GEOGRAPHY EDUCATORS’
NETWORK OF INDIANA
NEWSLETTER
Volume 110, Issue 2
Inside this issue:
Competitions/Awards
Educator opportunities
Events
Featured Geographer
Lesson Plans/Activities
Resources
National Environmental Education Week
Our nation's water and energy resources are increasingly important topics
of discussion, not just in the news, but also
10-11 in classrooms and homes. Recognizing the
importance of conserving both water and
2+
energy to protect the planet and reduce
costs—and acknowledging the connection
NA
between water and energy—the theme of
9 Environmental Education Week 2010 (EE
Week) is be water and energy wise.
In addition to EE Week's library of
2,3,6
resources and curricula on water and energy, there is also a new resource page for
1,6-7
What’s the Buzzzzzzz?
Special Points of
Interest:
Summer Professional
Development pg. 11
Indiana Geographic Bee
State Finalists pg. 6-7
NGS launches web-based
mapping, analysis, and
collaboration tool pg 8
Earth Day 2010, April
22nd pg. 3
Spring 2010
It’s ―Bee Time‖ once again, with both
the Spelling Bee and Geographic Bee
spring-time events. The top qualifiers are
poised and ready to battle it out for the
state title and an invitation to the national
competition.
If you take a look at the statistical
breakdown of those top 100 qualifiers, you
will see the usual distribution. And each
year, we are asked why so few girls? Are
boys that much better at geography in
grades 4-8 than girls? The National Geographic actually commissioned a study in
1996 to try and ―figure out‖ why so few
girls were qualifying for the Geographic
Bee Finals.
The answer as to whether boys are
that much better than girls is no. Roger
Downs, an author of the Gender and Geography Study, concluded that there exists
educators on the water-energy connection.
The connection is complex, but it provides
an excellent opportunity to get young people thinking about the interrelatedness of
ecological and environmental concerns.
Take advantage of special offers when you
register today for EE Week, April 11–17:
eeweek.org.
2010 Bee Finalists Stats
Gender Breakdown:
Boys = 87
Girls = 13
Grade Breakdown:
4th = 0
5th = 3
7th =27
8th = 60
6th = 10
School Breakdown:
Public = 61
Homeschool = 5
Private = 34
Private School Breakdown:
Non-Faith Based = 5
*Faith Based = 29
*[Catholic = 23; Lutheran = 4;
Other Christian = 2]
Continued on page 5
NEWSLETTER
GENI Board of
Directors 2009-2010
James Speer
Board President
Indiana State University
Terre Haute
Tom Jones
Board Vice President
Taylor University, Upland
Rick Bein
IUPUI, Indianapolis
Lou Camilotto
McCutcheon High School
Lafayette
Karen Grimes Cooper
Indianapolis
Catherine Dean
Chesterton High School
Chesterton
Tim Gavin
Volume 110, Issue 2
Calendar of Events
Apr. 9—Indiana State Geographic Bee
to be held at IUPUI 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Contact Kathy Kozenski, (317)274-8879/
[email protected], for details.
Apr. 14-18 – Association of American
Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. For more information, visit
www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010.
Apr. 30-May 1—GENI planning meeting. Contact the main office if interested
in attending.
May 8—National History Day Contest
in Indiana at the University of Indianapolis. For more information, visit the Indiana Historical Society website.
June 21-24—GENI 4-Day Intensive
S um m e r F i el dw ork I nst i t ut e
Page 2
(geography basics). Location will be in
Goshen and offers 2 graduate credit
hours. Page 10
June 23-July 2—International Economics Education Workshop. Page 11
June 25—Multicultural Indiana:
Teaching About Hoosier Diversity.
Page 11
July 7-15—IU International Studies
Summer Institute. Page 11
July 7-16—General Economics Education Workshop. Page 11
July 12-23—Teaching with Primary
Sources: Using ―American Memory.‖
Page 11
July 19-28—Personal Finance Education Workshop. Page 11
Penn High School, Mishawaka
Bill Hale
Chandler
Roger Jenkinson
Taylor University, Upland
Kathleen Lamb Kozenski
GENI Executive Director
Indianapolis
Joe Ladwig
Lighthouse Christian Academy
Bloomington
Tim Lehman
Bethany Christian Schools
Goshen
Susan Marquez
North White High School
Monon
Melissa Martin
Cicero
Doug Marvel
Spatial Marvels, Indianapolis
Rebecca Milam
Hamilton County Homeschool
Scott Royer
McCutcheon High School
Lafayette
James Schmidt
Penn High School, Mishawaka
Hilary Johanson Steinhardt
GENI Director, Indianapolis
Joyce Thompson
White River Valley High, Linton
Gloria Wilson
Farrington Grove Elementary
Terre Haute
Resources
Green Reading for Educators—
explore different philosophies on environmental education from NEEF
Green Reading for Kids—incorporate
environmentally themed reading into
lessons and activities from NEEF
Pictometry Aerial Imagery—browse
through examples of breathtaking aerial
imagery. From monuments to mountains, the bridge between function and
art becomes that much closer.
