Geography Action! (an all-year event)

Geography Awareness Week (GAW), (November 11 to 17, 2007)

 New York's Celebrate Asia Coordinator: Darlene Lombardo [darlene.lombardo@palmaccsd.org]

NY's Geography Shirt Day is on Wednesday, November 14th Wednesday is "Wear a Geography Shirt Day". Ask your students to wear a shirt that has a picture or a name of a place on it. Help your students connect it to one of the Five Themes of Geography. Please send us a photograph of your students wearing their shirts. Print out a certificate and/or write us and we will be happy to send them a small thank you gift.

 

Celebrate Asia (Geography Action! 2007)

• Newspaper in Education Activities (The following newspapers have expressed an interest: Albany [Times Union]; Buffalo [Buffalo News]; Middletown [Times Herald Record]; New York City [The Daily News]; Plattsburgh [Press-Republic]; Saranac Lake [Adirondack Daily Enterprise];and Watertown [The Watertown Daily News]. Contact your local newspaper). Related material: Map of Asia, Letter from China, Latitude & Longitude Grid , Olympic Mascots.
• Free Asia Posters (complete the Teaching Material Form and indicate the number of Asia Posters in the message box). Activities related to the Asia Poster: Where in Asia is the Geo Kid? and Activity List.
• NYGA Lessons (Asia-related lessons from our Geography Lessons for Teachers CD): Shopping Cartology, Travel Brochure, ChinaEthocentrism, China Place Names, Interview with the Hwang Ha River in China, Japan: Impact of Curtural Diffusion on Language, Japan's Physical Setting, Monsoons,
• Geo-Games (A Kit for Planning, Promoting, and Hosting a Successful School-Based Event) Syracuse Workshop Resource Page

Celebrate Africa (Geography Action! 2006)

• Newspaper in Education Activities (one country is missing from our map...can your students find it? Answer: Eritrea.

Migration (Geography Action! 2005)

• Newspaper in Education Activities

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