Features

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Globe View

The above image explains our interface, but it also shows on of our four explore modes: Globe View. There are many ways to find, filter, and view information in Culture Atlas. To start find the bottom navigation bar, which displays a set of icons including the four views of our virtual planet.

While our three other planetary views (Map, Tours, and Places) feature more focused approaches, Globe View provides access to a wide range of geo-tagged resources, including videos, images, articles, websites, and more.

Digital world map titled "Welcome to Culture Atlas" with various circular icons around the globe representing different countries and regions, each containing images and text related to cultural topics like course curricula, data records, UNESCO sites, and app resources.
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Map View

Culture Atlas includes more than 8,000 coordinated maps, 2D historical geopolitical map files that have been converted into 3D objects that are geo-tagged to their appropriate position on our virtual globe. Our coordinated maps are tagged in turn to internal (our database) and external (web) resources.

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Tour View

A Tour is an interactive slideshow that guides users across our virtual globe as its narrative unfolds through images, videos, text, audio, maps, mini-lectures, and web resources. In building our three AP courses and the US History Survey we have created over 400 Tours covering all AP unit topics as well as AP-aligned Deep Dives.

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Place View

Map of the United States showing various icons and markers, including forests, historical sites, and areas with damage, with the Serpent Mound site labeled in Ohio.

Place view, the newest of our planetary views, provides access to five types of exploratory portals (historical sites, natural sites, battlefields, buildings/structures, and science-related sites). Unlike the other three planetary views, our Places appear as pins on the planet’s surface rather than floating icons. Our Places provide access to related digital resources (images, websites, videos, etc.). Over the next year we will be adding several hundred new Places.

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Library

Screenshot of an educational app's library section focused on American history. The interface includes a search bar at the top, app resources, and various modules about American history from colonial times to contemporary America. The modules contain numbered units with titles such as 'Peopling the Americas,' 'A Vast Pre-Columbian North America,' and 'Revolutionary Experiences.' Navigation buttons are at the bottom for tours, maps, globe, library, back, forward, search, bookmarks, settings, and share.

The Library, represented by the list icon in the bottom NavBar, is where you can access videos, maps, and other interactive features that bring the Culture Atlas to life.

The Library is organized into a complex of hierarchical bins that connect you with our current curricula and a diverse collection of digital resources.

TourMaker

TourMaker enables teachers, students, and other users to create their own Tours for academic and other settings by assembling pictures, videos, audio, and text related to their subject of study into geolocated narrative.

Spanish Language Resources

Culture Atlas offers EN-ES automatic translations across our textual offerings as well as Spanish translations of mini-lecture audio clips for all AP topic tours