Teaching Success on the FRQ

Geography, Student Outcomes, and Educational Equity: Future Needs

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 […]

Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope: Engaging Students with Community & Citizen Science Data

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 […]

Indigenous Reconciliation in Canada: Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

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 […]

Exploring Sense of Place: Student-led Virtual and IRL Independent Studies

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 […]

Volcanoes, Puffins, and Happy Campers: The Impact of Eco-Tourism in Iceland

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 […]

Raising the Visibility of Geography in STEM other disciplines

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As geography teachers, we are aware that we: 1) Need to continually advocate with teachers of other disciplines on how geography is essential and can overlap with different concepts they teach. 2) That geography is a solid platform to show real-world applications of math and science. 3) Geography also provides the opportunity for communicating through […]