Learn Marble

Introduction

ICT Competency

Subject (Geography) resource creation.

Educational application and relevance

Atlas is an essential resource for a Geography teacher. An atlas is required to learn political geography as well as physical geography. Marble is a digital atlas. It can be used to understand and analyse map information of the Earth. Lessons can be created using different maps from Marble to understand certain concepts in geography.

Version

Marble Virtual Globe Version 1.8.3 (stable release) (Marble is also available on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems)

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements

Overview of Features

Marble is an virtual atlas, it has many digital maps of the Earth. These maps provide information about physical geography of the Earth, including topography, rainfall, climate etc. It also has ‘historical’ maps which give the information about the Earth at various points in time in the past, relating to political regimes at that time

Other similar applications

Other free digital atlas applications include K Geography Non free digital atlas includes https://www.google.com/earth (Google), Bhuvan http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan_links.php (ISRO).

Working with the application

Functionalities

1. Please label images as Step 1
2. Please add 500px

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Step I On the left side you will see many maps one below the other. Selecting any of them, will open it fully on the right side. You can use your mouse to move the Earth in all ways – top to bottom and bottom to top, right to left and left to right. You can click on the map at any place to expand it – this is ‘drilling down’ the map. You can also use the scale bar at the right to increase/reduce the map size and change its orientation.	Step II Open the “Temperature July” map. You can study the temperature patterns across the Earth during July on this map. Colour conventions have been used to suggest the temperature during this month. Open each of the maps available in the application.
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Saving the file

Marble does not have its own file format, which you can create, edit and save. However you can export images of the maps you are working on. See ‘export and publishing files’ section

Export and publishing files

You can create an image file from Marble through the File – Export option.

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Steps
From Terminal	Steps
From the web	Steps
Web based registration	Steps

How to use template

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