History of Early Earth in Banded
Rocks—strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and
elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past,
offering clues to the environment of the
early Earth more than 2 billion
years ago.
National Geologic Map Database—
USGS search engine.
The Weather Channel Kids—teachers
can benefit from wealth of resources.
Log in and make use of lesson plans or
have your students use the site for numerous learning activities.
EarthLabs for Educators—provides a
national model for rigorous and engaging Earth and environmental science
labs.
World Water Facts—share with your
students, signature not required.
MoonWater?—radarprobe finds craters
of water ice.
IRIS—Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, great section for
educators and students.
Quakespotter—3d visualization of
earthquakes occurring around the
world, as well as news and information
from the United States Geological
Survey, Google, and Twitter.
Seismic Monitor—allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time,
visit seismic stations around the world,
and search the web for earthquake
or region-related information. You can
also view seismograms and make
dataset requests via its WILBER interface.
Earthquakes for Kids—from the
USGS with everything from history to
animations
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40th Anniversary of Earth Day
History of Earth Day
Earth Day -- April 22 -- each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental
movement in 1970.
Among other things, 1970 in the United States
brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent
of fiber optics, "Bridge Over Troubled Water,"
Apollo 13, the Beatles' last album, the death of Jimi
Hendrix, the birth of Mariah Carey, and the meltdown of fuel rods in the Savannah River nuclear
plant near Aiken, South Carolina -- an incident not
acknowledged for 18 years.
It was into such a world that the very first Earth
Day was born.
Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide
environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national
agenda. " "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it
worked."
Events:
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas
through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out
smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly
accepted as the smell of prosperity. Environment
was a word that appeared more often in spelling
bees than on the evening news.
Earth Day 1970 turned that all
around.
On April 22, 20 million Americans took
to the streets, parks, and auditoriums
to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Denis Hayes, the national coordinator, and his
youthful staff organized massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil
spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of
wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly
realized they shared common values. Read on
Websites:
EarthWeek—April 17 through April 24, various
events around Bloomington
Earth Day Network website
Northwest Indiana Earth Day—Saturday, April
17th; 10am-3pm at Sunset Hill Farm County Park in
Valparaiso
The Nature Conservancy website
Z’GreenFest—Sunday, April 18th; 1pm-4pm at
Zionsville Town Hall, Zionsville
Earth Day Indiana website
Party for the Planet—Sunday, April 18th at Mesker
Park Zoo, Evansville
Earth Day Indiana Free Outdoor Festival—
Saturday, April 24th; 11am-4pm at White River
State Park in Indianapolis
United States EPA website
The Wilderness Society's website
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Geography Action Finale!
The World Tour for the Geography Action! Program
makes it’s final stop this fall in Oceania. After 2010, the
program will be ―retired‖ and converted into a curriculum
program to support the NGS growing suite of tile maps,
with an emphasis on teaching about mapping in the classroom. Previous years Geography Action! materials are
currently available on the GA! website. This site will
eventually become part of the soon-to-launch redesigned
NGS Education website.
Materials and resources for
―Oceania‖ are still in the design
phase so stay tuned for the final
piece of this world curriculum! GENI will
once again host Geography Action!/GAW
workshops this fall. Visit the GENI website
under ―National Geography Awareness
Week‖ for materials on past themes and
posting of Fall 2010 events.
Geography Awareness Week 2010
It’s never too early to start planning for National Geography Awareness Week, which arrives the third week
of November every year. The National Geographic Society has already announced this year’s theme. See below.
The theme of Geography Awareness Week
(GAWeek) 2010 is…drum roll, please…freshwater! We
are excited to take you on a journey exploring the geography of our world’s freshwater systems.
