Tales & Travels: First Chapter Friday
Overview Embark on a global storytelling journey! World Geography meets middle grade books through First Chapter Friday. Students make real-world connections through weekly reads that have a setting in a […]
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Mission Palms Conference Room: San Pedro 60 E 5th St., Tempe, Arizona
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Lessons Learned from Creating a Local Atlas
Mission Palms Conference Room: Colonnade 60 E 5th St., Tempe, ArizonaOverview A resource geographer, a cartographer, and an educator collaborated to make an atlas of a local watershed as a tool for geographic education. This project addresses declining geographic literacy […]
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Canceled How High Impact, Career, and Experiential Learning Opportunities Support Geography Students
Mission Palms Conference Room: XavierOverview This project explores the ways in which faculty and undergraduate students at a midsize- regional comprehensive university in eastern Colorado have found ways to partner with U.S. parks and […]
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GIS in the Community: Giving students practical experience while making meaningful community connect
Mission Palms Conference Room: DoloresOverview As part of the Department of Geography and Sustainability at UTK GIST curriculum, we offer an elective 400-level course titled GIS in the Community. This is a community engaged […]
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Where it’s at: Interpreting Marine Biological Research for Creating Geographic Education Activities
Mission Palms Coference Room: Joshua TreeOverview Marine biological research activities provide a rich and engaging basis for geographic educational activities with a strong foundation in STEM content. In this presentation, learning activities based on marine […]
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Joining the Mapping Revolution
All Grade Levels | STEM | MappingOverview 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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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 […]