Create GBM reads history and society through the conditions of terrain. It connects seeing, comparing, creating, and researching into inquiry-based learning that begins from place.
Create GBM is an educational platform that uses 3D terrain models (GBM: Geographic Base Material) to integrate geography and history and explore the relationship between terrain and human activity.
By layering terrain, hydrology, historic-site data, maps, and primary sources, Create GBM lets learners reason about why a particular place gave rise to a particular history, and how people have lived with that environment over time.
Create GBM provides the foundation for inquiry-based learning that reads history from place.
Create GBMとは、3D立体地形（GBM: Geographic Base Material）を用いて、地理と歴史を統合的に分析し、地形と人間活動の関係を探究するための教育プラットフォームである。
See terrain, form a question, connect it to evidence, and then make a 3D relief model by hand. Create GBM is designed so learners can move between these pathways according to the inquiry in front of them.
Relief is the very condition that shapes historical events. Create GBM is an entry point that uses 3D terrain to make the contemporary choices around movement, defence, and everyday life concrete.
Through interactive content such as the Coastline Time Machine and the Water Network, learners can re-live how a change in environmental conditions would have changed geography and human choice.
With the 3D white relief map editor, learners can layer hydrology, historic sites, infrastructure, and points of attention onto terrain, then make a physical model that reflects their own question. The act of making becomes part of thinking historically and geographically.
A curated link archive that crosses geography, history, and science so that the right resource is always within reach — from elementary school to research level.
Create GBM is a project started by the Hamada Hideki Lab. at Tamagawa University. It provides a range of contents based on the educational vision that learning history through 3D terrain can bring learners closer to the thoughts and values of people in a region.
It is an academic effort to develop inquiry-learning materials with the explicit purpose of fostering the ability to pose questions and to read geography together with history.
A record of how Create GBM has been built and improved — features, UI changes, and data updates.
See the changelog