As we gear
up for the third week of November, we’ll spend the coming months gathering the best resources we can find for
learning about this fascinating topic at school, at home,
and in the community. There will be maps: brand-new tile
maps focused on world water systems, print maps, and
online interactive maps. There
will be books,
games, and quizzes. And, of
course,
there
will be opportunities to get involved conserving fresh water.
But you can start right now! Our GAWeek 2010
theme supports a larger National Geographic initiative
protecting Earth’s most vital resource. You can navigate
water online through National Geographic’s freshwater
portal.
Remember Waterworld, that Kevin Costner film? Me neither; it was a famous box office flop. But that
doesn't change the fact that we live on a blue planet. We humans, especially, need fresh water to survive and thrive—our bodies are made up of approximately 60% water, and we use it every day for food,
energy, sanitation, and more. Yet, just one percent of the Earth's water is available as usable fresh water. Learn more below and find five new ways to reduce your use.
TEST YOUR WATER SENSE
Remember Pac-Man®? Test Your Water Sense is a fun computer game modeled after the
1980s classic, which teaches children about water conservation. Players must avoid waterwasting monsters Drip Drip, Drainiac, Swirly, and Sogosaurus as they navigate a maze. At
each of four water spots—sink, toilet, sprinkler, and water glass—kids have to correctly answer questions about water conservation to proceed. Play with your child, and help him or
her be a water winner!
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The Buzzzz continued from page 1
only a small difference between girls and boys performance levels in geography at that age; however, that small
difference becomes magnified through the progression of
the competition.
―Downs told the television news show National Geographic Today, if you start at the school level and you
have slight differences between boys and girls, and pick
the best, you are more likely to have boys than girls. You
do the same thing all over again at the state level, pick
another student. Do it a third time at the national level
and you end up with what seems an incredible difference,
but the difference starts out as being very, very small.
Read entire Article
So while we will only have thirteen girls participate
in the Indiana Geographic Bee this year out of one hundred qualifiers, reassure you female students that the difference between them and their counterpart in geography,
is only a small one
Dear Indiana Geographers,
I am Dagmar Budikova, and I am currently serving a three-year term as the Regional Councilor of the
West Lakes Division to which Indiana belongs. One of AAG's recent initiatives is to reconnect with geographers who may work "alone" within programs in higher education in a university, a 2-year or community
college, private or public. The AAG is referring to such individuals as Stand Alone GEographers (SAGEs).
Over the next several months, we would like to collect information that will help build a database of stand
alone geographers across our region for the AAG, and obtain a list of geography programs offered at 2year and community colleges. We at West Lakes will use this information to build a website that will contain an interactive map that will show where geography programs/teachers in higher education are located, information that may have important use in areas such as student recruitment. More importantly,
however, the database will help us keep you updated on relevant happenings at the AAG.
The AAG and our division would greatly appreciate your help in this initiative and would like to ask that
you forward your name, contact information including e-mail address, affiliation including home department, and teaching responsibilities to [email protected]. Feel free to share this message with anyone
across the West Lakes Division (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and the Michigan
Peninsula) whom you may know to be either a stand alone geographer, or in a 2-year or community college teaching geography.
