Geography is an important tool to help learners grasp nuance and context—essential components for deeper understanding no matter which subject educators are teaching. To know Tim Needles is to know an ...
Editor’s note: As teens scroll through their news feeds, catching glimpses of conflict and atrocities taking place in Syria, South Sudan, or even violence here in America, what are they learning about ...
The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...
Wordle has taken the world by storm, but now there’s a new spinoff of the hit puzzle game that gives players a chance to take the world by storm themselves. Globle is a geography puzzler that tests ...
Geography is a way of thinking, of asking questions, and of observing and appreciating the world around us. It gives us tools we need to move about in the world, to make wise decisions about our ...
Monday is Columbus Day. When I was in grade school, what they taught us about Christopher Columbus was much different than what is written about him today. We were taught that he discovered America in ...
After falling off the curriculum map a generation ago, geography has made a quiet comeback in U.S. classrooms. Still, its supporters are looking to hold on to the ground they’ve gained, especially at ...
More recently, Gibson covered Astoria and why it never became a major hub like San Francisco. We learn more about “Geography by Geoff” and how it struck a chord on social media. Note: The following ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Getting a card on Valentine's Day is always special, but what about getting 100 cards? That's what happened to a teacher and her class at Most Blessed Sacrament School in west Toledo.
Learning about geography is not only about looking at maps, as education reporter Haydn Lewis found out when he spoke to pupils at a York primary school GEOGRAPHY was never my strong suit at school, ...
Christian Ie, of Renton, recently tied for 10th place in the state Geography Bee. He finished second last year. The competition is fierce, drawing the top 100 middle-school and junior-high geography ...