Thanks to the fine blog Instructify, I’ve learned about a pretty neat mapping tool called Show/World.
I’d encourage you to read Instructify’s post about it, but, basically, at Show/World you pick a topic (use of the death penalty, military forces, etc.) and then countries in a world map magically transform themselves into different sizes depending on their rank in that topic .
It’s very accessible to English Language Learners.
I’ve place the link on my Geography page.

April 2, 2009 at 1:57 pm
If you like SHOW World, you’ll love our new site, SHOW USA. We have hundreds of maps about the 50 states, with more to come:
http://show.mappingworlds.com/usa
We also have a new lesson plan for using both the World and USA sites in the classroom:
http://www.slideshare.net/SHOWmaps/show-lesson-plan-1142416
-Rick Hodges, Content Manager
rick@mappingworlds.com