Thank you for considering our request and for your participation.
Sincerely,
Dagmar Budikova, PhD—Regional Councilor, West Lakes Division of the AAG
Department of Geography-Geology
Illinois State University
[email protected]
206 Felmley Hall of Science
Ph: 1-309-438-7643
Normal, IL, 61790-4400
Fax: 1-309-438-5310
(Alphabetized by City)
Spencer Martin
Anderson Christian School
Anderson
Charles Pasanen
Clay Middle School
Carmel
Kyle Kirk
St. Mary Catholic School
Crown Point
Jacob Walters
Memorial Park Middle School
Fort Wayne
Benjamin Hayes
Saint Mary of the Assumption
Avilla
Kenneth Smith
Creekside Middle School
Carmel
Andrew Foy
Concord JR High
Elkhart
Jacob Schall
Most Precious Blood School
Fort Wayne
Mark Bode
Avon Middle School North
Avon
Tony Powers
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Carmel
Richard Gerst
Christ the King
Evansville
Aidan Ford
Concordia Lutheran
Fort Wayne
Issei Kobayashi
Avon Middle School South
Avon
Christopher Styx
Hanover Middle School
Cedar Lake
Nathan Egler
St. Joseph School
Evansville
Emmy Zhang
Mt. Vernon Middle School
Fortville
Drew Grossman
Batesville Middle School
Batesville
Connor McQuillen
St. Patrick School
Chesterton
Tristan Kitch
Oak Hill Middle School
Evansville
Garrett Jones
Highland Hills
Georgetown
Eric Cecil
Shawswick Middle School
Bedford
Jacob Hopkins
Chesterton Middle School
Chesterton
Kyle Boom
Evansville Lutheran School
Evansville
Hannah Gellman
Greencastle Middle School
Greencastle
Jared Bond
Bloomfield JR/SR High
Bloomfield
Nicholas Mitch
Northside Middle School
Columbus
Louis Sun
Tyler Mundell
Hamilton Southeastern JR High St. Michaels Catholic School
Fishers
Greenfield
Amy Cohn
Jackson Creek Middle School
Bloomington
Jack Hauersperger
Stewart School
Columbus
Kyle Pratt
Riverside JR High
Fishers
Max Greene
Center Grove MS Central
Greenwood
Joshua DeJong
Monroe Co. Home Educators
Bloomington
Eva Yezerets
Southside Elementary School
Columbus
Jason Feuerstine
Fishers JR High
Fishers
Cameron Orr
Hartford City Middle School
Hartford City
Thomas Cattani
University Elementary School
Bloomington
Emily Lewis
Northridge Middle School
Crawfordsville
William Fairfield
Suburban Bethlehem Lutheran
Fort Wayne
Raymond Puntillo
Our Lady of Grace School
Highland
Adam Putnick
St. Michael School
Brookville
Cvete Karamacoski
Robert Taft Middle School
Crown Point
Joel Brenneman
Woodside Middle School
Fort Wayne
Caleb Stuckey
Ft. Wayne Area Home Schools
Huntertown
Meghan Carpenter
Carmel Middle School
Carmel
Abigail Eineman
Colonel John Wheeler MS
Crown Point
Kevin Shaw
St. Vincent De Paul
Fort Wayne
Jonathan Beason
The Oaks Academy
Indianapolis
Continued on next page
Mitchell Watkins
Nativity Catholic School
Indianapolis
Kelly Barr
Kesling Middle School
LaPorte
Corbin Kucera
St. Michael School
Plymouth
Benjamin Pettus
Terre Haute Home Educators
Terre Haute
Jonathan Kopp
Myles Gilsinger
Our Shepherd Lutheran School Lincoln Middle School
Indianapolis
Logansport
Ian Bardwell
Lincoln JR High
Plymouth
Troy Borlick
Benjamin Franklin MS
Valparaiso
Chad Qiar
Sycamore School
Indianapolis
Jeff Cosenza
West Middle School
Martinsville
Ian Markham
Nativity of Our Savior School
Portage
Cameron Smith
Clark Middle School
Vincennes
Danny Getz
Christ the King
Indianapolis
Jeremy Montano
Krueger Middle School
Michigan City
Gage Mosson
North Harrison Middle School
Ramsey
Lennon Ratliff
Lakeview Middle School
Warsaw
Jacob Ney
St. Pius X School
Indianapolis
John Wigren
Northridge Middle School
Middlebury
Jacob Hall
St. Augustine School
Rensselaer
Matthew Sparks
Washington JR High
Washington
Max Magid
The Orchard School
Indianapolis
Dominic Giannuzzi
John Young Middle School
Mishawaka
Adam Lyons
Western Middle School
Russiaville
Gytis Kriauciunas
West Lafayette JR High
West Lafayette
Collin Sweeney
Cardinal Ritter JR/SR High
Indianapolis
Jacob Baylor
Covenant Christian School
Mishawaka
Daniel Herschel
St. Matthew School
South Bend
Kristopher Rye
Happy Hollow School
West Lafayette
Darby Conner
Craig Middle School
Indianapolis
Ben DeLisle
Delta Middle School
Muncie
Caroline Peterson
St. Joseph Co. Home Sch.
South Bend
Adam Frasz
Montessori School of Westfield
Westfield
Andrew Eggert
New Augusta Public Acad. N.
