Spin the World for teachers

Curriculum connections

• Grade 6 Social Studies 6.1: present-day Eastern Hemisphere geography (climate, landform and water maps; regions).
• 6.2: the first humans through the Neolithic Revolution (migration, early farming).
• 6.3: early river valley civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere (ca. 3500 BCE – ca. 500 BCE): use the Time machine and the tours.
• Later Grade 6 units (classical civilizations, the Mediterranean world, interactions across the hemisphere): Time machine from 500 BCE to 1324.
• Earth science: tectonic plates, latitude and seasons, day and night.

Historical areas are approximate; river, mountain and plate lines are simplified.

Courses that go with it

Data credits

• Country outlines: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain), via the world-atlas 2.0.2 package (ISC license), prepared with topojson-client (ISC license).
• Spanish country names: i18n-iso-countries (MIT license).
• 3D globe: three.js (MIT license), served from this site.
• Rivers, mountain ranges, plate boundaries, capitals, routes and historical areas: drawn by the Goal100 Learning team from well-known positions; simplified or approximate.
• Country cards (capital, region, official languages, currency, neighbors): world-countries 5.1.0 by Mohammed Le Doze (Open Database License, ODbL 1.0). Flags: flag-icons 7.6.0 (MIT license). Both are served from this site.
• Space maps: NASA images (public domain, NASA-3D-Resources); the Moon map, Mercury, Uranus and the Sun are drawn by our code. Facts: NASA fact pages, named on each card.
• Day and night: worked out on your device from its clock (about one degree accurate).

Borders follow Natural Earth; some are disputed and are shown without taking sides.