2. Water & Drought: Two Sides of the Same Coin -

A GeoSpatial Tutorial on GPS, Remote Sensing & GIS (coming soon)

25th annual

Cuba in the Summer of 2013

Join Dr. Tim Brothers for a summer course to learn about and to visit Cuba. Undergraduate, graduate, and Professional Growth Points are available.

All Over the Map: 10 Ways to Teach About Geography

The New York Times, through The Learning Network (Teaching & Learning with the New York Times), has focused an article on various ways that teaching Geography can be accomplished utilizing the newspaper. Items are, also, related to the National Geography Standards.

Geography Book Blog

Now available at GENI's Geography Book Blog site

Educators, geographers, geo-spatial technology professionals, and geographically literate citizens expressed a desire to read geographically-related books and to share thoughts about the books. The second two books are How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman and Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman (a Muncie native). The purpose for the Geography Book Blog is not necessarily for classroom applications but for improving geographic literacy: enjoyment, intellectual enrichment, and awareness.

Advance Placement Human Geography Portal

The National Geographic Education website has created a portal for teaching and learning resources dedicated to the major topics taught in the APHG course. Visit the site often as it is constantly growing.

APHG / ELA Connections

A document highlighting a few of the English/Language Arts Common Core Standards connections to the Advanced Placement Human Geography Standards. The document is a starting point. Please share your additions!

Youth World Map Competition

The 20th annual Barbara Petchenick International Map Competition, organized by the International Cartographic Association. The competition is open to children and youth age 16 and under and is organized into 4 different age groupings: under 6, ages 6-8, ages 9-12, and ages 12-16. The aim of the competition is to promote children's creative representation of the world, to enhance their cartographic awareness and to make them conscious of their environment.

Geography for Life:

National Geography Standards, 2nd Edition

The guide, Interconnections, is an alignment of the Common Core English Language Arts with Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects to the Geography for Life: National Geography Standards, Second Edition. National Geographic Education is making this draft guide available for public comment as we continue to refine it. Please click on this link to share your feedback with us. The final guide will be available in March of 2013.

Speak Up

for Geography

>>>>>>

National Geographic Bee sponsor Google produced a great short video about

What Can You Do With Geography?

cut and paste into your browser:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube%2c+what+can+you+do+with+geography&view=

detail&mid=2A37D7E48F418470D21A2A37D7E48F418470D21A&first=0

Dear Indiana Geographic Literacy Advocates,

I need your help!!!

Please contact our federal Senators and Representatives to urge them to support a bill (the Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act) that would authorize $15 million annually over the next five years for teacher-training and materials in geographic education. Did you know that Geography is the ONLY federally-recognized core subject that has not received dedicated federal funding since No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002? Not one dime. Yet, every other core subject receives support. It will help our cause if the Members of Congress have heard from YOU (their Indiana constituents) about the importance of geography education and geographic literacy, and about the existence of the Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act. I urge you to join me in a chorus of support for action by Congress.

YOU are who our elected officials want to hear from.

You can go to SpeakUpForGeography .org and send pre-written letters directly to your Senators and Representative. It only takes a minute to show support for K-12 geography education in our schools. By the time I visit Capitol Hill, our Members of Congress will know that I am speaking on behalf of an accomplished group of educators, curriculum coordinators, university professors, professional geographers, and IN citizens who are making a difference throughout the state.

THANK YOU for considering this opportunity to help put geography "back on the map" with federal support. I am proud to represent Geography Education to our elected officials, and I am hopeful that we can correct the troubling oversight that leaves Geography alone without federal funding.

Geographically,

Kathy Lamb Kozenski

IndianaView: interactives for high school students