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I’m teaching Geography again to English Language Learners, and though I’d pull together some accessible resources on the different kinds of map projections.

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Here are my picks – contribute your own in the comments section:

Your World Map is Hiding Something is a very useful interactive from Metrocosm which allows you – with a click of a button – to compare different kids of popular (and not-so-popular) world map projections.

Here’s a lesson plan from National Geographic.

This is a great video for Geography classes, BUT I wish the narrator didn’t talk so fast!

Misleading maps and problematic projections is from The Economist.

The Mercator Problem is a simple and useful site to help students learn about the distortions shown in a Mercator map projection.

Misconceptions:Some Common Geographic Mental Misplacements… is a good interactive.

 

Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection will show you, with a click of a button, the real size of countries compared to what it looks like on a Mercator map.

Open Culture posted about Shape of the World, an infographic that shares different ways the world has been visualized throughout history.

So simple and so powerful.

[OC] 10 map projections and how they distort the world, video 57s. from r/MapPorn

How Well Do You Know Mercator? is from Google Maps Mania.