Indianapolis
Ian Clark
Wilbur Wright Middle School
Munster
Paul Byszewski
St. Joseph Grade School
South Bend
Nicholas Bonine
St. Maria Goretti
Westfield
Carley Berg
Redeemer Lutheran School
Kokomo
Will Stueve
Northwood Middle School
Nappanee
Kassidy Vangundy
St John the Baptist
South Bend
Christopher Lowry
Yorktown Middle School
Yorktown
Adam Dinkledine
Noah Johnson
Tipton/Howard Co. Home Educ. Brown County JR High
Kokomo
Nashville
Aaron Blackman
Lanesville JR/SR High
Laconia
Jolie Blevins
New Harmony School
New Harmony
Kory Cummings
Southwestern Middle School
Lafayette
Jay Erkilla
Castle North Middle School
Newburgh
Austin White
East Tipp Middle School
Lafayette
Jacob Hoogenboom
Noblesville Middle School
Noblesville
All 100 qualifiers have been inJeremiah VanAuken
vited
to compete April 9th, for the
Christ the King Catholic School
state title and a trip to the national
South Bend
competition in Washington, DC.
This event is open to the public.
Jimmy Lyons
However, seating is limited during
Sunman-Dearborn MS
the preliminary round of the competition and any necessary tieSt. Leon
breaker round is closed to all
spectators.
The final round,
Zachary Hughbanks
where the top ten finalists battle it
Sullivan Middle School
out, will be in a lecture hall with
Sullivan
plenty of seating. If you are interested in attending, visit the GENI
website for a copy of the event
Peter Davis
Woodrow Wilson Middle School schedule.
Terre Haute
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Project Overview
National Geographic FieldScope is a web-based mapping, analysis, and collaboration tool designed to support geographic investigations and engage students as citizen scientists investigating real-world issues - both
in the classroom and in outdoor education settings. FieldScope enhances student scientific investigations by
providing rich geographic context - through maps, mapping activities, and a rich community where student
fieldwork and data is integrated with that of peers and professionals, adding analysis opportunities and
meaning to student investigations.
NG FieldScope
uses cutting-edge technology to make interactive mapping
and geospatial data analysis tools accessible to students
via the web in an intuitive package that is free and does
not require software installation.
enables students and classrooms to upload their own field
data - including quantitative measurements, field notes,
and media, such as photos - and to see it in relation to
data from peers and professional scientists.
fosters collaborative sharing and analysis of data among
the FieldScope community and beyond.
National Geographic is partnering with groups - across a
range of scientific disciplines - that are interested in exploring
how FieldScope can better support student geographic learning and outdoor investigations.
FieldScope Online Training
National Geographic Education Programs
would like to invite you to an online training on how to use the NGS FieldScope
tool. Below are the dates and times for the
next scheduled webinars. We will spend
the first half hour of each training taking
you through the software, and the last half
hour on Q&A. We welcome both beginner
and advanced users. To sign up, simply e
-mail [email protected] with "Request to
join Online FieldScope Training" in the
subject line. We hope you can join us!
Upcoming training times: Tuesday,
April 6th, 5 p.m. EST
Chesapeake Bay FieldScope
The Chesapeake Bay FieldScope Project is a "citizen science" initiative in which students investigate water
quality issues on local and regional scales and collaborate with students across the Bay to analyze data and
take action. Chesapeake Bay FieldScope is a project of National Geographic's Education Programs in collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office.
For more on the Chesapeake Bay FieldScope project, visit the National Geographic site here.
BioBlitz Indiana Dunes
FieldScope is part of the 2009 Bioblitz - a project of National Geographic, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore/
National Park Service, and Encylopedia of Life. For more on Indiana Dunes and the 2009 Bioblitz, visit the
National Park Service, National Geographic, and Encyclopedia of Life.
Watershed Dynamics, Module 1
A project of the GLOBE program that uses FieldScope to enable students to investigate their own watershed
in order to understand the flow of water through the watershed, how human activities within the watershed
both depend on and impact its hydrology, and how land use changes can affect the plant and animal communities in the watershed.
Mapping Our Parks
This project has students use FieldScope to investigate land use impacts on streams within national parks of
the National Capital Region. It is a collaboration of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, National Geographic, the Alice Ferguson Foundation, and the National Park Service.
It’s Spring! A perfect time to focus on the environment! Get your students outside exploring their own natural habitat!
Whether you have your students Grow a Garden in a Glove, GPS their school
grounds, or take water quality measurements in your outdoor learning lab, get them
out for some fresh air and reenergize their critical thinking skills!
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Other lesson ideas:
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Objective:
To research and chart the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe.
Materials for each team:
copy of "Voyage Around the World" student handout (HTML)
world map, globe or atlas, with a scale
small tacks, pins or self-stick notes (for marking locations)
a 12-inch piece of string (for measuring distances)
Complete Lesson Plan
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Nasca Line Activity
Create your own giant Nasca drawing like the ones on the desert
plateaus in Peru. Print out a pattern from the website or create
your own on your school blacktop.
