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Geography symposium 2025

Geography Teacher Sharing

Love the Geography symposium as the fraternity came together to share good practices which allow students to see the world through the geographical lens, developing observation skills, analysing trends, and understanding world issues. So honoured to hear from the Keynote speaker, Mrs Margaret Roberts, author of Geography through enquiry.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… .

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Part II: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part two of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my first blog in this series on using the “I see, I think, I wonder” routine.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. It fosters an awareness of these critical issues and encourages students to think critically and develop well-informed solutions.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

communities of geography – Connected learning gallery walk – Interrogating our instruction: Are these connected lessons any good? both analog and digital) – 5 stages of instructional evolution – Communities of interest v. How could we make them better?

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

With everything happening, I decided to take my weekly activities, add a quick description, and let AI handle the blog writing. This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

This helps me keep this blog running. I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Students have the thinking; they just need a word bank! Here’s one of a world map and one of the United States.