Joining the Mapping Revolution
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 […]
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All Grade Levels | STEM | Mapping
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Double Displacement: Unlikely Intersection of Americans
Mission Palms Conference Room: Covetto 60 E 5th St., ArizonaOverview 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 […]
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The “Space Time Continuum”: GeoHistoGram Style
Mission Palms Conference Room: San Pedro 60 E 5th St., Tempe, ArizonaOverview 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 […]
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GeoCircle: Projects through Geographic Inquiry
WebinarSummary: Explore ideas for projects in on-level World Geography and AP Human Geography. Join the discussion of how the Geographic Inquiry process can help create projects for students. Using the […]
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Displacement and Belonging
WebinarOverview This webinar explores the lived realities of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a particular focus on their senses of belonging to different places. By focusing on Jordan, […]
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Spaceship in the Desert
WebinarOverview In 2006, Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first “zero-carbon” city: Masdar City. This talk investigates the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures […]
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GeoCircle: Best Strategies for Teaching Political Geography
Overview Welcome to our GeoCircle for The Best Strategies for teaching Political Geography. We hope you will join us for a great chat on how to engage students and deliver […]
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Toxic Supply Chains of War in Iraq
WebinarOverview Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq -- one of the most heavily bombarded cities in Iraq. Based on […]
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The Cost of Borders
WebinarOverview Borders, rather than markers of sovereign territory, are marketplaces comprised of always costly, and often deadly transactions. Moving from Lesbos, to Gaza, to Tijuana, the project shows how the […]
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Redlining is Only Part of the Story
WebinarOverview Redlining, some scholars contend, has become a “narrative crutch” that obscures a much longer history of housing discrimination. Redlining didn’t create systemic racism in American housing patterns – it […]
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GeoCircle: Spatial Patterns of Ethnicity – Exploring Neighborhoods and the Legacy of Redlining
WebinarTopics for discussion: Bring your idea, applications and questions Mapping Tools: How can we use mapping tools like Google Maps and Mapping Inequality to better understand ethnic neighborhoods and the […]
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Developing Religious Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom
WebinarOverview Exposure to world religions is critical for students to become global citizens. This session explores legal foundations in the U.S. for teaching about religion, uses case studies to consider […]