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New Year, New MGA Activities
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2016 promises to be a great year for the Michigan Geographic Alliance with the introduction of our Family Geography Night Kit and our first ever Geofest! We are also preparing to support educators with the possible shift in Michigan Social Studies Content Expectations.
By continuing our strong partnerships with higher education institutes in Michigan and around the globe, we will to continue to expand opportunities to provide high-quality geography education to students around the state.
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Family Geography Night is Back
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All new, the Family Geography Kit includes everything you need to host a dynamic event to get students and families excited about geography and its importance in our increasingly global world. Kits may be borrowed from the MGA for only $75 to help offset the cost of shipping and handling.
Click here for more information
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Wilson Middle School's Verizon Innovative App Challenge team, sponsored by MGA teacher consultant Jenna Purdu, just won Best in State for middle school app design. Students used a map of Wyandotte parks to analyze their relative location to main attractions within the city. The app will allow users to locate parks as well as report maintenance issues within the parks.
Voting for fan favorite is until 1/31/16. Help them win by texting pop2 to 22333.
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This one-day Geography based Social Studies workshop is aimed at helping teachers navigate and implement the new GLCEs. There will be both upper elementary and middle school tracts.
More information will be posted on our website and on our facebook page as it becomes available.
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Feedback on the NCSS National Standards for the Preparation of Social Studies Teachers is being solicited from CUFA members, state consultants, NCSS auditors, and social studies teachers. You can access the survey at
www.bit.ly/ncssteacherprep
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For more information about this call for comments, please visit the NCSS website here.
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Upcoming Events:
Audubon Summer Workshop
The National Audubon Society is looking for Teachers from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds for this exciting annual program.
- Designed for science and non-science educators to generate exciting ideas for creating and incorporating environmental education activities into your curriculum.
- Inspiring and experienced instructors will share their favorite approaches, methods, and activities for engaging you, and your students, with nature.
- Workshop presentations and guided field trips on the island using techniques in field biology, art, music, photography, theater, journaling, and other disciplines.
TO APPLY: E-mail letter of interest along with the names and contact information for two professional references to Camp Director Pete Salmansohn at
[email protected]. Awards are given on a rolling basis, so early application is strongly suggested. For details, photos, and videos about the camp, visit
hogisland.audubon.org.
Esri Visualize Your Water Challenge
Are you a high school educator in the Great Lakes Basin or Chesapeake Bay Watershed? Help your students prepare to enter the Visualize Your Water Challenge. Submission deadline is February 3, 2016.
The challenge is seeking creative and compelling visualizations of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes Basin states*. From your local stream to the entire watershed, high school students are challenged to tell the story of nutrient pollution in their region in creative and innovative ways using mapping tools. The challenge launch is only a month away - review Getting Started Guide and Frequently Asked Questions online today!
This challenge is hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Observing Systems and Esri (contributor of GIS mapping software to K-12 schools under the White House ConnectED Initiative) with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Education in support of the work of the Challenging Nutrients coalition.
Eligible states: Deleware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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