AP Human Geography Workshop – “Sustainability”
2021-01-23 09:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
The South Carolina Geographic Alliance is pleased to partner with the National Council for Geographic Education for our Spring 2021 AP Human Geography Workshop.
The workshop focus will be on sustainability as it appears across several units and topics, from industrial and economic development to thinking geographically.

Presenters include:
Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina
Lisa Benton-Short, Professor of Geography, George Washington University
Heather Mitchell, President/Architect, BOUDREAUX

Registration is $10 for NCGE members and $25 for non-NCGE members. (Non-membership registration includes NCGE annual membership)

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Workshop attendees will receive access to the virtual sessions and instructional materials. Those present will receive certification of professional development hours and be entered into a door prize drawing at the end of the day.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Michael Mewborne at the South Carolina Geographic Alliance (mewbornj@mailbox.sc.edu).

GEOFEST Minnesota
2021-01-30 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
GEOFEST Minnesota
ONLINE Saturday January 30, 2021
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (sessions)
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Note: there is no cost to attend thanks to a grant from National Geographic, but you must register in advance to attend.

University of South Carolina Upstate Pre-Service Workshop
2021-02-04 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
February 4 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Education students at Uof SC Upstate will learn about geography standards, resources, and best practices.

Coker University Pre-Service Workshop
2021-02-11 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
February 11 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Education students at Coker University will learn about geography standards, resources, and best-practices.

Columbia College Pre-Service Workshop
2021-02-23 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
February 23 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pmEducation students at Columbia College will learn about geography standards, resources, and best practices.

Columbia College Pre-Service Workshop
2021-02-25 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Education students at Columbia College will learn about geography standards, resources, and best practices.

Teaching with GIS, Even During a Pandemic-PART I: Making maps and conducting spatial analysis with ArcGIS Online
2021-02-25 19:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
This session will introduce participants to ArcGIS Online, a web-based geographic information system that is free for use by K12 teachers and their students. For the past five years, our team of teachers and university faculty has been using ArcGIS and its related tools to teach high school social studies and science. During the pandemic, we have successfully shifted our instruction online. Learn how to use ArcGIS and explore how you might bring

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A follow-up session will demonstrate data collection tools for bringing student-collected information into your classroom.

2021 Virginia Map Competition: What’s in my Watershed?
2021-03-05
Showcase the work of your students using an Esri Organizational Account!
Possible topics include geological characteristics, flora and fauna, economic activities, environmental issues, and more! Note: The geographic focus of the student-created products must focus on the theme and be located within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Entries will be judges in two divisions

Grades 4-8
Grades 9-12

Students create an ArcGIS StoryMap (“new” template), or a Classic Story Map (any of the “classic” templates), or an ArcGIS web app.

PA Geographic Bee
2021-04-06 | State Museum of Pennsylvania, PA
The State Museum of Pennsylvania

Teaching with GIS, Even During a Pandemic-Part II: Student data collection with ArcGIS Online.
2021-04-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
This session is a follow-up to an introduction to using ArcGIS Online.
This session will demonstrate data collection with ArcGIS Online, a web-based geographic information system that is free for use by K12 teachers and their students. For the past five years, our team of teachers and university faculty has been using ArcGIS and its related tools to teach high school social studies and science. During the pandemic, we have successfully shifted our instruction online, setting up geographic inquiries with data that students collect in their neighborhoods. Learn how to use Field Maps and Survey123, two tools for bringing data into ArcGIS, and explore how you might bring hands-on data collection and GIS into your classroom.

Applying Geographic Thinking Skills with Your Learners
2021-10-11 20:31 - 2021-12-31 00:00 (America/New_York)
When confronted with any issue, geographers ask three important questions:

Where is it?
Why is it there?
Why do we care?

Geographic thinking can be applied with learners at any age, in any situation. Geographers view every issue through multiple perspectives and at multiple scales to gain a full understanding. This short, introductory course provides background for all formal and informal educators interested in bringing geographic thinking to their instruction.
This course is entirely self-paced and should take no more than 90 minutes to complete.

101st NCSS Annual Conference
2021-11-15 00:00 - 2021-11-19 00:00 (America/New_York)
The NCSS 101st Annual Conference will be held online from Monday-Sunday, November 15-21, 2021. Last year we delivered the hottest virtual conference of the season, and this year will be no different as we focus on Solidarity in Social Studies.
Our full week will provide you with the most engaging and comfortable environment to experience your best virtual event yet.
You will not need to attend the virtual conference for a full week. Most of the live presentations will be scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps during the week in the evening. New recorded sessions will be released each day for on-demand viewing.

NCGE Virtual Annual Meeting: Professional Development Super Saturday Kickoff
2021-12-04 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Based on your feedback, this year’s professional development initiative is designed to fit your lifestyle and support you in delivering quality geography education by offering a Super Saturday Kickoff that continues all year long. The half-day Kickoff will provide you with the most engaging and comfortable environment to experience your best virtual event yet.

