Seal Web: Your Guide to Interactive Mapping in the Examination of our Mammal Friends Throughout Our Region
 

Gersmehl's Principles of Spatial Thinking

Three Parts to the Geographic Puzzle

  

TOPICS

Welcome

Geographic Principles  

Interactivity

Mapping

Community

Teaching Units

Standards

Get Involved

1. Location - Where is this place?

Text Description, Latitude Longitude, Coordinates, GPS time

a. Conditions (Site) - What is at this place?

b. Connections (Situation) - How is this place linked to other places?

2. Eight Aspects of Analysis

Comparison, Aura (Influence), Region, Hierarchy,
Transition, Analog, Pattern, and Association (Correlation)

3. The Effect of Time

Change, Movement, and Expansion or Contraction


With a Focus on a Topic (Seals) in a Region (NYC)

TOPIC SECTIONS

Geographic Principles.

1. Location.

2. Eight Aspects

3. Time Change

 

 

 

 

 

 
Copyright 2010, David Stolarz, Graduate Center of The City University of New York Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 08/12/2010, Supported by the National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows Program