Friday, October 17

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – If You Give a Teen a Nuke…Geographic Scenario Gameplay in the Classroom – #5

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Nurturing Curiosity with Earth Observation Day Games – #39

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Geography: The Key to Our Global System of Agriculture – #37

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Teaching the Middle East and Global Migration Through Graphic Novels – 36

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM – A Workshop on the Geography Pipeline from High School to College – AAG Hosted – #AAG

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM – Teaching Holocaust Geographies – #43

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM – Beltrami on Expedition: Exploring Minnesota in 1823 in search of the Headwaters of the Mississippi River – #40

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Why Are There So Few Black Farmers in America? A Look At The History Of Racism In Rural Land Use – #19

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Mundane Magnificence: Artifacts, Food, and Everyday Objects in Geography! – 70

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Empowering Geo-Inquiry: How the Science of Reading Can Strengthen Secondary Student Participation – #57

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM – The Journey Begins: Building a State Atlas for Iowa – #75

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM – Globalizing the ‘Yellow Peril’ and Anti-Asian Racism with Human Rights Education – #55

Saturday, October 18 - 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 – Minnesota State University and the Founding of NCGE – #P1

Poster Session – Geographic Thinking in Interdisciplinary Research: Examining Conceptualization, Experience, and Comm – #P2

Poster Session – Drones in Geography Classrooms: Advantages and Challenges – #P3

Poster Session – Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region – #P4

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Field Mapping: Engaging Students by Collecting Data using Street Surveys – #22

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri1

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Mapping Majdanek: A Topographic Inquiry into the Bystanders of the Holocaust – #15

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Spiraling to help students interpret random internet “facts” – #50

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Publishing in NCGE Journals – #3

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Exploring Climate Change Through Play – #52

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri2

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Chicago Today: Effects of Redlining and Urban Renewal – #48

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Teaching About Taiwan: Crossroads of Culture and Empire – #47

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Enhancing Capabilities Through Racially Literate Curriculum Making – #46

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – World Regions: Revisited, Rename, Redrawn? – #42

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Teaching Physical Regions with Interactive Mapping – #60

9:00 PM – 9:45 AM – Insights, Tips and Results from a Teaching with Primary Sources Funded Grant – #25

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session n- # Esri3

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Geography Potpourri: “Tried and True” Lessons to DO Geography – #20

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Aspects of the Physical and Cultural Geography of Morocco – #11

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Teaching with Primary Sources: Analyzing the Holocaust through a Geographic Lens – #4

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Lightening Lessons for Transformative Learning – #28

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Experiential Learning in Geography – #64

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – (Sea) Lions, (Bengal) Tigers, & (Polar) Bears: Climate Vulnerability and our Changing Landscape b- #62

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri4

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Geo-Literacy for the Countries of the Americas – #49

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Beyond the Hype: Critical AI Literacy for Geography and Social Studies Educators – #77

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – The Fate of Research in Geography Education: A Look Back to Plan Forward – #74

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Harnessing AI to Enhance Language Acquisition and Content Mastery in the Geography Classroom – #41

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – People and their Environment: Human Geography Lessons for Young Learners – #53

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 – Minnesota State University and the Founding of NCGE – #P1

Poster Session – Geographic Thinking in Interdisciplinary Research: Examining Conceptualization, Experience, and Communication – #P2

Poster Session – Drones in Geography Classrooms: Advantages and Challenges – #P3

Poster Session – Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region – #P5

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri5

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Beyond the Map: Organizing a GIS-Focused Study Abroad Experience – #23

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Borchert Teacher Fellowship: Letting Teachers Loose in a Map Library – #14

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Box, Box, Box! Fostering pre-service elementary teachers’ geographic lens through global F1 and STEM – #13

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Localizing Global Challenges: A Case Study on constructing EcoBricks in Intro Geography courses – #12

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Exploring South Asia Through Literature: Using Award-Winning Books to Enrich Geography Education – #8

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Restricting the Mercator Map Projection Usage in Public School Classrooms – #2

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri6

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – How the Amazon Rainforest connects and supports your classroom curriculum and why it’s important to teach about it. – #80

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Promoting Critical Perspectives in a Geography Methods Course – #54

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Geography Teaching for the Future: Leveraging New Ideas – #6

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Place Representation and Music Geography: Australia and Midnight Oil – #66

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Food Geography – #56

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – The Chesapeake Bay Climate Institute: Integrating Climate Literacy into Curriculum – #38

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Omaha Redlining: How the hotel we are in divided Omaha – #18

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – How Do We Define Regions? – #31

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – The Student Atlas of Nebraska – Ten Years in Practice – #29

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Opportunities in Non-Formal Education to Enhance Girls’ Motivation Toward Learning Geography, Geospatial Technologies, and Related Careers – #D1

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Exploring the Complex Geography of the Balkans – #27

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri7

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Mapping the African American Green Book – #71

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Inquiry into Persecution, Scale, and Spatial Change with Holocaust Survivor Testimonies – #10

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – The geography of the Holocaust: Topics, geographical concepts, methods, and representation – #9

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Engaging local history through data literacy, storytelling, and digital scholarship – #34

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Citizenship, Identity, and Othering in the Nazi Camp System – #16

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Case Studies and World Geography – #65

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM – Esri Bring Your Own Device Lab Session – #Esri7

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Sovereignty, Territoriality, and the Zangezur Corridor – #59

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – When to Teach “Introductory” GIS? Evaluating Course Sequencing Across Institutions – #32

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Pecans: The All-American Nut – #17

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Exploring South Asia Through Literature: Using Award-Winning Books to Enrich Geography Education – #8

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Mapping the Geographical Theme of Movement on the GeoHistoGram – #51

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