MapMaker, developed by ESRI and National Geographic, continues to evolve! Join us to see the most recent updates. Explore how your students can gain an understanding of the world’s most crucial issues, challenges, and historical context of place.
Keeping up with MapMaker, Deepen Science and Social Studies explorations!
MapMaker, developed by ESRI and National Geographic, continues to evolve! Join us to see the latest updates. Explore how your students can gain an understanding of the world’s most crucial issues, challenges, and historical context of place.
What’s New with MapMaker? Enrich Classroom Science and Social Studies Explorations
National Geographic MapMaker, developed by Esri and National Geographic, is a mapping application that uses the latest in GIS software to connect social studies and science classrooms with essential technology for exploration. Created specifically for students and educators, MapMaker is easy to use, free to access, is browser-based, and usable on most laptops and tablets. Learn about MapMaker and how your students can gain a better understanding of how the world’s most crucial issues, challenges, and opportunities fit into the context of place.
Empowering Student Success: Instilling Confidence in the Science Classroom and Beyond
National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage Group, and Kognity collaborate to bridge “achievement gaps” in the educational resources market. Together we are bringing high-quality, modern and engaging learning experience to high school science classrooms. With Kognity, educators can more easily drive academic achievement and success on high-stakes assessments by tracking student performance and usage of the digital platform. Kognity provides both educators and students with high-quality, engaging materials that improve students’ exam readiness.
Explore the Power of MapMaker to Fuel Your Science and Social Studies Classrooms!
National Geographic MapMaker, developed by Esri and National Geographic, is a mapping application that uses the latest in GIS software to connect social studies and science classrooms with essential technology for exploration. Created specifically for students and educators, MapMaker is easy to use, free to access, is browser-based, and usable on most laptops and tablets. Learn about MapMaker and how your students can gain a better understanding of how the world’s most crucial issues, challenges, and opportunities fit into the context of place.
Achieving Equity-Mindedness and Meaningful Inclusion in Biology Lessons
Achieving Equity-Mindedness and Meaningful Inclusion in Biology Lessons
The need for student identification and belonging in the scientific community begins in the biology curriculum. This requires equity-mindedness and meaningful inclusion that supports equitable classroom practices and equity science content and pedagogy. This presentation focus’ on the rationale and benefit to teachers and students for developing equity-mindedness for meaningful inclusion. These lesson ideas and strategies are supported by the 3-dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards.
Dr. Catherine Quinlan
Associate Professor of Science Education
Howard University
The need for student identification and belonging in the scientific community begins in the biology curriculum. This requires equity-mindedness and meaningful inclusion that supports equitable classroom practices and equity science content and pedagogy. This presentation focus’ on the rationale and benefit to teachers and students for developing equity-mindedness for meaningful inclusion. These lesson ideas and strategies are supported by the 3-dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards.
In this webinar replay, you will:
- Learn about the connection between identification and belonging and equitable classroom practices and science content
- See examples from curriculum resources that bring equity into the biology classroom
- Get ideas for including equity-based phenomena and diverse real-world scenarios
Real World Forensics: How to Identify 9/11 Victims Using STR Profile Analysis
Real World Forensics: How to Identify 9/11 Victims Using STR Profile Analysis
Use inexpensive DNA teaching models to help students understand the structure of DNA, chromosomes, genes, and STRs (Short Tandem Repeats). Engage students through phenomenon-based learning to solve the identity of a 9/11 victim using STR profile analyses of the victim, two young boys, and their mother. Observe how to present the STR profile analysis so that it is easily understood by all students. This activity uses the historical event of the 9/11 attack to integrate biology, history, technology, and math while focusing on a human-interest story.
Anthony “Bud” Bertino
Patricia Nolan Bertino
Trainers, co-authors of
Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations
Use inexpensive DNA teaching models to help students understand the structure of DNA, chromosomes, genes, and STRs (Short Tandem Repeats). Engage students through phenomenon-based learning to solve the identity of a 9/11 victim using STR profile analyses of the victim, two young boys, and their mother. Observe how to present the STR profile analysis so that it is easily understood by all students. This activity uses the historical event of the 9/11 attack to integrate biology, history, technology, and math while focusing on a human-interest story.
In this webinar replay, you will:
- Observe the use of inexpensive models to facilitate DNA instruction.
- Observe how to present and analyze STR profiles using familial genealogy.
