NCGE Past Presidents’ Roundtable

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

Overview NCGE’s Past Presidents are vital sources of institutional knowledge.  Contributors to this roundtable will address the following questions:  (1) What recommendations do Past Presidents have for future NCGE leaders, (2) What meaningful lessons can be gleaned from geography education’s history, and (3) What ‘big questions’ remain for geography education? Session Focus Future of Geography […]

Poster Session: Teachers Collaborating Across Borders: Connecting Teachers and Students

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview Since 2020, the Teachers Collaborating Across Borders (TCAB) program has connected 20 K-12 teachers and their students in the US with 20 counterparts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) each year for joint virtual exchange projects. Participants can teach any subject or grade, and are chosen from a range of schools and […]

Poster Session: The Forgotten Art: Why Retrieval Practice of Geographical Facts is Essential to Lowering Cognitive

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview The study of Geography is a key component to understanding the World, developing Global Citizenship along with Cultural Awareness and promoting Critical Thinking Skills; however, Educators across America have often forgotten the foundation for this level of understanding begins at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy: Recall of facts and basic concepts (Mcdaniel, R.,1970). For […]

Poster Session: Bridging Cultures: The Amazon

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview This poster session compares and contrasts the factors of the six themes of the AP World History curriculum with an emphasis on geography, climate, culture, economy, and the indigenous populations of the people of Peru, specifically the Loreto region, to students in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Conference Room: Palm Ballroom Pre-function Area Meet the Presenter […]

Poster Session: ESD program considering regional vitalization through tourism resources

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview This poster session compares and contrasts the factors of the six themes of the AP World History curriculum with an emphasis on geography, climate, culture, economy, and the indigenous populations of the people of Peru, specifically the Loreto region, to students in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Conference Room: Palm Ballroom Pre-function Area Presenter Nagata Shigefumi […]

Poster Session: Unveiling Geographical Dynamics of California Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins: A Multifaceted Exploration

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview Marine biological research provides a rich source of opportunities for the development of geographical and related STEM education activities for pre-K to adult learners. In this poster, the geographic perspective is focused upon research about the California coastal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), a common cetacean species in very nearshore Pacific waters off northern Baja, […]

Poster Session: Tales & Travels: First Chapter Friday

Mission Palms Ballroom Prefunction

Overview One of my many passions in life is reading so I wanted to incorporate books into my curriculum; First Chapter Friday was born through this vision. FCF is when I read the first chapter of a new book that has a setting in the region we are currently studying in World Geography class. I’m […]

GeoCivics Education During An Election Year: Lessons for Teachers by Teachers

Mission Palms Conference Room: Xavier

Summary GeoCivics engaged teachers from across the United States in a place-based professional development in Washington DC. The K-12 teachers discussed with National Parks Rangers current changes happening within the parks to "tell the true history" of the parks, engaged with Black American historians about the history of Washington DC and it's direct connection to […]

Beyond the Description of Place: Building Geographic Vocabulary and Schema in the Classroom

Mission Palms Conference Room: Dolores

Summary Beyond the Description of Place: Building Geographic Vocabulary and Schema in the Classroom. This hands-on, 45-minute session will provide multiple activities to help teachers encourage students to engage with academic texts as well as fiction and creative nonfiction as a means of refining geographic concepts and skills. Examples will be targeted to middle and […]

Geospatial Technologies as a teaching tool – Challenges and Opportunities

Mission Palms Coference Room: Joshua Tree

Summary Interactive digital mapping platforms (NG Mapmaker, ArcGIS Online, Google Earth), and satellite imagery are powerful instructional tools that encourage inquiry-based learning. The Delaware Center for Geographic Education (DCGE), in partnership with the Delaware Department of Education and Social Studies Coalition of Delaware, has been inserting all forms of geospatial technologies into newly-developed, literature based […]

Teaching Resources about Key Processes Shaping Today’s World

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

Summary This presentation shows web-based teaching/learning resources that explain key processes of change in today’s world such as climate change. globalization, economic failures, urbanization, and the like. These short modules are academically informed but tailored to a non-academic audience. They are found at <https://davidrutherford.org/resources> Session Focus All Grade Levels | Teaching/Learning | Today's World-Changing Conference […]

Encoding Geography: Integrating Computer Science into Geography Instruction

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

Summary In the Encoding Geography Researcher Practitioner Partnership, researchers and teachers work together to explore the benefits and opportunities related to the integration of computational thinking and computer science into geography instruction. The intersection of geography and computer science connects directly to important research topics and impactful careers in many fields. These fields are likely […]