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Free Webinars for Geography Skills Map June 1-12
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is hosting a series of Free Webinars until June 12. NCGE developed the Geography Skills map for the 21st century.
Today the speaker is Dr. Steven Paine, West Virginia Superintendent of Schools, with the topic Global 21: Students deserve it. The world demands it. To register for the [...]
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POWER OF PLACE: GEOGRAPHY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY This upcoming New Hampshire public television series teaches the geographic skills and concepts that are necessary to understand the world. Geography educators and content experts from around the globe shed light on the physical, human, political, historical, economic, and cultural factors that affect people and natural environments. Maps, animation, and academic commentary bring into focus case studies from 50 sites in 36 countries. Each case study features interviews, maps, video footage, and graphics in order to reflect the geographic issues of our world in the 21st century.
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Education Update E-Newsletter: By joining any EdNet Community, you will receive a monthly newsletter filled with educational features and news from National Geographic. EdNet
Earth Current News Digest.
EarthCurrent is a twice-weekly, bite-sized digest about archeology, culture, adventure, health, exploration, animals, environment, peoples, places, adventure, science, space, and more! Current
My Picks.
Some websites of interest.Academic Earth Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
Savage Minds Notes and Queries in Anthropology
NH Knowledge Network Classroom Internet Library.
US Geography Searchable geographic database with 1.000.000+ places and locations in the U.S.
Giant Maps Info
National Geographic Atlas Explorer
Teacher Professional Development and Resources
Real Climate Climate Science from Climate Scientists.
Science Daily: Geographical News..
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ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009) — The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the ...
The winner of the 2009 NH GeoBee was Cooper Lecza, an 8th grade student who attends Ross A Lurgio Middle ...
Interactive Maps 2009
A new interactive website featuring SHOWUSA and SHOWWorld. Both feature hundreds of animated maps, with descriptions, showing all kinds of ...
New Hampshire Geography in the News.
A recent poll found that most young adults know little about world geography, and very little more about their own ...
2009 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEE
Texas teen wins geography bee. An ‘educated guess’ in tiebreaker round earns him $25,000 scholarship. WASHINGTON - The nation's top geography ...
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Atlases.Available for sale from New Hampshire Geographic.
New Hampshire Atlas
Rhode Island Atlas
Vermont Atlas
Massachusetts Atlas
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PSU GIS Course for teachersThere are a few spaces left in the “Designing Engaged Learning Projects with GIS” course for teachers to be held at Plymouth State University June 28th-July 3 with a follow up session on August 15.
Participants will be introduced to designing engaged learning projects in which students are focused on challenging, real-life, student-directed, collaborative tasks. [...]
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Teaching Ambassador FellowshipThe U.S. Department of Education has announced the opening of applications for the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Education for the 2009-2010 school year. Currently practicing, state certified Pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade public school teachers and instructional specialists/coaches with at least three years of teaching experience are eligible to apply by March 16, 2009. …
Around and About.
Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change. Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals;[...]
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Family Geography Night.Have a Geography Night at your school or even at home. Download a Teachers Manual and these blank maps ( US Map, World Map) for ideas.[more]