MISSION: Explore the Adventure in Your Community
MISSION: Explore the Adventure in Your Community Wednesday, November 2, 2011 7pm EDT/ 6pm CDT/12am GMT Daniel Raven-Ellison The Geography Collective, London, UK Your mission if you’re willing to accept it… The heart of this year’s Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek) will revolve around a series of “missions” that encourage individuals or teams of students, families, or friends to explore their own communities through geographic eyes, and challenge them to look at...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011. 8pm Eastern/ 7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific ( Need more time zones? ) *PARTNERSHIP WEBINAR: FREE for EVERYONE! Sponsored by Esri, Redlands, CA Charlie Fitzpatrick Education Manager at Esri The generous folks from the Esri Education team are back with more ideas on those cool mapping tools. Maps don’t give up all their secrets right away; you often need to tease out info through analysis. Web-based mapping tools, for both Windows and...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8pm Eastern/ 7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific Sharon Shelerud AP Human Geography Teacher Metcalf Jr. High School, Burnsville, Minnesota Need help effectively navigating the challenges of teaching AP Human Geography to 9th graders? Perhaps you need ideas and lessons for working for with your geography class at any age. Join us for a session with Sharon Shelerud, a successful APHG teacher at Metcalf Jr. High School in Burnsville, MN. Because this course is often...
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Geography Class Goes Geospatial Wednesday, August 24th 8pm Eastern/ 7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific Margaret Chernosky World Geography & AP Human Geography Teacher Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine Would you like to add activities to your human geography class that help students understand and remember human geography concepts and models? Join Margaret Chernosky as she shares her student-tested favorites. All activities are hands-on using paper maps, graphs and diagrams or computer...
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Tsunami Run-up Prediction for Seaside, Oregon Friday, May 6, 2011 4:00‐6:00 pm Hopkinton Middle High School 297 Park Ave. Contoocook, NH 03229 Teachers who attend the workshop and then implement EET lessons are eligible for a $120 stipend! This hands-on workshop will utilize a free GIS tool (Arc Explorer Java Edition for Education-AEJEE) to explore tsunami data and identify potential consequences of a five, fifteen, and twenty-meter sea level rise due to a tsunami run-up on the Oregon...
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Do you love Geography? Would you like to fit it into your very busy day? This all day workshop will give you ideas, lesson plans, and teaching strategies to incorporate into Reading, Science and Social Studies. Participants will receive lessons that give the student’s hands on experiences that are easy to implement using curriculum you already teach. Come and share your ideas with fellow teachers. Return to your classroom with sure fire ideas and goodies. Hope to see you...
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