Summary From ancient civilizations to religions, technology, and even disease, the geographic theme of “Movement” plays an integral role in our understanding of the world. Participants will investigate the geographic theme of movement utilizing the GeoHistoGram, using such topics as civilizations, religion, and disease. At the end of the session, participants will receive a packet […]
Summary Building on Ed Ayers’ 2021 essay, “All History is Local,” freely accessible digital scholarship tools and resources will be explored, allowing participants to drill down to local historical data, and then widen the lens to see how their community is part of the story of our shared American past. Data visualizations and interactive mapping […]
Summary In this session, we will discuss how to use laboratory assignments to teach population geography. Population geography connects diverse topics including sustainability, economics, politics, and culture. Using labs to teach this topic allows students to use real world data to deepen their understanding of population geography concepts. In this session, we will begin with […]
Summary This session explores the lyrical content of the music of Midnight Oil, an Australian rock band active for more than 40 years, as a strategy to illuminate the varied political, social, and environmental landscapes of Australia. The band’s lyrics use place names, evocative place description, and Australian vernacular terms to create for the listener […]
Summary This session will share information on the construction of an EcoBrick together with results of a case study evaluating the pedagogical outcomes of incorporating EcoBrick construction into undergraduate geography and sustainability curricula. Drawing on submitted student documents and EcoBrick events over the past four years, the project investigates how hands-on EcoBrick construction fosters appreciation […]
Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education, offering powerful tools to help teachers support emergent bilingual students in acquiring language skills while mastering geographic concepts. This presentation explores innovative ways AI can enhance both language acquisition and content knowledge in the geography classroom. By integrating AI-driven adaptive learning technologies, educators can create inclusive, personalized learning […]
Summary We invite contributors to use 5-8 minutes to make brief, lively presentations of classroom ideas, materials, or strategies that work to electrify geography education and inspire and mentor others. The session is envisioned as a workshop-like panel where contributors "pitch" and discuss their ideas, whether fully developed or still in planning. We invite interested […]
Summary Join us for a “re-exploration” of regions, those mental constructs that shape how students learn about their world. Can regions be constructed to be more accurate, fair, and useful? Regionalization, and the relationships between power and space, are an important part of AP Human Geography and other geography courses. Geographers have long questioned the […]
Summary "Students can find facts on the internet; we should focus on teaching skills." This observation is common, but it is also naive and dangerous. If students lack a framework of accurate and well-connected facts for comparison, it is hard to teach a skill of evaluating new facts for accuracy or relevance. The key word […]
Summary The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has sparked both optimism and unease within education. For geography and the broader social sciences, GenAI tools such as ChatGPT promise efficiencies in curriculum design, data analysis, and feedback, yet they also produce errors, false citations, and cultural oversimplifications. The use of large language models poses […]
Summary Participants in this session will examine the history of racism in US rural land use and farm systems, attempting to answer the question, “Why are there so few Black farmers in America today?” It wasn’t always this way, so how did we arrive here? This session aims to develop educators’ content area knowledge and […]
Summary This interactive workshop introduces secondary geography educators to graphic novels as powerful pedagogical tools for teaching spatial concepts related to human migration, geopolitical borders, and transnational movement. Drawing on GW's Middle East Studies research collection curated by Dr. Amal Cavender, participants will explore how graphic narratives can transform complex geographic theories into accessible spatial […]
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