Category: disaster education
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Geography Collides with Poetry and Art
I love it when curricular lines are blurred especially with the use of geography! Here’s a great resource for any week but especially Geography Awareness Week. “RIVER OF WORDS: http://www.riverofwords.org/ this site is a REALLY neat site is about “connecting kids to their watersheds and imaginations through poetry and art.” The “for educators” tab on… Read more
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AgTech Camp – Great Fun in Sweetwater, TX
We had a great day here in Sweetwater, Texas! I had the honor of doing a workshop for 20 great Ag teachers here on the Texas State Technical College West Texas campus. We talked about geospatial technologies for agriculture and the classroom. We got outside with our GPS units and mapped farms, invasive species, ponds,… Read more
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Ready for Disaster?
I love that there’s always something new in resources and enhancements for any lesson that you create! In the Rural STEM GIS lesson collection (http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem/curriculum.html) there are activities related to disasters. FEMA has created a web experience for kids (Adults and Businesses at www.ready.gov) that sends them on an adventure. http://www.ready.gov/kids/index.html There are nice ancillary… Read more