Geographic education

[kmusser]

The deplorable state of American's geographic knowledge is well known. At the conference Gil Grosvenor's plea was for us to do something about it personally. To illustrate the power of doing so he brought out a group of high school kids who had been inspired by one science teacher who had gone to one National Geographic class and their work in mapping caves has gone in to Glacier National Park's conservation plan.

So, I know a bunch of you have small children now, I'd strongly encourage you to supplement our schools non-existent geography education. To that end if you'd like me to visit and do an occasional geography class for the kids I'd be glad to do so (or maybe even get some of them together - we could do a field trip).

Some resources:
National Geographic education resources including teaching plans: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education:
http://www.macalester.edu/geography/mage/resources/index.htm#publications