Feb+Conference

The hook:

WHAT WHEN** WHERE
 * WHO
 * WHY**
 * HOW**

Today's technology brings the who, what, when, why and how straight to our desktops. We've focused on technology that has allowed us to focus on the other 5 questions. But now the geography technology exists to help us bring the WHERE into the 21st century. Current geography technol

Present the outline. Our main focus is to present the sample lessons. We'll cover the rest as time allows.
 * 1) Lesson examples that make real world connections to TEKS
 * 2) Use geography technology to build your own lessons
 * 3) Geography lifelines
 * 4) Geography fillers

Each example includes TEKS#, free online resource illustrating real world connection

Lesson 1 K-2 //Who's that knocking on Christmas Eve?// by Jan Brett show map of Norway, show path the main character traveled in the story; show Norway on a globe Have students Think pair share cardinal direction the character travels Ask students if they will be traveling for the holidays; think pair share which cardinal direction they will be traveling show landforms of Norway; photos of Norway
 * outline maps from Houghton Mifflin Education Place?

Lesson 2 1st grade Christmas around the world- show passport North American map coloring page Europe map coloring page

Lesson 3 1st grade Change over time Pilgrims in 1620 Modern day pilgrims Native Americans 1620 Native Americans now

Lesson 4

Lesson 5 3rd grade Tall tales .pdf interactive map keynote presentation on tall tales showing characteristics of a tall tale

Lesson 3 1st grade Frog and Toad lesson National atlas online interactive map

Lesson 4 9th grade Bubonic plague interactive map activity

Lesson 5 9th grade Road in Africa project

Overplanning extra time kml other GIS presentation tools, Google Earth, google maps, ARC GIS Explorer, AEJEE Give recipe appendix for applying your own ideas using geography technology resources.
 * L drive, Feb conference electronic handouts, my blog, my wiki

20 mins secondary
 * free online historical maps, free ARCExplorer desktop software and software approval form, (Brent) learn that you can build tiles on your local machine and have a cache of data so that you don't have to stream each time; this will save on the district's network bandwidth
 * books, ESRI educators database of lessons
 * ESRI conference San Diego, JMU conference Virginia, Barbaree Duke's website and blog

20 mins questions and share 2.0 resources