Enhance your professional learning by participating in dozens of quality geography grade level sessions.
Get the latest resources, technology, and approaches to geography education.
Learn from prominent keynote speakers.
Connect with other like-minded professionals via virtual networking.
Join the virtual awards banquet & help celebrate those who are making a significant difference in geography education.
Attend NCGE’s Annual Meeting & learn more about the leadership and their vision for geography education.
Gain free access to grade-level focused professional development webinars and workshops for one year.

Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope: Engaging Students with Community & Citizen Science Data
2021-12-06 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Do you want to support kids in working with maps, graphs, and community and citizen science data sets? BSCS Science Learning has developed Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope, free instructional activities designed to connect students with environmental data and build their confidence in working with the data to answer questions about the world. This session will focus on using an inquiry model to support students as they map and graph real-world data. Bring your computer and be ready to explore data in FieldScope.

Using Personal Travel to Enrich Geography Lessons
2021-12-09 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
This session will model methods for incorporating materials collected from personal travel experiences, and also provide information on organizations and fellowships that are available to teachers to help them travel. Through the incorporation of geospatial technologies, photos, and other technologies, teachers can use professional and personal travel to bring meaningful learning experiences back to their own students.

Cartooning in a Geography Classroom
2021-12-14 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Cartooning in a Geography Classroom uses a PowerPoint presentation to explore the use of newspaper cartoons in grade 7 -12 classrooms. After examining the types of newspaper cartooning, participants receive strategies to read and analyze political cartoons. All material relates to the concepts of geographic thinking with suggestions to create computer-generated cartoons. Links to cartoon resources are provided.

The Multimedia Art Approach to Geography in the Classroom
2021-12-20 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | Webinar
When students are able to use a hands-on approach to the learning of different types of geographical perspectives they become better learners. This session will show you how to incorporate art into any social studies classroom. You will be shown examples of student work across the different disciplines in a social studies department, as well as, the classroom. We will also be delving into how to approach and include the art discipline to achieve a cross-curriculum experience. Attendees will be given a lesson plan and shown how to incorporate 3-D or painted geography into their lesson plan to take back to their classroom

The Anthropocene: How Social Studies Teachers Should Respond
2022-01-04 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Many scholars refer to the current period in human-environment history as the Anthropocene (the Age of Humans). No place on Earth is unaffected by human influences, and the pace and magnitude of environmental change are accelerating. This reality has both practical and ethical consequences for social studies educators. This session brings together ideas related to the importance of human-environment thinking in geography education and the ethics of what teachers should be doing to better prepare students for college, careers, and civic life in the Anthropocene.
Presenter: Thomas Larsen

Contested Landscapes-Mapping Inequality from Redlining to COVID-19
2022-01-06 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
The legacies of social, economic, and environmental injustices related to redlining are mapped through the work of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. New American History explores how our digital scholarship, including Mapping Inequality, Renewing Inequality, and the Social Vulnerability Index helps K16 educators and students visualize complex data using GIS and historical documents to understand how systemic inequities persist in our communities today.

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT THE SDGS
2022-01-10 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
With the adoption of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, countries laid out a vision for supporting the well-being of all the world’s people, as well as the environment. In this hands-on/minds-on session, the presenter will engage participants in a classroom activity that introduces students to the SDGs – the aims, importance, and status – as well as the interconnections among the different goals. She will also facilitate activities for the classroom that take a deeper look into global inequities as they relate to energy use and climate resilience, and more localized inequities related to waste disposal. Participants will also engage in an activity that examines “needs vs. wants” and how this differs among communities here and around the globe.

GIS AND STUDENTS' SPATIAL THINKING SKILLS: COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL IMPACT
2022-01-12 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
For many years, we’ve discussed the impact of GIS on student learning largely through anecdotes and examples. During this time, the promise of the technology has been real, but elusive, especially in the absence of quantitative studies of its impact. For the past few years, a team of researchers from James Madison, Northwestern, Georgetown and American Universities have been conducting an in-depth study to explore the behavioral and cognitive impact of the use of GIS by high school students. In this session, we will describe the setting for this study (the Geospatial Semester in Virginia), the study’s format and the results, including both behavioral and cognitive measures (explored using fMRI). We’ll share the growing base of evidence for the impact of GIS in learning and make the case for its impact in classrooms.

MAPPING AND MAKING - GEO MAKER INSTITUTE
2022-01-20 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
In order to increase geography awareness, there has to be training of geographic perspective, content knowledge as well as exposure to ever-advancing geo-technology skills. With a blending of National Geographic Education resources and ESRI geotechnologies, Heidi Ragsdale and STEM is My Future, established the Geo Maker Institute (GMI), which provides training for K-12 teachers and students, focusing on Mapping and Making. The Problem-Based Learning course focuses on this Driving Question: “How can rural educators increase our regional citizens’ Geo-Awareness through GIS and maker training?” This NCGE presentation will include the structure of the GMI training, resources for implementation, ideas to share within formal and informal learning settings, and ideas for establishing personalized learning networks (PLN) for continued collaboration.

