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Make Project-Based Learning an Integral Part of Your Teaching Strategies!

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Make Project-Based Learning an Integral Part of Your Teaching Strategies!

Want to learn how to implement Project-Based Learning (PBL) in your classroom? Jim Bentley, National Geographic Explorer, and Educator will present the concepts and implementation strategies for Project-Based Learning in your social studies and science classrooms. This informal session will include a presentation, a discussion, and an opportunity to hear from you!

Jim Bentley

Educator, Filmmaker, Geographer, and National Geographic Explorer

Want to learn how to implement Project-Based Learning (PBL) in your classroom? Jim Bentley, National Geographic Explorer, and Educator will present the concepts and implementation strategies for Project-Based Learning in your social studies and science classrooms. This informal session will include a presentation, a discussion, and an opportunity to hear from you!
 
You’ll leave the session with answers to the following questions:
  • What are the essential elements to include in PBL?
  • How can we find authentic ways to connect PBL in the classroom with the world outside the classroom walls?
  • How can standards and content be integrated with a PBL experience?
  • What's an example of a PBL experience that was authentic, connected with community, and taught content while developing the attitudes, skills, and knowledge of a modern-day explorer?
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Incorporating National Geographic Society Resources into Your Lessons

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Incorporating National Geographic Society Resources into Your Lessons

Learn about the National Geographic Society’s abundant educational tools for the pre-K–12 classroom—all available to you free when you’re looking for something special to complement your lessons and teaching strategies. We’ll share how to find thousands of ideas available, ranging from class activities, maps, lessons, articles, photographs, and videos. Content areas include Social Studies, Earth Science, Biology, Geography, Anthropology, and many more.

Tyson Brown

Editorial Director,
National Geographic Society

Learn about the National Geographic Society’s abundant educational tools for the pre-K–12 classroom—all available to you free when you’re looking for something special to complement your lessons and teaching strategies. We’ll share how to find thousands of ideas available, ranging from class activities, maps, lessons, articles, photographs, and videos. Content areas include Social Studies, Earth Science, Biology, Geography, Anthropology, and many more. 

Tyson Brown, Editorial Director at the National Geographic Society, will take you on a tour through National Geographic Society’s Resource Library for discoveries you’ll begin using tomorrow.

In this webinar replay, you will:
  • Incorporate photographs, video, and activities into any lesson by simply going to the National Geographic Education Resource Library;
  • Engage students to begin creating their own resource library from their backyard;
  • Create excitement by flipping your classroom lesson to a student-centered inquiry project based on authentic discoveries from the library of resources.
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Teaching History and Science Using What? Incorporating Artifacts into Your Lessons

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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.
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The New Social Studies Classroom: Making the Most of Distance Learning with Exciting Digital Resources

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The New Social Studies Classroom: Making the Most of Distance Learning with Exciting Digital Resources

Learn how to engage your students from your laptop to theirs when you can’t be together in the classroom. Explore approaches to online resources in core social studies programs to engage your students while inspiring their curiosity and igniting their passions. Connect social studies to their lives whether it’s reading a Cast Study in Human Geography, or learning about why salt has been a global commodity for hundreds of years. We’ll be joined by teachers who’ll share their own experiences and we hope you’ll stop in for a worthwhile hour as well.

Ellen Lees

Senior Director, Product Marketing at
National Geographic Learning | Cengage

Megan Fileccia

Senior Product Marketing Manager at 
National Geographic Learning | Cengage

Leading Educator Panelists

Brittany Brazzel
Social Studies Teacher, Department Chair
DeForest High School

Chris Eadie
AP® Lead Teacher, National Board Certified
Santa Fe High School

 

Learn how to engage your students from your laptop to theirs when you can’t be together in the classroom. Explore approaches to online resources in core social studies programs to engage your students while inspiring their curiosity and igniting their passions. Connect social studies to their lives whether it’s reading a Cast Study in Human Geography, or learning about why salt has been a global commodity for hundreds of years. We’ll be joined by teachers who’ll share their own experiences and we hope you’ll stop in for a worthwhile hour as well.
 
