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Geography Awareness Week: November 11-15, 2024

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Geography Awareness Week is supported by access to materials and resources for teachers, parents, community activists, and all geographically minded global citizens.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 13-17, 2023

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Geography Awareness Week is supported by access to materials and resources for teachers, parents, community activists, and all geographically minded global citizens.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 14-18, 2022

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Geography Awareness Week is supported by access to materials and resources for teachers, parents, community activists, and all geographically minded global citizens. Here are excellent web resources to promote your geography lessons (click headings for more links): 2-minute geology. Digipuzzles. Geography Activities—for teachers.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 15-19, 2021

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Geography Awareness Week is supported by access to materials and resources for teachers, parents, community activists, and all geographically minded global citizens. Here are excellent web resources to promote your geography lessons (click headings for more links): 2-minute geology. Digipuzzles. Geography Activities—for teachers.

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How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community

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Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. When my 7 th graders sold me on the educational value of Minecraft (an online simulation that teaches geology, minerals, problem solving) at recess, I polled 4 th graders to see who used it.

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Wonderful Online Museums and Sites for Virtual Field Trips to Use in Class

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The Astronomy and Geology galleries include meteorites, comets and geology." Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display". The Louvre The Louvre is a great art museum that covers over 10.000 years of history.

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The Importance of 3D Printing in Education

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In general, 3D printing has numerous advantages and in education, one of its biggest advantages is producing scaled models of objects that are simply not accessible in other ways. Also, 3D printers bring a “cool” technical aspect to a subject which most students traditionally find stale and boring.

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