Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

I started work on a few related documents and thinking. Just before 6pm I joined the Zoom room ahead of presenting at an RGS Teachmeet on Embedding careers in the geography curriculum. Where Can Geography Take You? I also did some work on a BBC project which is just starting. Read it here. It's a bumper edition.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, studies show that exposure to content-rich subjects like history, geography, and science strengthens reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skillsessential components of long-term literacy success.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

While the domestication of Felis catus is a well-documented phenomenon in the Near East and Europe, China’s feline history followed a different trajectory—one where a native wild cat briefly occupied human spaces before being replaced by an imported species. Science Advances , 7(0221). 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S., Jamieson, A.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

To do that, I took the primary sources straight out of the textbook and ran them through Claude AI with a simple prompt: “Keep the primary sourceness of these documents but make them so 8th graders can understand them.” The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. She selected 75 teachers from nine states to represent the range of demographics, geographies and union strength within the U.S. She was an expert in teachers’ working conditions and the pandemic presented some interesting new ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Entrepreneurs are building on this knowledge to build breakthrough innovations that improve learning. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? The text above is taken from this document.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. Then, over time, C3 gained momentum in all the right ways.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. These methods helped students break down complex historical concepts into simple, creative outputs.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog : 'At the Home of Geography' - bookmark it now and visit it regularly. Details: Join us for a dynamic and interactive evening celebrating the intersection of art and geography, where creativity meets exploration. I am going to be attending this event as part of the RGS's EXPLORE festival.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Via my At the Home of Geography blog. Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation over the difference that geography makes.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In particular: We know that many in education feel the geography curriculum at GCSE is overloaded. We often hear from young people that the geography curriculum is not relevant to them and the world they now live in. We often hear from young people that the geography curriculum is not relevant to them and the world they now live in.

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Geography Economics Government Education 52

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. As you'd imagine, we are preparing to submit evidence and support the consultation for the new curriculum review to discuss what we hope to see in a future curriculum with respect to the geography entitlement and the nature of what is studied. (PDF

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In particular: We know that many in education feel the geography curriculum at GCSE is overloaded. We often hear from young people that the geography curriculum is not relevant to them and the world they now live in. We often hear from young people that the geography curriculum is not relevant to them and the world they now live in.

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Geography Economics Government Teaching 52

Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

BBC News Mundo's Agustina Latourrette and Gonzalo Caada travelled there to document the relocation process. Driven by rising sea levels and overcrowding, 300 families from this indigenous community have become Panama's first official climate refugees.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He has worked to train teachers and students and also create some policy documents which he shared on a link. They really are rather good. He talked about how no school can afford to ignore AI and hope it will go away. My friend Richard Allaway works at the International School of Geneva on one of their campuses.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan 52

Living Geography

MARCH 12, 2025

Can be downloaded from the links above - a brief 15 page document. Youth Shadow Panel Interim Report was published in January. It was chaired by Amira Campbell, the President of NUS UK.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. From April until August, Perry marched them through documentation requests, often meeting them in the school parking lot before entering the darkened building to use the copier in the main office. She closed, at 1 a.m., She is from Clinton, Missouri (pop.

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Education High School Library Geography 143

Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

For the avoidance of doubt all references to education in this document refer to education of compulsory school-age students in any setting.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Under-counting is a problem often associated with certain groups and geography — children who may be homeless, the 25 percent of children living in hard-to-reach places and immigrant families who may fear being targeted. This wouldn’t be the first time that the under-counting of young children entered the census process.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to research, document, interpret and present the heritage of the people of the Arkansas Delta. This mission is carried out through activities in four areas: Interpretive exhibits, public presentations, educational programming and documentation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The NAEP test implies and the MAP test directly documents that children continued to get better in reading and math during the pandemic. We also looked at different combinations of race, income and geography. Students haven’t regressed. It’s not that individual children used to know how to read and then stopped being able to read.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Picture Walk A picture walk is a pre-reading activity where students will take a look or a “walk” through the documents of a unit. These documents can include images, maps, charts, diary entries, or other primary and secondary sources. History, Geography, and International Baccalaureate History of the Americas.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Analyzing world, continent, and country maps, students consider how natural resources and natural geography influence economies. 1 Analyze historical documents and events that set the ideological foundations for the U.S. Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2 Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EDM.1.E.1

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Social Studies Interactive Notebook-Geography Some of the geography activities in the social studies interactive notebook include types of maps, landforms (shown below), the seven continents, and hemispheres (shown below). symbols (digital version shown below).

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Social Studies Geography Government Economics 52

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.” Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. But participants in our study, “ Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub ,” say they do not feel that way yet.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. “Too This was December.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The program also accepts Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participants and students who lack citizenship documentation. The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. People don't understand how these students come in,” Castineyra says.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. We engage with our students as equals with us in devotion to the truth and to understanding the documents we study as their authors understood them. “The Peters agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Andrew Koricich: There are a lot of rural institutions that have sort of been struggling for a while, and you drop the Covid pandemic in the middle of that, which, you know, I think we’ve seen documented so many ways that the rural impacts were just qualitatively different than they were in urban areas. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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Education High School Government Economics 130

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This would allow both the “expert groups” and the “Jigsaw groups” to document and share their learning. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating traditional ethnographic methods with those from classic ethology, geography, and the humanities, I answer novel questions related to the co-production of multispecies conviviality. Ethology was an invaluable tool used to document and interpret javelina behaviors.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Here’s the basic problem from the perspective of someone who uses R Markdown as an interface to pandoc, and ultimately a wrapper for a LaTeX document designed with my syllabus template in {stevetemplates}. One approach is to make some in-text citations that can then be formatted as a bibliography at the end of the document.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

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. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes.

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