KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University alumnus Kevin Barry, B.A.'06, is the recipient of the 2024 James B. Binko Award for Outstanding Geography Educator-of-the-Year. Established by the Maryland ...

Did your teacher ever pull out a map or globe and teach you about the countries of the world? For many American students, the answer is no. As a result, fewer and fewer students have a general ...

Ten years ago at a convention in Baltimore, Lydia Lewis, who teaches U.S. history to fifth graders at a private school in Washington, met what she described as a bright, college-educated young woman ...

The field of geography education has evolved from a traditional focus on rote memorisation of facts and map skills to a dynamic discipline that interweaves scientific analysis with humanistic insights ...

Geography is an exciting, interdisciplinary field that uses cutting-edge technology to explore places and the relationships that people have with the environment that surrounds them. For people ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

More recently, Gibson covered Astoria and why it never became a major hub like San Francisco. We learn more about “Geography by Geoff” and how it struck a chord on social media. Note: The following ...

The professor picked up a pointer, waved it at a world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the ...