The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Geography Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

You know that I’m a fan of online geography games going way back. I’ve enjoyed the games like GeoGuessr as my go-to game to refine cultural landscape analysis and map navigation skills. Below is a brief introduction to all of these online geography/mapping games.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2025

My Cultural Geography blog , which I started in 2007 while teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE (which had a cultural geography topic) is where I place posts (sometimes cross posting from here) related to cultural geography: music, books, art etc but also linked to the definition below: The study of the relationship between culture and place.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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Humanities History Archaeology Ancestry 72

Living Geography

MAY 30, 2024

The ERAS tour is heading for the UK soon, and there's plenty of geography to be had in exploring the economic and environmental impact of the tour and associated music as well as the interesting cultural implications of the event: the demographics of a typical crowd etc. Liverpool is rebranding itself as Taylor Town. It is sold out.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 18, 2025

There's a lot of geography in this news item from the BBC News on the controversies surrounding beach cabanas on Australian beaches. The beach is of tremendous cultural significance to Australians, so this is being taken seriously. However, the number of these structures is causing some problems and there are contrasting views on them.

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Living Geography

MARCH 9, 2025

Cross-posting from my Cultural Geography and Geography on / in Film blogs. I saw this film a few weeks' ago and it's well worth seeing for those who like their music. It's based around interviews with the three surviving members and taped interviews with John Bonham.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. Try greeting the children in the morning and say, "There's something new in the geography folders today. How do people live?

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. Try greeting the children in the morning and say, "There's something new in the geography folders today. How do people live?

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Geography Cultures Teaching Humanities 52

Living Geography

MAY 28, 2024

A cross posting from my Geography Teaching blog. I've developed this activity for Year 7, as part of our unit on food geographies called 'Food for Thought'. It explores the rising price of food by focussing on one meal - a classic of UK food culture. It connects with conflict, climate change, globalisation and so much more.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

” Measuring Inequality in Clay and Stone To capture economic inequality across time and geography, the research team calculated the Gini coefficient —a statistical tool commonly used today to assess income distribution—for each of more than 1,000 archaeological settlements.

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Humanities Archaeology Economics Museum 65

Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The event will investigate how landscape features such as rivers, mountains, and other natural elements function as both connectors and boundaries, shaping cultural narratives and societal interactions. The exploration of liminal spaces, such as caves and groves, that create sacred or secluded environments and their cultural implications.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

Living Geography

MARCH 16, 2025

During the tour we will delve into the stories, contexts, and interpretations of the objects on display throughout Lowther Lodge, the home of Geography on Monday 17 March at 2.30pm and 3:30pm.

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Geography Artifacts History Cultures 52

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Example: 4th Grade Geography Watch this video: 4th grade NY State Geography Using masking tape, map the outline of New York on the floor. In this way, they don’t take on the culture of anyone else, and you won’t be imitating or accidentally caricaturing others. The Audience” – participates by dancing in their seats.

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Geography Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It gets users to analyze the cultural and physical landscapes, relate a stimulus to other places on Earth, use maps at a variety of scales, etc. Guess Where You Are is an alternative to Geogussr without all the bells and whistles, but it also has no time restrictions w But I’m also a history buff and I love a good twist on a geographic game.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

The OECD PISA program is a way to compare schools internationally and has previously been particularly influential in promoting the methods used in those countries that score highly, even if they don't translate well because of cultural differences. Climate change impacts every area of society and our lives, she says.

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Geography Cultures Research 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here.

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Geography Humanities Cultures Human Rights 52

Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S.,

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Archaeology Humanities Museum Geography 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Instead, I wanted them to understand the colony’s region, its geography, and its economy. Frayer Model Activity Next, I handed out paper Frayer models where students wrote a colony name in the middle and added information about its government, geography, economy, and religion. It even provided a knowledge base for each founder!

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Geography Government History Cultures 128

Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2021

2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. He criticizes world-systems analyses as being too simplified to reflect the complexity and fluidity of the “creolization” of postcolonial culture. 1 Racialized Space.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

School districts and charter networks are facing both tremendous challenges and, simultaneously, opportunities to design and implement effective, culturally-aligned systems to support historically marginalized students. We have an unprecedented opportunity to take action.

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Charter School Geography Public School Cultures 118

O-Level Geography

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A joint effort by businesses, such as Rolex, with local communities in the preservation of our natural and cultural heritage. What are the efforts made to preserve the natural and cultural heritage in Bali, Indonesia?

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Cultures Heritage Geography 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. This places you right in the middle of the district, but is quiet and sound-proofed and once you step through the doors, the hubbub and activity of Brick Lane is gone. I'll mention them over there.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We must use this crisis to create a better and more equitable system for all learners, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, geography, or learner variability. The Digital Learning Gap existed long before the pandemic; COVID-19 just brought it to light for the general public. 84 percent of teachers said VILS enhanced student engagement.

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Geography Professional Development Middle School Cultures 140

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. There’s kind of this culture of apathy, especially where young people congregate,” said Singer.

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Geography Political Science Sociology History 134

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

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Local History Geography Education Policy Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2021

She predicts that because of the many intersecting factors impacting student success this year — geography, precarity, family situations — some students will need a lot more support next year and will struggle if pre-pandemic expectations remain in place. Bloom said that some students have not necessarily progressed the way they should.

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Geography Library Elementary School Teaching 138

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied. Extend: Encourage discussion on how this theme might be relevant in different cultural or historical contexts.

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Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

Geogramblings

JULY 26, 2024

Zoe Gilbank, the Climate Ambassadors regional hub manager for Yorkshire & Humber, joined Kit Marie for another Climate Ambassadors special episode of the Coffee & Geography podcast. A Lifelong Commitment to Sustainability Born and raised in Leeds, Zoe has always had a deep connection to her hometown.

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Geography Education Economics Cultures 68

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sakai noted, "The AI's ability to identify subtle signs of the Nazca glyphs that were previously missed by the human eye marks a significant leap forward in our understanding of this ancient culture.” The placement of the geoglyphs along pathways leading to Cahuachi further supports this interpretation. Orcas with knives. Sakai et al.,

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