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 ...

If you want to help children understand the world around them, there is no better subject to teach than geography. Sharing the beauty and science of our natural landscapes and fascinating details ...

It’s all too common to think of geography education as a rote march through cities, countries, borders, mountain ranges, and rivers. But Sarah L. Smiley, an associate professor at Kent State ...

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 ...

It’s almost impossible to go a day without using a map. We check our friends’ locations on Life360, use Google Maps to navigate a trip to the store and track our DoorDash order’s whereabouts. While we ...

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 ...

After falling off the curriculum map a generation ago, geography has made a quiet comeback in U.S. classrooms. Still, its supporters are looking to hold on to the ground they’ve gained, especially at ...

Baber gathering fossils at Mazon Creek, Illinois, 1895, during the first field class at the University of Chicago to which women were admitted. Photo from University of Chicago Photographic Archive, ...

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 3, Growing Up Rural: How Place Shapes Life Outcomes (MAY 2022), pp. 123-149 (27 pages) We use nearly 430 million ...

Which National Geographic toys are best? Everyone is familiar with National Geographic’s amazing documentaries and magazines, but they also make a lot of toys aimed at teaching children STEM skills ...