This is a collection of blank maps that I made based on Visualize World Geography. I translated each of the pictographies into solid colors. To quote Cathy Duffy Reviews: “Visualize World Geography makes it easier for some students to learn geography through mnemonics presented through videos—visual images that help students make connections to the names of the countries. Because of the visual nature of the course, you can use it even with children who are not yet able to read independently…Visualize World Geography uses images or ‘pictographies’ that include one or more neighboring countries. For example, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia are grouped together to make an image of a chili pepper. The program presents the mnemonic, explaining that the country of Chile is an orange strip running down one side of the chili pepper. It continues, ‘Argentina is the red, fleshy part of our Chili Pepper. Ardent Tina lives in Argentina. The word ‘ardent’ means passionate; Tina is sure passionate about peppers! That is why Tina is known as ‘ardent’ Tina—because of her passion for chili peppers!” Bolivia, sitting at the top of both countries, is depicted as the leaves of the chili pepper: “When Tina plucks the leaves off the peppers so she can cook them, she places all the leaves in a bowl. It is the bowl of leaves we call Bowl-leaf-ia (Bolivia).” There are two areas of the world that I have not found the entire lesson sets of: the Americas and Europe. To see them, see inside this project. Unfortunately, VWG didn’t cover the following 32 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cyprus, Dominica, East Timor, Fiji, Grenada, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Palestine, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vatican City. (I know that these countries exist.) I wish there was a spinoff to cover those nations. Maybe it could be called “Visualize World Geography+” or “Visualize World Geography Extra”.
Credit to amCharts, Cathy Duffy Reviews, MsAli Tutoring (for the videos) and Tender Heart Press (the creator of Visualize World Geography.) Where I got the colors from: Americas: https://youtu.be/t5o3PZkupDI?si=O2dkzuM113H5sNut, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsW6ilkVxs0pUqStxHKEYb8-Ni5Df4vhA&si=J9L1Fxw8_AGUA5Su Africa: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsW6ilkVxs0rffD0RxLY6u9auuiH0tILa&si=W3GIhT2wayWpP4Q5 Europe: https://youtu.be/FtTFvYGaFeQ?si=n3IHBRPxyZC77sgv, https://youtu.be/KxGSoX-YeLA?si=4pY8YmD8eQsrBWXa Asia: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsW6ilkVxs0oC-PGR3tIBYtFI3MD6HrZ3&si=-smSoXU5_HhoqDln Oceania: https://youtu.be/_5iLR5gwVI0?si=w9WtQ08FNa7a3aK-
