Reversed Vocabulary: Flip Pre-Teaching Vocabulary on Its Head!

Mission Palms Coference Room: Joshua Tree

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 […]

NASA GLOBE … Connecting Global Issues Through a STEM Lens

Mission Palms Conference Room: Colonnade 60 E 5th St., Tempe, Arizona

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 […]

Introduction to using StoryMaps in your classroom

Mission Palms Conference Room: San Pedro 60 E 5th St., Tempe, Arizona

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 […]

Redlining is Only Part of the Story

Mission Palms Conference Room: Xavier

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 […]

What Sports Leagues can tell us about Globalization

Mission Palms Conference Room: Dolores

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 […]

Tool to Assess Student Understanding of the Five Themes of Human Geography

Mission Palms Conference Room: Colonnade 60 E 5th St., Tempe, Arizona

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 […]

Implementing Powerful Geography: Teacher and Student Attitudes

Mission Palms Conference Room: Covetto 60 E 5th St., Arizona

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 […]

Our National Parks as Classrooms of Geography

Mission Palms Conference Room: Xavier

Overview 'National Parks' and protected areas around the world serve as classrooms at large, providing spaces and places that are conducive to enriching education for students. No matter the subject […]

Purposeful Problems: Using Problem-Based Gameplay to Promote Geo-Capabilities

Mission Palms Coference Room: Joshua Tree

Overview By immersing students in scenarios or problems reflective of real world scenarios, educators can promote deeper geographic understanding, independent decision-making skills, and the ability to transfer powerful geography knowledge […]