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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities

Place-Based Education uses the local community and environment as the starting place for curriculum learning, strengthening community bonds, appreciation for the natural world, and a commitment to citizen engagement.

MapMaker Interactive

An interactive mapping experience from National Geographic Education with rich layers of information on the physical earth, oceans, culture and more.

Geothentic

The University of Minnesota has partnered with National Geographic to develop this innovative GIS mapping tool for educators. The website helps teachers use real data to convey how decisions are made and better understand geographical impacts on society.

FieldScope

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 topics - both in the classroom and in outdoor education settings.

BioBlitz Education

Whether participating in a National Geographic/National Park Service BioBlitz or a local schoolyard or park bioblitz, the bioblitz experience helps students study biodiversity firsthand with activities that support students to make observations, record data, understand classification and map their findings.

Climographs: Temperature, Precipitation, and the Human Condition

In this lesson from National Geographic Xpeditions, students learn how to use and create climographs as a tool to study climate data. In doing so, they gain an understanding of the effects climate has on humans in different parts of the world.

Mapping Our Human Footprint

Using the Human Footprint data layer in National Geographic's MapMaker Interactive tool, students will discover the degrees of human impact around the world and how humans impact the physical environment.

The Perils of Plastic

Students learn about the world's largest "landfill," make a connection to their own lives, and calculate how much trash they generate in a week, a year and ten years.

Using Maps in Ocean Research

In this lesson plan from National Geographic Xpeditions, students consider a number of ocean research scenarios and determine how mapping might help answer questions related to that research.

The Geography of Ocean Currents

In this activity, students use National Geographic's MapMaker Interactive tool to learn about the movement of ocean currents and investigate how currents affect pollution events.

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