Summary GeoCivics engaged teachers from across the United States in a place-based professional development in Washington DC. The K-12 teachers discussed with National Parks Rangers current changes happening within the parks to "tell the true history" of the parks, engaged with Black American historians about the history of Washington DC and it's direct connection to […]

Summary Beyond the Description of Place: Building Geographic Vocabulary and Schema in the Classroom. This hands-on, 45-minute session will provide multiple activities to help teachers encourage students to engage with academic texts as well as fiction and creative nonfiction as a means of refining geographic concepts and skills. Examples will be targeted to middle and […]

Summary Interactive digital mapping platforms (NG Mapmaker, ArcGIS Online, Google Earth), and satellite imagery are powerful instructional tools that encourage inquiry-based learning. The Delaware Center for Geographic Education (DCGE), in partnership with the Delaware Department of Education and Social Studies Coalition of Delaware, has been inserting all forms of geospatial technologies into newly-developed, literature based […]

Summary This presentation shows web-based teaching/learning resources that explain key processes of change in today’s world such as climate change. globalization, economic failures, urbanization, and the like. These short modules are academically informed but tailored to a non-academic audience. They are found at <https://davidrutherford.org/resources> Session Focus All Grade Levels | Teaching/Learning | Today's World-Changing Conference […]

Summary In the Encoding Geography Researcher Practitioner Partnership, researchers and teachers work together to explore the benefits and opportunities related to the integration of computational thinking and computer science into geography instruction. The intersection of geography and computer science connects directly to important research topics and impactful careers in many fields. These fields are likely […]

Overview Geography education goes a long way in understanding why, where, and how genocides occur. In my teaching, I stress the geopolitical circumstances behind the occurrence of genocides a d how the landscape adds to the uniqueness of each genocide. For this session, I (1) discuss why and when to teach about genocides and human rights in Geography […]

Overview Come travel the Silk Road! But wait, how will you get past the Taklimakan (Go in and you will never come out) Desert? What will you trade? Will your children be grown up by the time you get home? Participants will investigate the ancient Silk Road through two lenses, the first, a decision-making activity […]

Overview What’s it like here? If you are curious about utilizing dynamic maps to activate student spatial thinking skills, join us to learn about one pathway to engage learners with their local landscape. Walk through an investigation created by a 7th grade teacher and a GeoMentor that utilizes the new MapMaker application to empower students […]

Overview This session will open up the discussion of the relevance of framing classroom conversations of global events within a lens of geopolitics. Through examining geopolitical theories from a critical geopolitical lens it is possible to help put world events into more of a geographic perspective. By teaching students to break about arguments and critique […]