An English Teacher’s Guide to Mapping: Part 2 of 4, Context & Setting
Check out the latest installment in the English Teacher’s Guide to Mapping video series on YouTube! This video focuses on teaching context and setting using geospatial tools!...
View ArticleAn English Teacher’s Guide to Mapping: Part 3 of 4
The next installment is in! Have a look at the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lig70Y-ZqOY&list=FL6MOEPeLgU4e7KBGvvyJA8Q&index=1&feature=plpp_video One more video coming your way...
View ArticleOh the Places You’ll Go: Poems about Places and more
National Poetry Month is just two days away! So often my students had challenges connecting with iambic verse, haiku rules and lofty language. It doesn’t have to be that way. Poetry is art and...
View ArticleInteresting Facts: Authors, Words and Books
Thanks to a recent email from a friend who knows I love cool and quirky facts, I found yet more…cool and quirky facts from the fun folks at Mental Floss. Some of these could be excellent fun as we...
View ArticleOh Canada!
Happy Victoria Day to our northern neighbours! (That’s a day celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday with merriment and festivities!) I have the honor of hearing many great geographers and scholars in my...
View ArticleShakespeare Goes to Camp T3G
As part of my week of fun at Esri’s #esrit3g week, I made a quick map to share a bit of Shakespeare. http://bit.ly/13VbjcM So for all you literature fans, here’s a quick little peek at Shakespeare....
View ArticleStory Maps #3: Using Esri’s Story Maps to Address Common Core Reading Standards
Reading and thinking are skills that we expect students to master and hone throughout their education careers and beyond. Good readers and thinkers are lifelong learners. As a former English teacher,...
View ArticleGIS: A Poet’s Tool
The world of GIS and data may seem like an unlikely tool for your reading, literature or writing class but with a little creative wit you can invent some great connections with data tools....
View ArticleGet Inspired! at TCEA 2014
Thanks to everyone who is joining me today at the first ever TCEA ELA/SS Academy! Resources from Earth Wind and Fire_TCEA 2014 Resources from Teaching English Language Arts with GIS More cool...
View ArticleJohn Steinbeck and His Novels
I’m often asked the question, “Do you have a GIS lesson for …..?” These come in many varieties and I keep a running list of those requests. One came today from a colleague, who was sure that I had...
View ArticleEsri EdUC 2014: GIS for Common Core
Each year, I’m challenged to continue creating resources and materials that are relevant and useful. Last summer, I debuted my correlation between using Story Maps from Esri to using in Common Core...
View ArticleGoing Places
Thanks to the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators for hosting me at the Mighty Maps workshop! For the teacher, here’s a PDF of the presentation, GIS for Common Core and Special Needs_LGA2015. Happy...
View ArticleOh the Places You’ll Go: Poems about Places and more
National Poetry Month is just two days away! So often my students had challenges connecting with iambic verse, haiku rules and lofty language. It doesn’t have to be that way. Poetry is art and...
View ArticleInteresting Facts: Authors, Words and Books
Thanks to a recent email from a friend who knows I love cool and quirky facts, I found yet more…cool and quirky facts from the fun folks at Mental Floss. Some of these could be excellent fun as we...
View ArticleOh Canada!
Happy Victoria Day to our northern neighbours! (That’s a day celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday with merriment and festivities!) I have the honor of hearing many great geographers and scholars in my...
View ArticleShakespeare Goes to Camp T3G
As part of my week of fun at Esri’s #esrit3g week, I made a quick map to share a bit of Shakespeare. http://bit.ly/13VbjcM So for all you literature fans, here’s a quick little peek at Shakespeare....
View ArticleStory Maps #3: Using Esri’s Story Maps to Address Common Core Reading Standards
Story Map Index for the 10 Common Core Reading Standards Reading and thinking are skills that we expect students to master and hone throughout their education careers and beyond. Good readers and...
View ArticleAmerican Literature GeoInquiries are HERE!!!
To say that I’m excited about this release is a gross understatement! In total we’ll have 15 of these short, map-based activities that enlighten the study of commonly taught American Literature works...
View ArticleWhere’s that book?
After spending the spring semester working on the American Literature GeoInquiries™ and being a general map and book nerd, I loved seeing this story map by Susan Straight that shows the location of...
View ArticleNCGE 2017 – Peace and War: Visualizing the Geography of War in Literature and...
Explore maps and activities that connect literature, history, and geography. We use online mapping tools to help students explore the importance of place to better understand works set in historic...
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