Getting Started in StoryMaps in APHG
(APH-500)
Unit 1
Thinking Geographically
Topic: Site/situation, basic info about establishment of the community
Skills: Basic - Text using different styles, sizes, colors of text
Add information about the site and situation of your hometown
This is a sample of my text.
This is my second idea.
Here is more about my narrative.
Unit 2
Population and Migration
Topic: Population Dynamics
Skills: Basic - Add a quote; Media - Add an image using a link
Type your narrative in response to the journal instructions for the Hans Rosling video: “DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling Showing the Facts About Population”
Feel free to practice any of the text options that you used in Journal 1, as you write Journal 2.
Remember to add a quote and its source. Quotes are either italicized or put in quotation marks. The preference is italicize, especially if a longer quote and set apart, as it is in StoryMaps.
There are 2 examples below, depending on how you indicate your source and showing how to indicate it is a quote. Remember to add the full citation source at the bottom of the Journal webpage.
AP Human Geography asks students to not just dabble in geographic skills but immerse themselves in rigorous thought, data, sources, and scale analysis, as well as spatial relationships. As Murphy and Hare noted in "The Nature of Geography and Its Perspectives in AP Human Geography" (2016)
We should be treating it as an opportunity to advance understanding of what it means to think geographically . . if students are to emerge from their studies with the conceptual tools and habits of mind that are needed to make sense of the forces reshaping life on Earth. (Murphy)
"We should be treating it as an opportunity to advance understanding of what it means to think geographically . . . if students are too emerge from their students with the conceptual tools and habits of mind that are needed to make sense of the forces reshaping life on Earth." (Murphy)
Remember to add an image:
This map of current trends in migration. (Source: World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/how-migration-is-changing-world-cities-charts/)
Unit 3
Cultural Patterns and Processes
Topic: Diffusion of Religion and Language
Skills: Media - 2 ways of adding a video to your journal
Basic -->The Button
You can add a button that will open the video in YouTube or other Internet video source. The button allows you to add any hyperlink - video, article, image, anything with an URL. It takes the reader out to that site. An issue with this is you are limited to the number of letters you can put on the button. A downside is that readers leave the StoryMap site, which may not be what you want.
Media --> Video:
Using media, you can directly embed the video into your Journal. It plays from the Journal, rather than going out to another site, as when you use the button to hyperlink too something. Notice that the title of the video is added below it.
If you hover over the video, will will get different options for showing the video: size, placement of the window, etc.
Source: "Why Did English Become the International Language?"
Unit 4
Political Patterns and Processes
Narrative - Add text to respond to the questions in the Journal 4 Overview
Topic: The Function of Political Boundaries
Skill: Media - Add a swipe (using images)
The middle line with two arrows can be used to swipe across the two maps to compare the 2016 Schenger Area/Borders to 2020 changes.
Add additional text to compare the information contained in the two maps in the Swipe Map above.
BONUS: Add an Image Gallery (4 images = 1 point)
Blue road signs with gold stars indicates that a country is part of the Schengen Area. Some regions are not part of the Schengen and are designated as such. Crossing Schengen borders is as easy as driving through a toll booth. Citizens are issued Visas (VISUM), allowing them to cross the borders easily.
Unit 5
Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Topics: Agricultural Production Regions
Skill: Immersive - Map Tour
Watch the video "King Corn." I decided to add three images that show three stages of growing and harvesting corn in Iowa. So even though the location technically is the same, I altered the map by zooming in, so there were different maps each time.
As I selected images, I also collected information for the Works Cited.
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Fertilizing in Spring
To provide proper nourishment to the young corn plants, fertilizer is added.
2
Tassel Count in Mid-Summer
Drones are used to do a tassel count, providing a prediction of yield.
3
Harvesting Corn in Fall
The fields look barren after the corn is harvested. No till is the preferred method, leaving roots and short stalks in the ground to prevent wind and run-off erosion during the winter months.
Unit 6
Urban Patterns and Processes
Topic: The Internal Structure of Cities
Skill: Immersive Media - Slide Show
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security. ~Li Keqiang
For this week's journal, you will add a slide show. This will seem very similar to adding a map tour. The major difference is that you are adding photographs - and not showing where they are located. And rather than the images/text/map scrolling downward, the slide show will have arrows at either end to scroll horizontally.
Unit 7
Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes
Topic: Trade and the World Economy
Skill: Media - Express Map
After watching "Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt," students create an Express Map about locations that show the economic process.
