Friday, October 16

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – 250 Years of American Growth: Hands-on Explorations of U.S. Human Geography and History – #23

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Infusing Geography into Genealogy: Creating a Family Geography – #15

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Mental Maps & The Holocaust: Teaching Facts and Perspective Using Geo-Literacy Skills – #28

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Death Valley Daze – #48

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Kickin’ It Old School with Hands-on Learning tools – #25

1:45 PM – 2:15 PM – Count Me In! Using Labs to Teach Population Geography – #21

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – From Trends to Teaching: Navigating Tensions and Charting a Future for Geography Education Research – #5

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM – International Efforts to Improve Geography Teaching and Learning – #46

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM – The Geospatial Semester at 22: Tales from the Field – #47

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Art, Dance, Theatre, Oh My! Using Arts-Methodologies in the Geography Classroom – #14

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM – Stories of the Chesapeake – #33

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Myth, Trolls, and Tectonics: Using Storytelling to Teach Physical Geography – #26

4:15 PM – 4:45 PM – How Students Can Apply “The Ten Steps of Walkability” to Evaluate Any Downtown – #13

4:15 PM – 4:45 PM – Resources for Teaching Political Geography – #38

Saturday, October 17 - Morning Sessions

All poster session presenters will be available to discuss their work and findings during the 15-minute workshop/session breaks throughout the day.

Poster Session – Using Extracurricular Programs to Further Geographic Education – #P1

Poster Session – Assessing the landscape of introductory undergraduate courses in the U.S. – #P2

Poster Session – Revolutionary Crossroads – #P3

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – Designing Flexible Learning Pathways: Implementing BLPL in a World Geography Classroom – #56

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – The Geospatial Zone – Esri Lab

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – Teaching Teachers to ‘See’ Place: Integrating Geospatial Technology to Transform Elementary Teacher – #6

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – Beyond the Textbook…Beyond the Exam: Bridging AP Human Geography Students to Geographic Practice – #44

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – Map your World: Empowering Students with OpenStreetMap- #30

8:25 AM – 8:55 AM – Mapping the Professional Fall Line: A Grades 4-12 Geospatial Careers & GIS Curriculum – #20

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – Learning Along the Fall Line: Building an OER State Atlas for All Learners – #41

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – The Geospatial Zone – Getting Started with MapMaker

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – Mapping Learning: Using Survey123 to Create Student-Generated Content Across Disciplines – #10

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – Crossing the Conceptual Fall Line: Scaffolding AP Human Geography FRQs – #57

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – What’s in a Name? ​Exploring Place Names as Forms of Social and Geographic Storytelling – WL-1

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM – The Unruly Rio Grande: How A Meandering River Re-shaped the US-Mexico Line – #51

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – The Geospatial Zone – Intro to StoryMaps

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – Redistricting Education Amidst the “Gerrymandering Wars

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – Reawakening the Stealth Geography Approach in a Persistent Battleground: Elementary Education – #24

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – Places of Service and Sacrifice: Teaching Through National Cemeteries- #50

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – From Maps to Mandates: Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Primary Sources- #53

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM – Yippy-Ki-Yay, Morphin’ Culture!: Teaching Holiday Traditions and Cultural Change Using Die Hard – #37

Saturday, October 18th - Afternoon Sessions

All poster session presenters will be available to discuss their work and findings during the 15-minute workshop/session breaks throughout the day.

Poster Session – Using Extracurricular Programs to Further Geographic Education – #P1

Poster Session – Assessing the landscape of introductory undergraduate courses in the U.S. – #P2

Poster Session – Revolutionary Crossroads – #P3

2:15 PM – 2:55 PM – The Geospatial Zone – Teaching and Learning with Storymaps – #2

2:15 PM – 2:55 PM – Cultivating Civic Stewardship Through StoryMaps: Narrative Mapping of Coastal Displacement – #40

2:15 PM – 2:55 PM – Demography 101: Understanding Population Trends through Hands-on Activities – #22

2:15 PM – 2:55 PM – Environmental Cooperation: Forging a Peaceful Path in the Middle East – #54

3:10 PM – 3:50 PM – The Geospatial Zone – Mapping Meaning: Student-Led Geospatial Stories in Environmental Literacy – #34

3:10 PM – 3:50 PM – An Ecocentric Approach to Teaching Geography – #18

3:10 PM – 3:50 PM – Beyond the Map: Building “Geography Trunks” with Children’s Literature for Adolescent Inquiry – #39

3:10 PM – 3:50 PM – Place-Naming in Virginia: From early European settlement to the 21st century – #42

3:10 PM – 3:50 PM – Using AI to promote critical thinking inside and outside the classroom – #29

3:10 PM – 4:45 PM – Teaching Geography with Purpose: Strategies, Resources, and Real Classroom Insights

4:05 PM – 4:45 PM – Traversing India’s and Nepal’s historical religious geography – #49

4:05 PM – 4:45 PM – From Plate Tectonics to Trade Routes: Geography Across Big History – #31

4:05 PM – 4:45 PM – The “Rest of the Story”: Geographic Insights on the 1918 Spanish Flu – #9

4:05 PM – 4:45 PM – Contours of Geography Education in the United States: Results from a National Survey of Teachers – #7

4:05 PM – 4:45 PM – The Geospatial Zone – State GIS Clearinghouses as resources for education

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM – GeoExplorer & 4-H Leadership Team Plenary

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Enhancing Geographic Consciousness with Curriculum Artifacts and Vignettes- #1

5:00 PM – 5:40 PM – The Making of “My Maryland”: An Interactive State Atlas for Educators- #11

5:00 PM – 5:40 PM – Reading the Ocean: Mapping, Memory and Power in Samoa – #43

5:00 PM – 5:40 PM – Publishing in NCGE Journals – #WL-3

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