3 Key takeaways
 
In this webinar replay you will learn how to: 
  • Engage with the most current and effective tools to keep your social studies classroom relevant
  • Teach through storytelling and through the research and travels of National Geographic Explorers
  • Connect students to their own community through thought-provoking Student Inquiry projects
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Field Learning and Gamification in the Age of Virtual Reality

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Field Learning and Gamification in the Age of Virtual Reality

Join National Geographic Explorer and NASA Challenger Center Teaching Fellow T.H. Culhane as he describes his expeditions around the world to “bring sustainability home”. T.H. has met people from the poorest villages and urban slums to the richest enclaves and resorts, learning and sharing ways to “be the nexus” where healthy food, clean energy, pure water, and zero waste meet so we can thrive as one and have fun doing it! Culhane will explain how his journeys transformed his teaching practice into a three-ring “sustainability circus” of hands-on-field learning, documentary audio, and video production, as well as animated VR/AR/360 simulations where the curriculum is by and for students and teachers.

T.H. Culhane

National Geographic Explorer
and Professor at the Patel College of Global Sustainability
at University of Southern Floria, Tampa (USF)

Join National Geographic Explorer and NASA Challenger Center Teaching Fellow T.H. Culhane as he describes his expeditions around the world to “bring sustainability home”. T.H. has met people from the poorest villages and urban slums to the richest enclaves and resorts, learning and sharing ways to “be the nexus” where healthy food, clean energy, pure water, and zero waste meet so we can thrive as one and have fun doing it! Culhane will explain how his journeys transformed his teaching practice into a three-ring “sustainability circus” of hands-on-field learning, documentary audio, and video production, as well as animated VR/AR/360 simulations where the curriculum is by and for students and teachers.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Create food/energy/water/zero waste technologies and applications in the field and in the classroom
  • Teach appropriate technologies and concepts of global sustainability
  • Share the concepts of sustainability with your students through teacher and student created Geographically Precise video games.
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Teaching Human Geography and Sustainability Through Storytelling

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Teaching Human Geography and Sustainability Through Storytelling

Join National Geographic Explorer Lillygol Sedaghat as she describes her expeditions around the world to study how approaches to sustainability have changed how people live. Lillygol will describe her experience in Taiwan, a country with an advanced approach to recycling. She will also explain how the use of plastic bags has changed the way people live in Bangkok, Thailand. And join Lilly to learn about the National Geographic “Sea to Source” expedition in the Ganges which aimed to significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic that reaches the ocean, including how the Marine Debris Tracker creates litter profiles.

Lillygol Sedaghat

National Geographic Explorer

Join National Geographic Explorer Lillygol Sedaghat as she describes her expeditions around the world to study how approaches to sustainability have changed how people live. Lillygol will describe her experience in Taiwan, a country with an advanced approach to recycling. She will also explain how the use of plastic bags has changed the way people live in Bangkok, Thailand. And join Lilly to learn about the National Geographic “Sea to Source” expedition in the Ganges which aimed to significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic that reaches the ocean, including how the Marine Debris Tracker creates litter profiles.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Teach the concept of human geography through storytelling
  • Collect data in the field using different human geography approaches including semi-structured interviews, immersive experiences, and app-driven technologies
  • Share the concept of sustainability with your students through stories of plastic waste and the circular economy and receive exercises on how to encourage your students to think more about their waste footprint
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Jimmy Chin and the Tyranny of Passion: A Letter To Your Students

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Jimmy Chin and the Tyranny of Passion: A Letter To Your Students

Marcie Goodale

Product Director • Social Studies and Advanced Placement • National Geographic Learning | Cengage

Some of you may have seen the person pictured on this page, National Geographic photographer Jimmy Chin, win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in February 2019.

Jimmy is a man of many talents. He won the Oscar for producing a documentary on Alex Hannold, an American professional rock climber who had completed a “free solo” climb—meaning no ropes, harnesses, or protective equipment—of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Jimmy himself is a professional climber, skier, photographer, and now filmmaker.

As writers and editors for a World History textbook for National Geographic Learning, we have access to hundreds of National Geographic Explorers and photographers. All of them are completely brilliant and inspired and doing work that contributes to the common good either by capturing ideas and images that reveal our world to us in new ways or by using their considerable knowledge and creative skills to innovate new processes and new approaches in their fields.

When several of us were in the audience at a National Geographic Explorers Symposium in 2018, we watched Jimmy Chin talk with another NatGeo photographer about the work that they both do. He used the phrase “the tyranny of passion” and explained that the words aptly describe the way he lives his life.

