National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum
25 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326
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Get ready for Opening Day with Geography Lessons from The Baseball Hall of Fame
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Baseball's Opening Day is next Monday, March 31st and if your looking for classroom ideas the Baseball Hall of Fame has geography lessons that can help.
Their current unit,
has lessons for all grade levels that take students to visit some of baseball's most famous stadiums while learning about geographical concepts such as direction, scale, regions, transportation and population.
Click the link below to to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame's curriculum page to learn more.
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2014 National Conference on
Geography Education
Abstract & Awards Deadline Extented to April 10, 2014
You now have until April 10, 2014 to submit an abstract for the 2014 National Conference on Geography Education. No abstracts will be considered after that date.
Also, do not miss an opportunity to highlight the good work of your colleagues or yourself. The 2014 Award nomination deadline for the following awards has been extended until April 10, 2014 as well.
-Distinguished Teaching Award K-12
-Distinguished Teaching Award Higher Education
-Geographic Excellence in Media (GEM) Award
-Herff Jones Nystrom Lesson Plan Award
-Natoli Dissertation Award
-Outstanding Support for Geography Education
-Women in Geographic Education Scholarship
Learn more about the NCGE Awards
Submit a 2014 Abstract
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Join us on April 7 for the next Live NCGE Webinar:
GIS for History
Presenter: Anne Knowles
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2014
Time: 8:00 PM EST (Webinars start at 8pm)
About: GIS has become a creative platform for historical research ranging from environmental and economic history to the history of war, social conflict, literature and the arts, and many other subjects. This webinar will focus on three projects that illustrate how GIS can be used for spatial analysis and visualization to open up new veins of research: the industrial revolution in 19th century America, the battle of Gettysburg, and the Holocaust during World War II.
Click here to register for this webinar
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MAKE YOUR NCGE 2014 HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Make your 2014 NCGE conference hotel reservations now and save! NCGE has negotiated special discounted room rates with the Peabody Memphis for all 2014 conference attendees.
Learn more
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TEACHING AND LEARNING SEMINAR FOR EARLY CAREER FACULTY & GRADUATE STUDENTS
Learn more about this exciting one day seminar taking place during the 2014 National Conference on Geography Education.
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NCGE 2014 EXHIBIT, ADVERTISING, AND SPONSORSHIP OPTIONS AVAILABLE
Access hundreds of teachers, professors, education leaders, and decision makers by exhibiting at the 2014 National Conference on Geography Education.
Learn More
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NCGE JOURNALS
Issue 1 is packed with good material including John Strait's article, "Experiencing Cultural Geography in the Birthplace of the Blues." Read this to get ready for Memphis. As a reminder, there will be 4 issues of The Geography Teacher starting in 2014.
Peview Issue 2 - a special issue on Geography and Media Literacy - online.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
Highlights include:
- Skills for the Digital Earth MOOC
- Cuban Culture & Society: Summer K-12 Teacher Institute in Cuba
- 2014 Study Canada: Summer Institute for K-12 Educators
- Thinking Geographically about International Issues: A Choices Leadership Institute Program from Brown University
- Attention World Travelers from the NCGE Community
- Publish your work in an NCGE Journal
View the complete listing
NCGE MEMBERS
Log in to your NCGE account to verify or renew membership, update personal information, indicate journal preferences and access webinar archives.
Need Help: [email protected]
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The People's Guide to
Spatial Thinking
by Diana Stuart Sinton
with Sarah Bednarz, Phil Gersmehl, Robert Kolvoord, and David Uttal.
Spatial thinking is an activity that we do throughout our lives and across many settings, to understand problems and seek solutions. This book will help you understand what spatial thinking is, how it works, and why it is important for the world.
Order your copy
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The National Geography Standards
2nd Edition
The revised and updated version of Geography for Life: National Geography Standards (1994) is now available. This revised edition features restructured content and a new format. Each standard is presented through four components: an introductory essay; knowledge statements; performance statements and examples. Geography for Life, 2nd edition is only available in the NCGE store.
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by Jody Smothers Marcello
Engaging Students in Constructing an Understand of Human Geography: The lessons in this publication are designed in facets important to success in AP Human Geography
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