Geography Is All Around Us
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The document discusses how geography education is important but often lacking. It explains that geography teaches students about how different places are connected on a global scale. The document then provides several examples of online tools and activities teachers can use to help students make real-world geography connections, such as using Google Maps for virtual field trips, blogging about different cultures, and video chatting with students in other countries. The goal is to help students become more geographically literate and prepared to live in an increasingly interconnected world.
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Geography Is All Around Us
- 1. Geography Is All Around UsSilvia Rosenthal Tolisano
- 2. Geography Is All Around Uspresented at theTeacher2TeacherConference 2010Silvia Rosenthal TolisanoGloballyConnectedLearning.comLangwitches.org
- 4. Links, Resources & Exampleshttp://langwitches.wikispaces.com
- 7. What is Geography ?
- 10. Why Geography ?
- 11. Ignorance of how the US fits into the wider world
- 12. Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?
- 13. Where is Iraq located?
- 14. Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map
- 15. Sudan is Located in Which Continent? EuropeAsiaAfricaAustraliaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAntarctica
- 16. 20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia
- 17. Where is New York Located?
- 18. 50% can’t find New York on a U.S. map
- 19. Do you Speak Another Language Fluently?YesNo
- 20. 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently
- 21. Do You Correspond With Someone outside the USA regularly?YesNo
- 22. 9 in 10 (89%) do not correspond regularly with anyone outside the US.
- 23. If it is 1 pm in Medicine Hat, Canada…… what time is it in Berlin, Germany?1:00 am, the next day21:00, the same day9:00 am, the same day15:00, the same day
- 24. As many as one third (32%) would miss a conference call scheduled with someone in another time zone
- 25. Young people in the USA are unprepared for an increasingly global & interconnected future.
- 26. Geographers recognize that EVERYTHING is connected.
- 27. How to Make Connections ?
- 28. Google Maps-Read Around The World
- 30. Google Earth- Lit Trips
- 31. Google Earth- Flight Route
- 32. Google Earth- Flight Route
- 35. Blog-Teddy Bears Around the World
- 36. Blog-Teddy Bears Around the World
- 39. Around The World With 80 Schools
- 40. Over 300 Schools Ready to Connect
- 41. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean?
- 42. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean?ArgentinaGermanyEgyptChinaUSAIsraelNew ZealandMexicoBrazilSwedenPeruSpain
- 43. Math Maps
- 45. Free Rice.com
- 47. What ?Why ?How?
- 49. Survey National Geographic- Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Studyhttp://www.myWonderfulWorld.orgGoogle MapsGoogle EarthVoiceThreadWikisBlogsSkype TwitterCredit & Resources
- 50. Twitterhttp://twitter.com/bus2antarcticaRead Around The Worldhttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105825111945158562539.00044cea8b22d2761f8ce&z=2In Search of Pachamamahttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105825111945158562539.00045af55ff2c192180b3&z=3Google Lit Trips http://GoogleLitTrips.comFlat StantleyPodcasthttp://langwitches.org/blog/2010/01/05/flat-stanley-podcast/Posterous Blog- Defining Japanhttp://grade4.posterous.com/Credit & Resources
- 51. Teddy Bears Around The Worldhttp://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/What Could It Mean? VoiceThreadhttp://voicethread.com/share/48359/Free Ricehttp://www.freerice.comMath Mapshttp://edte.ch/blog/maths-maps/Current Eventshttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101911629947022559812.0004720e3c4dadc2a9d6f&ll=10.487812,148.007813&spn=145.379686,360&z=2Around The World With 80 Schoolshttp://aroundtheworldwith80schools.wikispaces.com/Credit & Resources
- 52. Links, Resources & Exampleshttp://langwitches.wikispaces.com
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- Survey National Geographic- Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study
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