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Front row (left to
right): Phyllis Arnold (RCGS), Beth Dye (Chair), Richard Harbeck (Faculties of Education)
Middle row (left to right): Carolyn
Milano (RCGS), Lita Kaback (RCGS), Peggy March
(Atlantic), Louise Maffett (RCGS), Bob Sharpe (CAG),
Andrew Young (BC, YK), Wayne Andrew (ON)
Back row (left to right): Don McLaughlin (AB, NT), Sylvain Decelles (QC), Valerie Triggs (MB/SK/NU)
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Dates…dates…dates
February 17, 2006 -
The BC Teacher’s Association will be hosting their annual meeting in Coquitlam.
For more information and registration see www.bcssta.ca.
February 28 – June 14, 2006 -
ESRI Canada is offering free web seminars focused on how GIS
can be used in the classroom. See www.esricanada.com/events/web_seminars for more information.
March 1, 2006 -
Deadline for nominations for NCGE K-12 Distinguished Teaching Award. Go to
www.ncge.org/resources/awards/dta.cfm for
more details.
March 9-10, 2006 -
Saskatchewan Council of Social Services is having their annual conference at the Temple Garden Mineral
Spa in Moose Jaw. For more information and registration, contact Steve Variyan at variyans@yrhs.ysd.sk.ca or Marea Olafson at
mareaolafson@sasktel.net.
March 10-11, 2006 -
The Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers will
be hosting their annual meeting at Thompson Rivers University
in Kamloops. For more information and online registration
see office.geog.uvic.ca/dept/wcag/events.htm.
March 15, 2006 -
Deadline for nominations for the NCGE Excellence of Scholarship Awards for outstanding geography students.
More information at: www.ncge.org/resources/awards/esa.cfm.
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March 17, 2006 -
The Department of Geography at the University of Calgary will be hosting its 43rd annual conference. Titles and schedule of presentations will
be available at www.geog.ucalgary.ca.
March 31, 2006 -
Deadline for application to attend CMOS workshop. For more information, see article below or go to www.cmos.ca/hsworkshop.html.
March 2006 -
Géographes is a magazine published by the APGQ (Association
professionnelle des géographes du Québec). The
next two issues will include a collection of the texts of presentations
given at various conferences organized by the APGQ from 2002 to 2005.
More details are to be found on the APGQ website at apgq.qc.ca.
April 8, 2006 -
Geography Challenge Provincial level competitions held. See www.geochallenge.ca/geochallenge/provincials.asp for
specific locations.
May 1, 2006 -
Deadline for nominations for 2006 Geographic Literacy Award. For
more information: www.ccge.org/ccge/english/Awards/default.asp.
May 13, 2006 -
National Online Final of the Geography Challenge.
May 2006 - OAGEE Spring conference. Watch the OAGEE website for announcement
of the activities at this year's event. Details will be posted
at: www.oagee.org.
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Project Atmosphere 2006
The CCGE and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
(CMOS) have been invited to select a Canadian teacher to participate
in Project Atmosphere in 2006. This is a summer workshop for pre-college
teachers of Atmospheric Science topics sponsored by the American
Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) of the United States. The date of the 2006
workshop is July 17-28, 2006 at the National Weather
Service Training Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
The essential expenses for the participating teacher are paid
by AMS/NOAA, with a contribution from CMOS and the Canadian Council
for Geographic Education (CCGE). This does not include the travel
to and from Kansas City for which CMOS and the CCGE provide $300
(Canadian) each (total $600) to the selected Canadian participant.
Interested teachers can obtain information on the workshop from
the CMOS website www.cmos.ca/hsworkshop.html from
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Geography Action! 2005-2006 —
Migration: The Human Journey
I was very honoured to be chosen as one of three Canadian delegates
for the 2005/2006 National Geographic Geography Action! Teacher's
Institute held in June in Washington, DC. Human migration has always
been one of my favourite topics to teach.
For five days, a group of approximately 55 teachers from Mexico,
Canada and the United States gathered at the National Geographic
Headquarters to learn about human migration topics, the Geography
Action! Migration project and the Genographic Project – a
new project launched by National Geographic in April 2005. We were
treated to a lecture by Spencer Wells, the lead researcher in the
Genographic project. This project has the potential to revolutionize
the way we think about ancient migration patterns, and I highly
recommend learning more about the project and introducing it to
your students. For information about the Genographic Project, visit www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html .
We were given two responsibilities as teacher coordinators for
Geography Action. One was to promote the theme of Human Migration
within our region for Geography Awareness Week and the second was
to complete the Geography Action! Project with a group of students.
The project encourages students to photo document the migration
story of their community. The completed projects will be published
on the National Geographic Sense of Place interactive map. To learn
more about the project, visit www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction .
This was a very rewarding experience for me and I have really
enjoyed coordinating and liaising with teachers from across the
country and in the United States. I would highly recommend that
interested teachers visit the National Geographic Ednet website
and apply to be coordinators for next year's theme if these
responsibilities appeal to you.
Thanks very much to the CCGE for their support.
Jennifer Aung Thin (nee Lane)
2005/2006 Geography Action! Coordinator BC/Ontario
National Geographic Education Foundation
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Good news file
The executive committee of the SPGQ ( Société des
professeurs de géographie du Québec ) is organizing
its 2005-2006 competition. Go to the SPGQ website for information
and registration procedures for this competition which focuses on L'agriculture
au Québec : au-delà des champs (Agriculture
in Québec: Beyond Our Fields).
Ms. Michèle Fréchet, Chair of the SPGQ, recently
received a letter from André Simard, Director General of
the Institut de technologie agroalimentaire, in which he
announced that the Institut is offering bursaries to the
winners of the competition. In his letter, Mr. Simard's emphasized
the appropriateness of this year's theme. Prizes will also
be donated by MAPAQ (ministère de l'Agriculture,
des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec).
Details concerning this annual competition can be found on the
SPGQ's website at www.recitus.qc.ca/associations/spgq/.
Laurentian University's department of geography played an
influential role at Northward Bound, OAGEE's fall conference.
Check out their website geography.laurentian.ca for
details about their geography program. It is a bilingual site with
a good careers section.
Parks Canada operates 17 sites in Ontario. There are 5 national
parks, 1 national marine park and 11 national historic sites including
3 historical canals. Check out their website at www.parkscanada.gc.ca for
more details on these sites and details of this year's contest
for schools across Canada.
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