South Carolina Geography Institutes Summer 2011
The South Carolina Geographic Alliance accepts participants from other states for its two summer institutes. Please consider sending your teachers to us. Two opportunities: June 12-24: Alliance Summer Geography Institute. This is a traditional TC development institute. Lots of content, lots of field trips, 3 graduate credits. Application materials here: http://www.cas.sc.edu/cege/events/asgi_events.html June 12-17: Geotechnology Institute. One week of GIS, GPS, virtual globes – all tailored...
Read MoreGIS Educators – Don’t hide your light under a bushel!
Share your experience and your expertise with others ……… NEARC and the New England Geography Alliance Network will hold their 3rd Annual GIS Educators Day on November 7, 2010 at the Marriott Hotel in Newport, RI. The event, which focuses on the use of GIS in both K-12 and higher education, is a one day preconference to NEARC’s annual user conference which runs from November 7-10. The event is for experienced GIS users as well as for those who want to learn about the educational...
Read MoreGIS Across the Curriculum (Deadline January 31st)
The goal of the 2008-2009 Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical project, Enhancing Student Learning with GIS Across the Curriculum, is to expose New Hampshire teachers and students to GIS (geographic information systems) and other geospatial technologies and provide teachers with the knowledge and support needed to implement GIS-based lessons and projects with their students. Applications are currently being accepted for the spring portion of the program where I will be working with five teams of...
Read MoreUniversity of New Hampshire, Durham: GIS Day Event.
This is our tenth year, and we are very excited about it! It will be this Wednesday, November 12, 2008. GIS Day is an outreach event that brings hundreds of high school juniors and seniors together with hundreds of geo-spatial science professionals, university level educators, and the general public to learn more about the important contributions that geography and geo-spatial science make in all of our lives. The event (http://gisday.sr.unh.edu/) will include a display of a sampling...
Read MoreA Two-for-One Professional Development Workshop.
Fun with Geography Who: : K-12 teachers (elementary, social studies, science, modern language,anyone). What: Two workshops sponsored by the New Hampshire Geographic Alliance (NHGA) in one day of fun and activity. In the first workshop you will learn how to have your school celebrate Geography Awareness Week-November 16-22 with ideas and materials for lessons, activities, and school-wide participation. The theme this year is The Americas. In the second workshop, you will learn how to...
Read MoreNat Geo’s Giant Maps.
The following link will take you to a short video of Giant Maps in action. Giant Asia Map comes to town. Video courtesy of the Washington Geographic...
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“The programs offered by the New Hampshire Geographic Alliance are possible due to the support of the National Geographic Education Foundation and Keene State College.”
