Overview Join us for an exploration of world culture and geography with the MapMaker. We’ll discover the new features and functions of MapMaker as well as the hundreds of maps […]

Overview Every human possesses a “sense of place,” subjective feelings and memories evoked by a geographic location. Both culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions. This is […]

Overview Discover a new way to pre-teach vocabulary with a strategy that combines image analysis, building language connections, and making predictions about the content right at the beginning of each […]

Overview This session will share a cross-cutting perspective connecting geographic skills with STEM through the NASA GLOBE program. We will focus on how GLOBE is being used to develop STEM […]

Overview This session provides an overview and sample chapters from Thriving in an Academic Career: An International and Interdisciplinary Guide for Early Career Faculty, a book that will be published […]

Summary There are tens of thousands of storymaps created by domain experts from around the world.  This workshop will explore how to find, use, and evaluate student work related to […]

Overview Redlining, some scholars contend, has become a “narrative crutch” that obscures a much longer history of housing discrimination. Redlining didn’t create systemic racism in American housing patterns – it […]

Overview Global Sports Leagues can be the perfect way to draw students' attention to the geographic phenomena of globalization and glocalization. Using case studies from European Soccer Leagues, we will […]

Overview Human geography acquaints students with a geographic perspective on topics such as culture, environment, population, migration, political systems, language, religion, ethnicity, urban challenges, and economic structures. The topics covered […]

Overview Powerful Geography is a new approach to teaching and learning geography which aims to help students find connections between powerful geographic knowledge and students’ future career goals. It is […]