Summary This workshop explores the critical role of geography in shaping agricultural production and its impact on food, clothing, and shelter. Participants will connect these concepts to the Big Ideas of AP Human Geography (APHG)—Patterns and Spatial Organization, Impacts and Interactions, and Spatial Process and Societal Change—and gain strategies for engaging students in analyzing geographic […]
Summary Throughout the 1800's, as the United States expanded north and west after the Louisiana Purchase, there were numerous explorers who came to northern Minnesota searching for the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Though the mouth was well known and much of the lower and middle river well charted, it proved to be difficult to […]
Summary This presentation is based on our chapter in Teaching Holocaust Geographies in Middle and Secondary Schools, which offers a unique perspective on using geography to understand how this genocide altered people, locations, and landscapes. Using the Geo-Inquiry Progress, students are empowered to use geographic tools to explore Holocaust survivor testimonies to analyze how policies […]
Summary Through a Spencer-funded research project, 14 social studies teachers from the Midwest and 3 teacher educators collaborated with the goal of enhancing teachers’ racially literate curriculum making in the social studies. The eighteen-month endeavor draws from the international GeoCapabilities project and the recent book “Race, Racism and the Geography Curriculum” (Morgan & Lambert, 2023). […]
Summary In this session, the presenters demonstrate how analyzing primary sources through a geographic lens differs from an historical lens while providing a more critical understanding of time, place, and events when juxtaposed with teaching history. Throughout the session, the presenters share a series of activities related to the Holocaust, which model how geographic inquiry […]
Summary Research in geography education – Where are we now? This session begins a dialog to evaluate the current state of geography education and to determine concrete steps for the future. Guided by published research agendas and The Roadmap for 21st Century Geography Education project, we will examine the geography education community’s progress tackling issues […]
Summary In this session, we share experiences of our collaborative, three-year pedagogical project that focuses on building elementary pre-service teachers’ geographic awareness and geographic lens with a purposeful eye towards connecting social studies, geography, science and STEM engineering processes that contribute to geographic thinking. Engaging the most popular global sport on the planet, Formula 1, […]
Summary In a rapidly changing educational world filled with AI, social media, loosening teacher requirements, and curriculum concerns across states, what can we do in geography education to ensure our existence beyond all the unnecessary noise? In this presentation we will share ways to keep geography relevant and get students engaged in the classroom. We […]
Summary In this presentation, I demonstrate a mini-lecture and in-class activity I use in my undergraduate World Regional Geography course to introduce students to the concept of a region. On an outline map of U.S. states, they draw the boundaries of “the Southwest” and list physical and/or human characteristics that define the region. They compare […]
Summary In this presentation, I will explore how geographic principles enhance Holocaust education, emphasizing spatial thinking, geographic inquiry, and geospatial technologies. Drawing from professional development courses and curricula, I will highlight three key themes: the varying scales of the Holocaust, the geographies of camps and ghettos, and the spatial ideologies behind Nazi policies. Maps, Geographic […]
Summary The audience will be presented with a short history of the pecan nut. A slide show will follow the history of the pecan, touching on the Native Americans who introduced the nut to the first Europeans exploring the Americas. The wonderful nutritious value and early farming techniques were used to enhance the plant and […]
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