Hug the Earth

ED 3120 Teacher Candidate Students Hugging our world

Geography Awareness Week
3rd Week of November....

Use this time to explore our world.......



The theme for this year is: Declare your Interdpendence!
The theme is designed to focus on the idea that we are all connected to the rest of the world through the decision that we make on a daily basis like the foods we eat and the things that we buy!

Thinking about global relationships make it easy to bring activities into the classroom that focus this idea withing the 5 themes of geographical knowledge:   

• Location
• Place
• Relationships within places
• Movement
• Regions

Also keep in mind the 6 elements of geographical standards:

1. The world in spatial terms
2. Places and regions
3. Physical Systems
4. Human Systems
5. Environment and Society
6. Uses of geography

Barbara and Sam playing the geography game

Our Social Studies Class played a question and answer game on geography--what a great way to involve students, work together, have fun and learn along the way!!

Some useful resources for global teaching and learning:

The National Geographic Site: is a wealth of information for lessons, activities, games and much more focused on the 2012 geography awareness theme.

Teacher Vision: Contains geography printables, lessons, resources,  activities and mapping resources

GIS Education Community: Educators help students to use Global Information Systems to explore their world from a local to global scale.

"Without geography, you're nowhere"

                                                               -Jimmy Buffett