NHCSS offers a 1st or 2nd year teacher scholarship to attend the
Northeast Regional Social Studies Conference in Sturbridge, MA. more

Please bring your student teams to compete in this year’s New Hampshire
Economics Challenge, which is being held at Southern New Hampshire
University on Monday March 15.

The Outreach Program of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies serves K-12 public, private and charter schools in the greater New England area in providing resources for teaching about Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The US Department of Education funds these activities under its Title VI grant, which designates a number of [...]

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 6 PM, Tristam Johnson will present “Making Cents and Relieving Poverty in Latin America.”  Tristam has worked for the past two decades in nine countries throughout South and Central America. His work focuses on Community Development related to health, education, microenterprise, governance and natural resource protection.
Tristam will present on [...]

I am currently seeking an adjunct instructor to teach introduction to geography (GEON 101) for the spring semester. The meeting time is Monday from 8:00-9:50 am and Wednesday from 8:00-8:50 am. Classes begin the week of January 19th and the final will be given the week of April 26th.
A course description is available in the [...]

Start preparing now for Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21, 2009!

Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Place in the World

Go to GeographyAwarenessWeek.org and get lost in maps: big & small, high-tech & low-tech! [more]

The final deadline for registration has been extended to December 11, 2009. After October 15, the registration fee increases to $90.

The National Geographic Bee is a school competition for students in any grades four through eight. Excite your students about the world around them and reward those who excel in their knowledge of geography by giving them a chance to compete in a school geographic bee.

School level Bees can be held up to January 15, 2010. More

In July geography and science teachers met At Conval High School for a week to develop lessons with a geo-science emphasis. All schools in New Hampshire are required to teach geography. It is often taught within the social studies discipline but physical geography fits very well within a science curriculum too. These lessons for Middle [...]

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 [...]

A recent poll found that most young adults know little about world geography, and very little more about their own country. But, at the Mast Way elementary school in Lee, New Hampshire, one fourth grade teacher is leading the charge to change that. See the video here