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SUMMARY:Infusing Geography into Genealogy: Creating a Family Geography
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nThis workshop is designed to bring a lesson to a larger\, teaching professional\, audience. The Family Geography Project transforms the well-worn family tree into a more critical and more research aligned document that has served to enhance student understanding of the complex socioeconomic situations that create a each family’s geography. The essence of the project underscores the NCGE Strand “Geography for Life” and parallels the “America250 through a Geographic Lens” strand. The end result is a living document that can be added to as students continue their lifelong geographical journey. \nSession Focus\nAll Grade Levels| Geography for Life | Curriculum and Instruction \nConference Room\nByrd \nMeet the Presenters\nJohnathan Walker is an Assistant Professor of Geography at James Madison University in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. He holds degrees in Geography from the University of California-Berkely (A.B.)\, Syracuse University (M.A.) and University of Georgia (Ph.D.). He primality teaches World Regional Geography in support of the General Education curriculum. He is the JMU 2026 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching. \n 
URL:https://ncge.org/event/infusing-geography-into-genealogy-creating-a-family-geography/
LOCATION:Conference Room: Byrd
CATEGORIES:Conference Sessions
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SUMMARY:Demarcation Demographics in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nIn the late 20th and early 21st centuries\, a “fall line” was created on the coastal plain of China when Special Economic Zones were created by government fiat. This presentation will examine the demographic and lifestyle changes that ensued. It will also look at similar changes that occurred during the same time period in Japan. Teaching suggestions and resources will be introduced including award-winning young adult and children’s literature about East Asia focused on this topic. \nSession Focus\nSecondary/High School | Human and Cultural Geography | World/International \nConference Room\nByrd \nMeet the Presenters\nNancy Hope is Executive Director of the Freeman Book Awards. Formerly\, she was Associate Director of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia\, a line-officer in the U.S. Navy\, a textile designer and dyer of kimono in Japan where she lived for more than eight years\, and an educational media specialist at the Children’s Museum in Boston.
URL:https://ncge.org/event/demarcation-demographics-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Conference Room: Byrd
CATEGORIES:Conference Sessions
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SUMMARY:How Students Can Apply “The Ten Steps of Walkability” to Evaluate Any Downtown
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nIn his book\, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America\, One Step at a Time (2012)\, Jeff Speck offers ten planning steps for creating American downtowns that are useful\, safe\, comfortable\, and interesting. While the ten steps emphasize walkability\, they include improvements to land use\, public transit\, bicycle use\, and traffic flow. In this presentation\, I demonstrate how to use Speck’s “Ten Steps” to design a downtown field exercise for university geography students. After reading and discussing the ten steps\, my students participated in a guided walk of downtown Edwardsville\, Illinois\, to collect notes and photos of their observations. They were instructed to answer two questions as they wrote up their results: (1) What does the city do well to promote walkability? and (2) How could walkability in downtown be improved? The assignment concluded with a short paper and an in-class discussion of their results. The surprising outcome of this discussion was students’ desire to learn more about the planning decisions behind what they saw in the field. Applying Speck’s “Ten Steps” gives students the structure to make sense of their field observations and draw meaningful conclusions. \nSession Focus\nHigher Education | Human and Cultural Geography | Curriculum and Instruction \nConference Room\nByrd \nMeet the Presenters\nDr. Susan Hume is a professor in the Department of Geography & GIS at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She believes in the power of field study in geographic education and has made field-based assignments an integral part of her urban geography and sustainable transportation courses. Susan is a lifetime member and past president of NCGE. \n 
URL:https://ncge.org/event/how-students-can-apply-the-ten-steps-of-walkability-to-evaluate-any-downtown/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Teachers to ‘See’ Place: Integrating Geospatial Technology to Transform Elementary Teacher
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nThe editors of the two NCGE journals – the Geography Teacher and the Journal of Geography – invite you to learn about the publication process for the journals and how you can become a successful author. Take half an hour to learn about preparing and submitting manuscripts\, completing the publishing process as an author\, and supporting the discipline as a reviewer. Attendees will be able to ask questions and solicit publication advice for the rest of the session. \nSession Focus \nAll Grade Levels | Physical & Environmental Geography |  STEM \nConference Room\nByrd \nMeet the Presenters\nDr. Mary D. Curtis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in the College of Education where she coordinates the Social Studies teacher preparation program. Dr. Curtis is a geography educator with over 20 years of experience and service from local to international levels. She currently serves as the Vice Chair for the Association of American Geographers Geography Education Specialty Group and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Geography.
URL:https://ncge.org/event/teaching-teachers-to-see-place-integrating-geospatial-technology-to-transform-elementary-teacher/
LOCATION:Conference Room: Byrd
CATEGORIES:Conference Sessions
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SUMMARY:Reawakening the Stealth Geography Approach in a Persistent Battleground: Elementary Education
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nIn the early 2000s\, integrating geography and literacy at the elementary level garnered attention (Gandy\, 2006; Holloway\, 2015) in the wake of NCLB and the College and Career Readiness Standards. The need for such calls further intensified in the wake of recent nationwide science of reading initiatives and persistent standardized testing. Consequently\, elementary teachers’ time constraints further marginalize elementary-level geography. As a result\, a stealth approach that integrates Geography with literacy is required to provide meaningful geography instruction in elementary grades (Sekeres & Gregg\, 2008). As noted in the Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education\, “Geography should be taught wherever it is found – whether in math\, science\, social studies\, literature\, technology\, or the arts” (Bednarz et al. 2013\, p. 10) \nThis presentation will provide a threefold approach to address marginalization in elementary-level geography. First\, reviewing previous scholarly advances in integrating geography and children’s literature offers a clear way forward. Second\, examples of effective integration of literature with the Geography for Life Six Essential Elements will be demonstrated. Third\, participants will receive an introductory list of elementary geography children’s books and additional resources to empower teachers and teacher educators to integrate elementary geography into quality children’s literature. \nSession Focus\nEarly Childhood/Elementary | Geography for Life | Literacy \nConference Room\nByrd \nMeet the Presenter\nJayson Evaniuck \n 
URL:https://ncge.org/event/reawakening-the-stealth-geography-approach-in-a-persistent-battleground-elementary-education/
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