Summary
Mundane Magnificence: Artifacts, Food, and Everyday Objects!! Get ready for this fast-paced and engaging session. Leave with ready-to-use strategies and resources for your K-12 Geography classroom. This session is designed to engage and challenge participants by exposing them to out-of-the-box teaching strategies for teaching both physical and human geography.
During this session, participants will learn how to use everyday materials to engage students and learn geography through a new lens by using artifacts. Through experiential activities, participants will learn how to engage not only the mind but also the senses while learning how food and geography go hand in hand. Participants will leave with actionable activities for their classroom.
Session Focus
All Grade Levels | Inquiry | Engaging, Strategies, Resources
Conference Room
Iowa
Meet the Presenters
Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies, Library, World Languages, Indigenous Education, and Financial Literacy for the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE). Prior to his time with KSDE, Nathan taught middle and high school social studies for 24 years. In the classroom, his students created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. These include three pieces of Kansas Legislation, an African American Civil War mural, and multiple National History Day and Lowell Milken for Unsung Heroes projects.
In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. Nathan has also been named a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Master Teacher Fellow, Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes, Fellow, and a George Washington Library, Lifeguard Teacher Fellow. He currently serves on the boards of several state and national organizations, including the Kansas Council for History Education, Council of State Social Studies Specialists, Council on Foreign Relations, and the iCivics National Educators Network.
Co-Presenter, Amy Walker
