Upcoming Dates:
GENI Board Meeting, August 17 at IUPUI
Indiana Geographic Information Council Governmental Forum, September 5
IPS Geography Workshop K-5, September 12
National Geographic Bee Registration Deadline, October 15
GeoFest at Spring Mill State Park, October 18-19
Indiana State GIS Day, November 5
Purdue GIS Day, November 6-7
Indiana Council for the Social StudiesAnnual Conference, November 8
National GAW, November 17-23
International GIS Day, November 20
Indiana International Festival, November 20-24
GENI Board Meeting, December 6-7 at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park Inn
Indiana Geographic Bee, April 4, 2014
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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 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!
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The guide, Interconnections, is an alignment of the Common Core
English Language Arts with Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects to the Geography for Life: National Geography
Standards, Second Edition. The final guide will be
available in Summer of 2013.
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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
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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
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