Jimmy has found in his work something so fundamental to who he is, something he loves so much, that he simply can’t not do it. His work is so much a part of his thoughts, feelings, and actions that he can’t imagine a different life. Jimmy found what he wants to do with his life. He admits that he found a direction that caught him—and his family—by surprise. He’s never looked back.

The tyranny of passion. Those words have meaning for all of us.

Our message to you, then, is to know that there is something wonderful that you can do with your life, something that draws on your heart and your mind and that you will love to do. You have only to seek it.

Your ideas and your actions are important.
Share them with others.
Be heard.
And along the way, listen to others’ voices too.

From the National Geographic Learning Social Studies team

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Teaching World History Through Time Travelers: Engaging Themes and Activities for the High School World History Classroom

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Teaching World History Through Time Travelers: Engaging Themes and Activities for the High School World History Classroom

National Geographic Learning and our authors bring the world into the classroom—and bring world history alive by talking about travelers through time, including National Geographic Explorers. Join author Ken Curtis as he talks about the appeal of teaching world history (whether it’s Advanced Placement World History on on-level high school World History) by sharing experiences of travelers from thousands of years ago — and today.

Ken R. Curtis, Ph.D.

Professor of History, California State University Long Beach

National Geographic Learning and our authors bring the world into the classroom—and bring world history alive by talking about travelers through time, including National Geographic Explorers. Join author Ken Curtis as he talks about the appeal of teaching world history (whether it’s Advanced Placement World History on on-level high school World History) by sharing experiences of travelers from thousands of years ago — and today.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Explore examples of traveler's tales
  • Discover group discussion questions and classroom activities to tie culture, resources, history, economics, and geography to time travelers
  • Examine the research of National Geographic Explorers — and apply that research to today's communities
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Teaching the History of Art and Architecture with Google Earth

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Teaching the History of Art and Architecture with Google Earth

Instructors today have a wealth of technology at their fingertips, presenting new ways to introduce students to art and architecture exploration in real time. Students have the opportunity to view a wide variety of art from many cultures, influenced by geography, history, religion, and social and political climate.

Fred Kleiner, Ph.D.

Professor of History of Art & Architecture,
Professor of Archaeology,
Boston University

Instructors today have a wealth of technology at their fingertips, presenting new ways to introduce students to art and architecture exploration in real time. Students have the opportunity to view a wide variety of art from many cultures, influenced by geography, history, religion, and social and political climate.

In this presentation, Professor Kleiner will describe how bringing Google Earth/Google Maps software into all of his courses has transformed his classroom into an exciting and memorable learning experience for students at all levels. The presentation will also take the form of a how-to tutorial.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • How to bring Google Earth of Google Maps into your Art History classroom
  • Ways to integrate Google Earth into your lesson plans
  • How geo tools can engage and motivate students in their journey of discovery
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Student-Centered Learning: Exploration, Storytelling, and Inquiry

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Student-Centered Learning: Exploration, Storytelling, and Inquiry

We hear a lot about putting students at the center of their own learning, but what does that mean? And what does it take to do that? National Geographic Learning Social Studies programs bring exploration and storytelling into the classroom, inspiring students to find their own direction and share their experiences. Special features in our programs shine a spotlight on the kinds of current projects that make National Geographic a leading source of scientific discovery. Dr. Fred Hiebert, Explorer and Archaeologist-in-Residence, will share some of those discoveries and the power of those stories for students.

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Fredrik Hiebert, Ph.D

Archaeologist-in-Residence
National Geographic

Marcie Goodale, M.A.

Product Director of K-12 Social Studies and AP Social Sciences
National Geographic Learning | Cengage

We hear a lot about putting students at the center of their own learning, but what does that mean? And what does it take to do that? National Geographic Learning Social Studies programs bring exploration and storytelling into the classroom, inspiring students to find their own direction and share their experiences. Special features in our programs shine a spotlight on the kinds of current projects that make National Geographic a leading source of scientific discovery. Dr. Fred Hiebert, Explorer and Archaeologist-in-Residence, will share some of those discoveries and the power of those stories for students.

Fred, along with Marcie Goodale, Product Director for K12 Social Studies and AP Social Sciences, will talk about Student Inquiry Projects, but it’s more than that. They’ll talk about empathy and empowerment and—ultimately—agency for students.

In this webinar replay, you will:

  • Hear from a National Geographic Explorer about the value of exploration and how it translates into Social Studies programs
  • Recognize the impact of storytelling in the classroom
  • Learn about Student Inquiry Projects that give students a forum for telling their own stories