2015 National Conference on Geography Education Preliminary Program

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Saturday, August 8
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Tech-Enabled Field Study
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Tom Baker, Esri
Want to get your students outside? Use the new ArcGIS Online GeoForm web application and your
students’ smartphones to create and conduct custom field studies for your class!
Treasury
Landmark Game
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Terry Smith, Radford University
Landmark Game provides authentic practice for developing skills and competencies in social studies,
history, literacy, math, and science. Students are also developing their competencies with academic
content: collaboration, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, technology skills, and
global awareness. Because this learning experience is situated in project form, all levelsof students
can participate toward individual and group goals, while the teacher facilitates, monitors, and assesses
the learning.
Rayburn
Quick, Cheap and Easy: One Period Activities for the AP Classroom
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Liz Bash, Geographic Alliance in Nevada
I will demonstrate a variety of hands on classroom activities which require little in the way of computer
technology, use only low cost materials and which can be implemented in a single class period but
which provide much in the way of student engagement and learning opportunity
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Saturday, August 8
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HS
Inquiry
Commerce
Zombie-Based Learning: Using Geography Skills to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
David Hunter, Zombie-Based Learning
David Hunter, founder of Zombie-Based Learning, will share strategies of building inquiry into
geography using a zombie apocalypse. Learn to improve student engagement while activating
higher-order thinking. This workshop will demonstrate how to use this narrative to meet rigorous 2012
<strong>National</strong> Geography standards and give students real-life geography skills.
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Content
Hart
Tortoises, Penguins, and Sea Lion, Oh My! A Journey to the Galapagos.
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Dennis Rees, Arizona Geographic Alliance
Come and learn about a unit of study created by a 2007 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. Participants will
view the unit and learn how to access it online.
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