Sunday, February 6, 2011

BBC Dimensions

BBC Dimensions  http://howbigreally.com/

Here is a neat visualization tool from BBC that allows you to show the size of a historical place or event in  a manner your viewers can recognize.  Te dimensions of the place are overlayed onto a Google map of your choosing.  Here Victorian London is overlayed over San Francisco.

Classroom ideas.  Currently there are 9 themes to choose. Students studying WWII can get an idea of the Battle of Stalingrad by placing the event in their own neighborhood.Stalingrad and surrounded German forces in 1942 as shown at…

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