Bug Appétit: How Insects are Creating Globally Sustainable Foods
2022-01-25 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
This presentation is designed to introduce participants to the world of insects and how they are changing the global food scene. It is designed to incorporate science and social studies. Participants will learn background information about the environmental impact of trying to feed the world’s population. Through a variety of resources, they will learn about human-environment interaction. Content will focus on global communities, insects as a food source, and climate change. Teaching methods will be both teacher and student-centered. Kinesthetic learning will be used through a National Geographic mapping activity to teach students about different places around the world and insects that they eat. Direct instruction will be given for background information about insects, farming, and environmental impact. Materials will be provided for background reading.

CANCELLED: USING SOCIAL AND MULTIMEDIA TO TEACH AND FACILITATE GEOGRAPHY
2022-01-31 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Learn how to bring your geography presentations to the next level by using social and multimedia. All grade levels (K-PhD) and types of instruction (online, hybrid, and F2F) will be addressed. Participants will be given specific examples/resources (songs, movies, sitcoms/shows, memes/pictures/images, and videos) they can use to better teach and facilitate geography. Come learn how to make geography fun again!

Geography, Student Outcomes, and Educational Equity: Future Needs
2022-02-01 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
This webinar will present the latest findings from current large-scale empirical research using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Geography. Session content will feature forthcoming articles in a special issue of the Journal of Geography.

The first 20 minutes will be devoted to the results of a descriptive analysis of geography achievement in the United States, 1994-2018.

The next 20 minutes will focus on research by doctoral students who used the NAEP Data Explorer to address questions about student achievement and classroom-level “opportunity to learn” variables (e.g., curriculum content and exposure, teacher training, teaching experience, instructional modalities, and processes). Attendees will receive copies of NAEP data reports for small-group discussion and reflection.

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Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope: Engaging Students with Community & Citizen Science Data
2022-02-03 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Do you want to support kids in working with maps, graphs, and community and citizen science data sets? BSCS Science Learning has developed Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope, free instructional activities designed to connect students with environmental data and build their confidence in working with the data to answer questions about the world. This session will focus on using an inquiry model to support students as they map and graph real-world data. Bring your computer and be ready to explore data in FieldScope.
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Indigenous Reconciliation in Canada: Teaching Resources for Your Classroom
2022-02-07 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Do you aspire to decolonize your classroom? This session will share several teaching resources from Canada to help educators work toward Indigenous Reconciliation in their classrooms.
Participants will be provided with a variety of tools to showcase Indigenous perspectives and reconciliation actions in their classroom, beginning with a goal to acknowledge the land we live on as ancestral homelands of First Peoples.

A variety of resources including educator guides, lesson plans, and more will be showcased from organizations such as:
-National Center for Truth & Reconciliation;
-First Nations Education Steering Committee;
-Native-Land.ca;
-Historia Canada;
-Canadian Geographic;
-Critical Thinking Consortium; and
-Select at Canadian university programs.
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Exploring Sense of Place: Student-led Virtual and IRL Independent Studies
2022-02-15 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
In this webinar, we will discuss a culminating project for AP Human Geography students which motivated students to answer essential questions of inquiry:
-Why do we value some spaces more than others?
-How do humans curate and show value in a space?
-What are the implications of the human imprint?
-What happens when we stop placing value on our spaces?
The investigation was an independent study in which students chose from eight different pathways of exploration surrounding the concept of sense of place. Employing Google tools we learned to use over the course of the school year, students researched and presented their findings of sense of place, paying special care to connect their observations to Yi-Fu Tuan, the leading academic on the topic of geographical sense of place. Depending on the student’s choice of inquiry, students were assigned an academic journal article written by Yi-Fu Tuan. After annotations, students are encouraged to contemplate the philosophical thoughts of Yi-Fu Tuan during their investigation, and ultimately choose one quote from the professor that best reflects their findings, to include in their final project’s commentary.
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Volcanoes, Puffins, and Happy Campers: The Impact of Eco-Tourism in Iceland
2022-02-23 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Iceland, the home of fire and ice, has become a bucket list trip for an increasing number of tourists. The island nation of 350,000 people has seen the number of tourists quadruple since 2010. Adventurous travelers were attracted to the waterfall
In this webinar, Debra Troxell and Anita Ardi will introduce participants to Icelandic tourism through images and data and explain how Iceland has encouraged tourism as part of its economic development. She will engage participants through data and image analysis of the various levels of commercialization and access at various Icelandic tourist attractions. A discussion will be held on the advantages (such as economic development, influx of foreign currency, etc.) and the disadvantages (increase in English speakers, damaging the landscape, etc.)s, glaciers, and rugged conditions. As the number of travelers increased and the type of traveler changed, Iceland has struggled to balance the much-loved ruggedness with accessibility and commercialization. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of promoting eco-tourism on the economy, environment, and culture of Iceland.
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GeoCamp Iceland Ask Me Anything "AMA"
2022-02-24 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar
If you are considering participating in the NCGE GeoCamp Iceland 2022 program but need more information, we invite you to join us for the GeoCamp informational webinar.
We recognize the importance of inquiry and field experience opportunities for geographic educators, however, we also realize that this is a big commitment. During this webinar, NCGE GeoCamp representatives will share their expertise, personal experiences and provide you with an opportunity to ask questions.
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