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{{Navigate|Prev=Your desktop atlas with KGeography|Curr=The globe on your table with Marble|Next=Concluding remarks}}Marble is a digital atlas. It provides the physical geography of the Earth. It does not provide the political geography (with political borders dividing the continents into countries etc).

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{{font color|brown|Marble is a digital atlas. It provides the physical geography of the Earth, while KGeography provides the political geography (with political borders dividing the continents into countries etc) of the Earth.}}

 

=== Objectives ===

=== Objectives ===

# Understanding how the interactive environment of Marble, as a digital atlas

# Understanding how the interactive environment of Marble, as a digital atlas

# Playing with the features to explore and learn

# Playing with the features to explore and learn

==== Playing with the globe ====

=== Digital skills ===

# You can see the Earth as a 3-D model and explore different maps provided.  You can open the "Atlas" map to see the different continents and oceans. You can rotate the Earth to see the entire globe. You can simulate the rotation of the earth by moving the Globe from left (west) to right (east). You can use the mouse to increase the zoom to see a place in more detail. You can move the Atlas to see India and increase the zoom to see the cities and towns in Telangana. Pick up any country of your choice. Try to move the Atlas to locate that region (though you will not see the country name, you can locate the cities and towns, rivers and mountains of that region).

# Navigating an educational software application

# Exploring a digital atlas (globe), drilling down and up locations on the map, identifying locations on the map

=== Map analyses ===

=== Your learning outputs ===

# Try to see the maps provided in Chapter 1 of your class 8 Social Studies text book. You can see the world maps at different points of history in Marble.

# Geogebra files demonstrating your creations

# Screenshots of sketches you have created using Geogebra

==== Latitudes and Longitudes ====

=== Activities ===

# Increase the scale by moving the 'navigation slider' to increase the map size. See that latitudes are 'parallel' to one another.

# [[ICT student textbook/Playing with the globe|Playing with the globe]]

# Move the earth from west to east to simulate the rotation of the earth. Move the Earth 'top down' and 'bottom up' also upside down to show Arctic Circle in the bottom. Are 'north' and 'south' only conventions or are they 'up' and 'down'.

# [[ICT student textbook/Precipitation, weather and climate|Precipitation (rainfall), weather and climate]]

# [[ICT student textbook/Local weather and climate patterns|Local weather and climate patterns]]

 

==== Precipitation (rainfall), weather and climate ====

# You can see the 'Precipitation (July) map. Is there any pattern in the rain heavy zones? Does it depend on the Latitudes?

## While North India around tropic of cancer has good rainfall, why is the same tropic of cancer region in Africa without any rain at all? Tip - This is the Sahara desert region. Is the lack of rain the effect of it being a desert or is it vice versa?)

#See the 'Temperature (July) map.

##In the northern hemisphere, where is it the hottest? Why?

##Connect the ideas relating to weather and climate in Chapter 2 of your Class 8 Social Studies text book, on 'The temperature of Atmosphere'

 

#Mobile phones  have software application to record the latitude and longitude information of a place. The "OSM Tracker" app on a Android phone can record the 'latitude longitude' information about a place, and even record a track, such as a road. Try recording using this on a cell phone. You can also upload this information on a digital map on the Internet such as the [http://openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap]

 

Basically try and identify and discuss with your classmates and your teacher,  what are the various factor that affect weather/climate of a place. Which of these factors - latitude, vegetation/forest area, coastal region v/s hinterland (distance from sea/water body), altitude, land mass vs water body affect weather and climate of a region?

 

Discuss the weather and climate in your own location / region. What are the causes for the weather / climate patterns? 

You can [[Learn Marble]] and study the other maps provided and try and understand other geography concepts.

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