GAMES TO HELP YOU BEEF UP YOUR GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE

It is quite amazing and sad that not many people are able to point out on a map where Mississippi or even Louisiana are at, so there is a cool website that links to many different geography games for all age groups to help you gain more knowledge about the world.

Here is the website:

http://unrgeog.wikispaces.com/Standards,+Lessons,+and+Games



This one is my favorite, it definitely is a challenge:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/geographyzone/



This is another one I really like:

http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#



Now that you have access to all kinds of different geography games there should be no more excuses for your geographic ignorance. :)

POLITICAL CARTOGRAPHY

Everyone is very aware politics is a touchy subject to chat about so instead of chatting about politics which could lead to a heated argument, why not create a political map to get your point across without throwing out insults or chairs for that matter. Here are a few examples from a website I used in a previous blog of politics mapped, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/:


This map represents the percentage of voters for Republican and Democrat using red, blue, and purple to show the variation.

















The map below shows the colors red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities on the county level.

















And here is a fun political map I got off the website http://www.aavc.vassar.edu/vq/spring2004/politics.html of the Republican elephant and the Democrat jackass.....I mean donkey going head to head. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!!!