Maps.Interlude: geography, maps and data at a glance

Maps.Interlude is a blog dedicated to maps, geography and data, offering a large collection of visual resources that can help us understand the world through maps. Its posts cover a remarkably wide range of topics, from European housing, employment and agriculture to migration, elections, energy, climate, inequality and tourism. Recent examples include maps showing average home sizes in the EU, the countries with the largest agricultural economies, the length of time people stay with the same employer, military expenditure in Europe, voting ages and wealth inequality.

This makes the website particularly useful for Geography and Social Sciences, but also for subjects such as Economics, History, Citizenship Education or Mathematics, where students can work with statistics, comparisons and geographical information.

For teachers, the blog can be used as a source of short, engaging prompts for classroom discussion. A map about voting age in Europe, for example, could lead students to compare electoral systems and discuss political participation; maps about migration could open a discussion about population movements and diversity; and data on employment, salaries or inequality could provide opportunities to analyse social and economic differences between European countries. Other maps, such as those dealing with climate, energy production or agriculture, can provide starting points for work on sustainability and the European Green Deal.

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