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Regional Centers Bridgewater, Clark, Five Colleges Center for East Asian Studies, Framingham, Salem, Winchester, Westfield
Geography Awareness Week 2010 - theme is Fresh water. Great teaching ideas.
To be held at Bridgewater State College, Saturday November 20th. This year's theme is Fresh Water. Click for details.
Some recent programs
Geography Fair 2009 - a photo report on a very successful event at Bridgewater State College.
Workshops A Summer Institute - "Maps and their stories", at the Boston Public Library and at Bridgewater State College.
Teaching About East Asia? Here are Three East Asia Seminars !! - PAID PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES - Click HERE for details.
A day in the life in AFRICA - a 2-part workshop series at Winchester, starting 3/20.
Why teach India? a one-day conference at Harvard University, April 30, 2010.
A geography of the crossroads - a 7-part workshop at Salem State College.
Teachers traveling abroad and learning about about different countries - Tunisia, Southern Africa, Peru, India, China. Check out this non- profit organization Geeo.org
Geography Action - great teaching ideas.
Geography Bee - 2010
Teacher Consultants - National Geographic trained teachers willing to help you - Click HERE.
Lesson Plans Exemplary 1st grade lesson on Rainforests Click HERE for many more tested lesson plans.
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NEWS
(British Imperial map, 1886, Colomb) This past summer we presented a 1-week mapping institute, entitled "Maps and their stories" at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Teachers spent the time learning about how to interpret the messages of maps, historical and contemporary. Check out the report.
A Campaign to re-instate Geography Teacher Licensure. We invite you to contact DESE about placing this issue on their agenda. We need to have great geography taught in our schools.
Mission to Liberia is a great service learning project that assists development in Liberia. A great way to get your students involved in helping create a better world.
Geography Family Night is a great opportunity to involve the community. Congratulations to Robert Poirier of North Andover Middle School for organizing a great evening on Thursday March 11; he had more than 350 people at the event with geography games and prizes. Click here to view program. To be repeated, Dec 16, 2010.
2010 Geography Bee winner in Massachusetts!
Geography Bee winners in Plymouth Here is an article on the Plymouth Geo-Bee If you have a report about your school, send it to me vdomingo@bridgew.edu and I'll post it.
Carrie Monty of Westminster has had her lesson accepted by the Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education and she has a medal from the Center.
Marcie Prager of Brookline has been honored by the National Council of the Social Studies as the 2009 Outstanding Elementary Level Teacher
Judy McKenzie of Swampscott Middle School has received the Geography Teacher of the Year Award from NESTVAL, The New England St. Lawrence Valley Geography Society.
New Program for pre-service teachers (college students) interested in teaching geography.
LINKS Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Norman Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library |
