Get to know your world with Culture Atlas
Welcome
Culture Atlas is an online learning environment and immersive journey through world cultures. We have reimagined the globe as an educational interface tailored to the needs of teachers and students. We believe that curiosity and wonder motivate students of all ages, and the best way to learn is to explore.
While our app is an evolving database of over 250,000 digital assets (interactive maps, articles, multimedia tours, videos, and more), we know that we’re just getting started—welcome aboard!
Culture Atlas Interface / 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 to access our content.
The Welcome slide on the right shows the app in Globe View but our virtual globe can also be viewed in Map View or Tour View with related focused effects.
The pictures, text, and videos below provide more detail on the interface and structure of Culture Atlas.
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.
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.
Tourmaker
Tourmaker allows students and other users to create tours for their classrooms and other venues by assembling pictures, videos, audio, and text related to their subject of study into a narrative and geolocated format.
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.
Library
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.