www.nku.edu/~sheffield/watapbyd.html

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Miscellaneous Images:
globe-assembly-18in.jpg	140a-c_unique.jpg

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Flat Erasable Marker Boards:
europe-engrave.jpg
board_africa.jpg	board_antarctic.jpg	board_asia.jpg	board_australia_nz.jpg
board_chesapeake-bay.jpg	board_europe.jpg	board_north-west-passage.jpg	board_russia.jpg
board_south-america.jpg	board_usa.jpg
steamplate_africa.jpg	steamplate_antarctic.jpg	steamplate_chesapeak-bay.jpg	steamplate_europe.jpg
steamplate_north-west-passage.jpg	steamplate_russia.jpg	steamplate_south-america.jpg	steamplate_usa.jpg

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LINKS:
. A very cool new topic, that the Chinese sailed around world before Columbus was born. .	. GEOSummit is located at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet (72º N, 38º W) and provides unique opportunities for investigation of atmospheric processes. .
. The Seven Wonders of the World .

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Conferences:
. March 18-21, 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Table ) .	. October 21-24, 2010 Sacramento, California ( Table ) .
. December 14-18 San Francisco, California ( Table #639 ) .

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