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Geography Awareness Week: November 13-17, 2023

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Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. Each year more than 100,000 Americans actively participate in Geography Awareness Week.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 14-18, 2022

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Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week which occurs November 14-18, 2022: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. Geography Activities—for teachers. Digipuzzles.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 15-19, 2021

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Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week which occurs November 15-19, 2021: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. Geography Activities—for teachers. Digipuzzles.

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Remote Learning Varies Around the Country

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Now, all public schools are coming up with remote learning plans. Here’s a great article in K-12 Dive on that subject: Geography, socioeconomics created significant variation in pandemic learning plans. Remote learning used to be for snow days or virtual schools–alternatives to the traditional. But they vary.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. How exactly can programmes do this?

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14 Ways to use Scribble Maps

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Map skills borrow concepts from many different disciplines, including Math, Art, Language and of course Geography. Maps must be saved as public files unless you have a premium account. explore how geography affects history. explore how geography affects history. Insider Tip. 14 ways to use them in the classroom.

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