Lessons Learned from Creating a Local Atlas

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The “Space Time Continuum”: GeoHistoGram Style

Mission Palms Conference Room: San Pedro 60 E 5th St., Tempe

Overview Timelines provide students with a look at chronology. Maps allow students to observe spatial information. The GeoHistoGram provides educators with a resource that puts spatial information and chronological information all in one place for students. In this session, participants will experience the GeoHistoGram, completing several different classroom activities utilizing the GeoHistoGram in different ways. […]

Double Displacement: Unlikely Intersection of Americans

Mission Palms Conference Room: Covetto 60 E 5th St., Arizona

Overview During WWII, President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 resulted in approximately 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry to be forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast, then incarcerated in government-built concentration camps. Two of the ten War Relocation Camps were located in Arizona, notably on American Indian reservation lands. 13,000+ incarcerees were “relocated” to […]

Joining the Mapping Revolution

All Grade Levels | STEM | Mapping

Overview TeenMaptivists is a national student organization where students contribute data in OpenStreetMap all around the world. Students are learning the power of the map and making a difference one edit at a time. Come learn more how your students can become part of the mapping revolution! Session Focus Secondary/High School | Mapping, Activism, Community […]