Geography skills play a significant part in forming connections with a greater world that is bigger than our own backyard. Engage students by making geography real and tangible by creating connections for and with them.

1. Geography Is All Around Us Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

3. What ? Why ? How?

5. Cultural geography

6. Physical Geography

8. Ignorance of how the US fits into the wider world

9. Are you Smarter than a 5 th Grader?

10. Where is Iraq located?

11. Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map

13. 20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia

14. Where is New York Located?

15. 50% can’t find New York on a U.S. map

17. 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently

19. 9 in 10 (89%) do not correspond regularly with anyone outside the US.

21. As many as one third (32%) would miss a conference call scheduled with someone in another time zone

22. Young people in the USA are unprepared for an increasingly global & interconnected future.

23. Geographers recognize that EVERYTHING is connected .

24. How to Make Connections ?

25. Google Maps- Read Around The World

26. Google Maps- Storytelling

27. Google Earth- Lit Trips

28. Google Earth- Flight Route

29. Google Earth- Flight Route

30. Wiki- Time Zone Experiences

31. Blog- Defining Japanese Culture

32. Blog- Teddy Bears Around the World

33. Blog- Teddy Bears Around the World

34. Skype- Video Conferencing

35. Skype- Video Conferencing

36. Skype- Video Conferencing

37. Skype- Video Conferencing

38. Skype- Video Conferencing

39. Skype- Video Conferencing

40. Skype- Video Conferencing

41. Around The World With 80 Schools

42. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean?

43. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean? Argentina Germany Egypt China USA Israel New Zealand Mexico Brazil Sweden Peru Spain

44. Scholastic- The First Thanksgiving

45. Free Rice.com

46. What ? Why ? How?