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Geography Awareness Week. Nov 14-20 2010
The National Geographic Society has announced the theme for Geography Awareness Week, to be held November 14-20, 2010. This year’s theme is freshwater.
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Announcements
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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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.
NHPT Social Studies
Giant Maps Info
National Geographic Atlas Explorer
Teacher Professional Development and Resources
Real Climate Climate Science from Climate Scientists.
Science Daily: Geographical News..
Featured Post
The New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies is seeking proposals to fill out its offerings at the October 28, ...
Share your experience and your expertise with others ……… NEARC and the New England Geography Alliance Network will hold their 3rd ...
Student Video Contest: Be the Change
Challenge your students to take global issues beyond the classroom. The Choices Program invites students in grades 9-12 to create a ...
The VT Center for Geographic Information is partnering with UNH Extension to bring two hands-on workshops to VT Technical College ...
Learn about Haiti’s People and Geography.
Haiti is in the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. ...
News
Calling all NH TC’s This is a wonderful opportunity to enhance your geographic knowledge. The NH geographic alliance will pay all fees associated with this program for two teachers to attend as long as you are willing to present on the topic sometime next year. Please contact Nancy Gagnon at momgeo@gmail.com if you are interested.
Canadian-American Center
Summer Institute for [...]
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GIS Day.
GIS Day is held each year in the third week of November, on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week, a geographic literacy initiative sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
Feature
Call for 2010 NCGE Award NominationsGreetings from NCGE with a friendly reminder to all members to consider submitting nominations for one of the many prestigious NCGE awards for 2010.
Award winners will be recognized at the 2010 NCGE meeting in beautiful Savannah, Georgia September 29-October 3, 2010. (The call for proposals for the National Conference for Geographic Education will be coming [...]
Of Interest.
Free Online Lectures.Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education. Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.
Around and About.
GeoMentors Help Students See the World in New Ways Hundreds of professionals have stepped forward, through the new GeoMentor Program from National Geographic and ESRI, to help students better understand their world.
These volunteers are ready to share insights into the importance of geography and the geo-technologies increasingly used in the workplace for analysis and problem-solving.
Each GeoMentor has registered through www.GeoMentor.org and is ready to [...]
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