K-2 Land of the Inca
Introduce students to the ancient Inca people and the land on which they lived. Learn basic facts about the
Inca and be able to show where they lived on a map. Look at pictures of the Andes mountains and Inca ruins
and discuss the geography of the area.
3-5 Unwrapping Mummies
You are a famous archaeologist who specializes in ancient mummies. You've been asked to study two very
different mummies: one from an Egyptian tomb and another from the Andes Mountains in Peru. Use the
clues provided by each mummy to decipher who they were, how they died, and what their cultures were like.
6-8 Land and Lifestyle of the Inca
Explore the geography of the Inca Empire and consider how geography affected the Inca way of life, from
government to agriculture to transportation; consider how geography affects your own way of life and discuss
the reasons geography may not be as influential today as it was in ancient times.
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Census 2010 is here! Make sure your students are aware!
BACK TO BASICS
SUMMER GEOGRAPHY
INSTITUTE
FOR: Grades 3-12 Educators
If interested K-2 teacher, contact GENI Office
WHEN: June 21-24, 2010
WHERE: Goshen, Indiana
REGISTRATION FEE: $25 GENI Members/$50 non-members
2 Graduate Credit Option offered through IUSB—GENI will provide a $200 fee
remission to help off-set tuition costs for those taking the credit.
Participants must provide own transportation to and from Goshen/workshop
site.
Some Highlights Environmental Studies (Landuse Progression, Streambank Studies, etc.)
Field Work with Flora and Fauna, including Trapper Reenactment
Connecting Past, Present, and Future Geographical Perspectives
Orienteering, Topo Maps, GPS
Night Hike and Celestial Navigation
Requirements:
Visit to Merry Lea Nature Center
Attendance for all 4 days of the Institute
Registration Fee includes:
Overnight accommodations (cots inside 2
nights and tents outside 1 night)
All meals and snacks from breakfast on
Monday through lunch on Thursday
All equipment and transportation needs
once on site (bring your own sleeping bag
and pillow)
Participation in all activities, including field
work, canoeing and camping (1 night)
All participants will submit a new resource to
GENI from approved list (ie-lesson plan with
book review, powerpoint, podcast, etc.)
Those taking the 2 graduate credit option will
have additional requirements (contact GENI
Office for details)
Resource materials to take back to your
classroom
SPONSORED BY THE GEOGRAPHY
EDUCATORS’ NETWORK OF INDIANA
Visit www.iupui.edu/~geni for a
registration form.
Abbreviated List Below
Details on Each Program
GENI Summer "Back to Basics" Field Experience
June 21-24 / Goshen, Indiana
IU International Studies Summer Institute
July 7-15 / Bloomington, Indiana
IUPUI Center for Economic Education Workshops / Indianapolis
International Economics (3-12) June 23-July2
General Economics (K-12) July 7-16
Personal Finance Economics (K-12) July 19-28
Indiana Center for Economic Education: Energy, Economics, and the Environment
June 7-11 & 14-18 / Muncie, Indiana
Workshop: Stories of Courage: Children of the Civil Rights Movement
June 22 – 24 / Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Multicultural Indiana: Teaching About Hoosier Diversity
June 25, 2010 / Indiana State Museum
Workshop: Egypt: Beyond the Past
June 29 - July 1 / Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Teaching with Primary Sources: Using "American Memory"
July 12-23, 2010 / IUPUI
Workshop: ScienceWorks: Making Science Work in Your Classroom
July 20 – 22 / Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Congress in the Classroom®
July 26 - July 29 / East Peoria, Illinois
Workshop: Anne Frank and Other Stories of the Holocaust
July 27 – 29 / The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Chinese-American Cultural Bridge Center
12- and 15-Day Educators Trips to China
Global Exploration for Educators Organization:
Programs to Tunisia, Peru, Southern Africa, China and India
Primarily Teaching: Summer Workshop on Using Historical Documents in the Classroom
July 13-17 / Chicago: National Archives Regional Facility
Periodically check the GENI website for additional summer opportunities to be posted.
Geography Educators’ Network of Indiana
IUPUI-Geography CA 121
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140
(317) 274-8879; [email protected]
http://www.iupui.edu/~geni
www.iupui.edu/~ghw [Geography & History of the World]
www.iupui.edu/~gst [Geospatial Technologies]