Celebrate geography all year long. Join fellow educators for an engaging session exploring how geographic thinking can enrich learning across subjects. Discover connections to the National Geography Standards, explore a ready-to-use lesson featuring AAG resources, and collaborate with other educators to consider ways to bring geography into your classroom year-round. After the session, stay to connect with similar educators on how lessons and ideas can be used in their classrooms.
This session is intended for all geographers and educators interested in implementing geography topics and thought in their classrooms. Whether you’re a future educator, high school teacher, community college instructor, geographer, or teacher educator, participants will gain an understanding of geography, and practical ideas and resources for making geography meaningful, relevant, and engaging.
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Modality: Virtual, held on Zoom.
Accessibility: AAG is committed to making this workshop accessible to all participants. Closed captioning will be provided. Participants with additional accommodation needs will be able to share specific requests in the registration form.
Number of seats: No limit
Recording: This workshop will be recorded.
Code of Conduct: The workshop will follow AAG’s Professional Conduct Policy and Procedures and AAG’s Event Policies to ensure a respectful, inclusive, and productive environment. All participants must agree to these policies during registration.
Registration
How to register: You will need an AAG account: either a free Explorer account or a Member account by selecting the “Join” link in the upper righthand corner of the website. Make sure you are logged into your AAG account, then register for the workshop.
Fees: Free for all attendees.
Speakers
Dr. Mary D. Curtis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake specializing in social studies and geography education. Her teaching and research connect geospatial technologies, place-based inquiry, environmental learning, and teacher preparation. Her work prepares educators to help students think geographically, investigate meaningful issues, and take informed action.
Cadey Korson is Professor of Geography at St Clair County Community College in Michigan and Fellow of Advance HE. Her research focuses on place-based pedagogies, Indigenous rights and digital storytelling/mapping. These interests have resulted in a variety of transdisciplinary projects, including The Spatial Awareness Project short film and podcast series on land use classifications in Aotearoa New Zealand, working with Indigenous peoples to co-create digital StoryMaps that embed cultural and ecological knowledge, exploring perceptions of social license to operate in the agrifood sector, and documenting the social impact of conservation volunteerism. Recently, Cadey has been awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society to coordinate a student-led streambank restoration project along the Belle River in Columbus County Park, as a National Geographic Explorer.