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

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is a cross-posting from my dedicated blog which covers the events linked to my Vice Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. RGS Winter Social Dec 5 on the theme of Geography and the Arts A quick reminder if you haven’t booked that the Eastern area RGS Winter Social event is coming up – on Thursday 5th December.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have also found that some simulations try to bring certain events to life that could be harmful to certain students, especially in the case of difficult historical events. Early Humans Simulation Students will learn what it took to survive during prehistoric times with this Survival Simulation!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. And so on… . We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

About the Data The data is collected through Event Duration Monitoring by individual water companies, providing near-real time data on storm overflows. Untreated sewage overflows are responsible for releasing various pollutants, including microplastics , illegal drugs , and human effluent , into the environment. million hours.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

It's a light box with coloured panels offering an A-Z of Empire with some alternative facts and rhymes about places and events linked with colonialism. Such an approach, suggest the artists, challenges popular misperceptions about the nature of Empire, stimulating debate about this important chapter of our collective human experience.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One of the features of GA Conference is the GEO Live event - which used to be called Future Geographers. Booking is now open for this year's event. 1.05 – 1.55: Voices Project – Space place and identityAn introduction to the project, its links to NEA and qualitative data, human geography. Attending @The_GA conference?

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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. Swan We understood that a set of standards in social studies would be tricky due to the names, dates, places and events that people fight about.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data. Sign up for our Action Report newsletter to learn about other Digital Promise-related conferences and events throughout the year.

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Living Geography

JULY 1, 2024

At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. One of the largest events connected with Higher Education is the RGS's Annual International Conference. This is a seriously large event. A cross posting from my new blog. 'At

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Analyzing world, continent, and country maps, students consider how natural resources and natural geography influence economies. 2 Evaluate the impact of advancements in technology, investments in capital goods, and investments in human capital on economic growth and standards of living Civics: PD.4.C.1 Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Organized by Border Crossers, a nonprofit group that trains teachers, administrators and parents how to explore race and racism, the event was led by trainers Ana Duque and Ben Howort, both former teachers. Leave this field empty if you're human: “In kindergarten through second grade, teachers are focused on getting kids to read.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

Students can tour Fort Curtis & Battery Park and see how the natural geography of the Arkansas Delta influenced how battles could be fought there during the Civil War. They also offer student competitions like an annual essay contest, a poetry out-loud event, and an Arkansas history film competition.

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Living Geography

APRIL 27, 2024

As part of a current writing project I am exploring some of the indigenous knowledge that we may look to introduce into the geography curriculum. The achievement of Lopez’s work has always been ontological before it is political; a “redreaming”, to use his verb, of the possibilities of human life. More to come on this.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Extraverts are “the life of the party,” while introverts, on the other side of the scale, require less stimulation from people or events. These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior. Rentfrow et al.,

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The heat index, also known as apparent temperature, is a measure that combines temperature and humidity to reflect how heat feels to the human body because higher levels of humidity make it harder for the humans to cool down. A key metric is the Heat Index. However, in todays climate, with 1.2C

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Humanities Research 52

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

For instance, in a history class, instead of merely memorizing dates and events, students could analyze historical patterns and their impact on current societal issues. This approach not only makes learning more relevant but also equips students with the skills they need to thrive in a world where the only constant is change.

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Dr. Preece

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Saying the “geography” of what happens will get you to the top of L2, and be a decent essay. Sometimes the factors are physical – it might work one way for fluvial floods but very differently for pluvial; or for hard rock versus soft, or constructive versus destructive boundaries etc. What can you say about it?

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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. Travel or Hobbies – Find a way to highlight your outside hobbies to humanize yourself. Here’s one of a world map and one of the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

We need to ensure that the benefits of the humanities are broadly accessible, even as students pursue more professionally oriented programs of study. These disciplines, often known as the humanities, are a part of university life now chronically undervalued and often even cut down or eliminated. And how do we make it right?”.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

This local geography of caste is more visible to me because I, too, belong to an allegedly lower caste community. According to Mukul Sharma, within such upper caste perspectives, an Untouchable or outcasteconsidered as possessing lesser human dignitydoes not fit neatly on either side of the nature-culture binary.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2025

Farming After the Fire The Neolithic Revolution has long been framed as a triumph of human ingenuity—the dawn of agriculture, of domestic animals, of sedentary villages. kiloyear event—a dramatic climate dip tied to changes in solar radiation and monsoon circulation. Humans, it is said, chose to sow, plant, domesticate.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. Every December, people ask us how severe the year's extreme weather events were. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible.

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Humanities Economics Research 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Lowell’s amped-up program goes a step beyond typical enrichment offerings, with coursework intended to prepare kids for continuing education and jobs in local and state industries that are actively hiring and projected to grow. Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

data show just how little students across America have actually learned about the nation’s history, civics and geography. At events, she led call-and-response spirituals, including her anthem, “This Little Light of Mine.”. But this issue holds national significance as well. Decades of U.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekly Update.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

He writes, “Nearly everything about the war — the start and end dates, geography, vital military roles, the home front, and international implications — looks different when viewed from the African American perspective.” Again, it’s an example of how a textbook completely leaves out voices that are vital in understanding events.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I, like so many Geography teachers, jumped on this as a learning opportunity. Looking back at the resources that I created (below), I attempted to highlight the issues surrounding human rights alongside logistical controversies such as the climate and resources. Also, has anything changed significantly in the 6/7 years since I made it?

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Geography Social Justice Humanities Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In earlier grades, students are supposed to learn how Mississippians contributed to the Civil Rights Movement and the events that happened here. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question. Mississippi: the Magnolia State.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Immediately following the Saturday, Oct. The guide , released Oct. These conversations can be conducted in age-appropriate ways beginning in first grade, Hess added.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. They are a living testament to the vast, interconnected human journey that has played out on African soil for tens of thousands of years.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. What is more, weapons testing in the regionwhich is ongoing has introduced toxic, and radioactive , materials into local ecosystems, increasing rates of cancer and birth defects in humans and other living organisms. taxpayers feel good.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 5, 2025

With data coverage spanning the entire African coastline over the last 24 years, the service is a valuable resource for monitoring and mapping rates of coastal erosion and change, evaluating the impact of coastal management, as well as modelling responses to changing conditions such as extreme weather events and human development.

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Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?”

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I’m also a member of the science communication community and the educator community, particularly the geography educators community here in the United Kingdom. Events like Pride and Black History Month matter because they remind us that we exist. You can always find me here on my blog and the Coffee and Geography podcast.

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