Oral storytelling traditions are as old as humans themselves. Our earliest ancestors were telling stories to entertain, inform, and pass down important knowledge. Today, audio stories still serve that same purpose, and with the help of accessible podcasting platforms, a good story has the power to compel listeners around the world to action on pressing […]

This presentation reviews a series of interdisciplinary exercises in which students sequence or “map” genetic mutations of the COVID virus to understand how variants evolve. They then use this information to track the global path of COVID variants on digital maps to identify how genetic and geographical information are used by scientists to create public […]

A pressing topic concerns the uncertain future of geography education. Numerous articles and at least one symposium have sought to outline ideal pathways. These efforts produced useful suggestions from tenured and emeritus professors, along with senior members of the geography education community. Strikingly absent from the discourse are perspectives of early-career geographers, the ones tasked […]

Explore how the COVID-19 and Health Equity unit, How can we slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus to protect our communities? supports geography, social studies, and science learning goals as well as the social emotional wellness of students. In this session, you will engage in the anchor lesson using “learner hat”. From a student’s […]

Using GIS and doing fieldwork in my classroom always felt like it was just out of reach. It was intimidating and overwhelming. This activity attempts to break past that and give teachers a model to follow where students map and analyze geospatial data to solve a problem by answering the question: where is the nearest […]