- Review and receive multiple teaching resources including an activity worksheet, Teacher Notes, Student Learning Objectives, Outlines and Lesson Plans for immediate use with your students.
Teaching History and Science Using What? Incorporating Artifacts into Your Lessons
Teaching History and Science Using What? Incorporating Artifacts into Your Lessons
Bring the world into your classroom! Join Bill, Mark, and Andrea in this lively session where they’ll explore how to use actual artifacts to teach science and history. The artifacts may be represented in the textbook and digital program you are using or you may have an artifact at home from your travels. Material culture adds a dimension to learning that cannot be replaced by the written word. Let us demonstrate how to teach a lesson with artifacts from afar or from your own community — or your own home.
Dr. William Parkinson
Curator of Anthropology
Field Museum, Chicago, IL
National Geographic Society Grantee
Andrea Kingman
Exec. Product Marketing Manager
National Geographic Learning | Cengage
Mark Hoffman
Senior Product Marketing Manager
National Geographic Learning | Cengage
Bring the world into your classroom! Join Bill, Mark and Andrea in this lively session where they’ll explore how to use actual artifacts to teach science and history. The artifacts may be represented in the textbook and digital program you are using or you may have an artifact at home from your travels. Material culture adds a dimension to learning that cannot be replaced by the written word. Let us demonstrate how to teach a lesson with artifacts from afar or from your own community — or your own home.
In this webinar replay, you will leave with these fresh ideas:
- Create a lesson around historical or scientific objects, providing their background and what they show about the world around them from their era;
- Design a written inquiry project to encourage curiosity about things students may never have considered or observed;
- Help students discover science and history in their own community and in their own home by asking each student to bring in an artifact that represents their culture.
Collecting Data On Hummingbirds and Myself – Students Can Too!
Collecting Data On Hummingbirds and Myself – Students Can Too!
Anusha Shankar has spent 9 years studying how hummingbirds manage their energy and their time. In the process, she started collecting data on herself – especially her moods and what they were influenced by, and her time and how she allocated it. Anusha thinks collecting information systematically on yourself can give you insight that is difficult to get any other way. And this might be a way students can learn more about themselves and their connection to the world around them! Anusha will share her hummingbird research with students in National Geographic Learning’s upcoming high school Biology program launching in late 2022.
Anusha Shankar
National Geographic Explorer, Rose Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Anusha Shankar has spent 9 years studying how hummingbirds manage their energy and their time. In the process, she started collecting data on herself – especially her moods and what they were influenced by, and her time and how she allocated it. Anusha thinks collecting information systematically on yourself can give you insight that is difficult to get any other way. And this might be a way students can learn more about themselves and their connection to the world around them! Anusha will share her hummingbird research with students in National Geographic Learning’s upcoming high school Biology program launching in late 2022.
In this webinar replay, you will:
- Learn how hummingbird physiology relates to species adaptations in changing environments
- Connect lesson ideas to NGSS Life Science standards
- Understand how stories from diverse National Geographic Explorers can help students master high school biology concepts
Teaching Phenomena-Based Earth Science Using the Geology of Yellowstone
Teaching Phenomena-Based Earth Science Using the Geology of Yellowstone
In this session, we explore a wide variety of earth science phenomena and how to apply these to high school earth science lessons. We tour Yellowstone’s unique geologic system and consider how it can form the basis for phenomena-based lessons that will meet several high school Next Generation Science Standards.
Marc S. Hendrix
Professor of Geology, University of Montana
Author, National Geographic Earth and Space Science
In this session, we explore a wide variety of earth science phenomena and how to apply these to high school earth science lessons. We tour Yellowstone’s unique geologic system and consider how it can form the basis for phenomena-based lessons that will meet several high school Next Generation Science Standards.
This session includes an overview of the Yellowstone Volcano and other natural hazards including earthquakes, hydrothermal explosions, and extreme wildfires. We examine glaciation, surficial deposits, and the impact of recent and ongoing climate change on the park’s ecosystem. We also look at the thermophilic microbes and what they can tell us about life on other planets. You’ll get access to real-time datasets of seismicity, thermal activity, and hydrologic changes within the park.
In this webinar replay, you will:
- Get lesson ideas and strategies to meet specific NGSS Earth Science standards
- Receive suggestions for using Yellowstone National Park for phenomena-based lessons
- Become familiar with a variety of publicly-available datasets that can form the basis for labs from the National Geographic Earth and Space Science program