CCGE News & Events

This is Geography
Ever relied on a GPS unit or Google Maps for directions? In our modern, globally interconnected world, with a range of gadgets at our disposal, many people are becoming increasingly separated from understanding and appreciating the physical world around them — our basic geography. So how do geographers get the concept back on the map? Canadian Geographic Education and the Canadian Association of Geographers have teamed up to launch a geographic ... Full story »

Geo geniuses
With everything from lines of longitude to facts about the lithosphere filed away in their heads, top students from across the country competed in Canadian Geographic Education’s 19th annual Great Canadian Geography Challenge national finals, held live online on April 18. Michael Hao, Anzo Nguyen and Spencer Zhao took first, second and third places, respectively, and received the corresponding $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships. They beat out ... Full story »

Classroom Energy Diet Challenge Winners
This spring, nearly 1,500 kindergarten to Grade 12 classes across Canada worked to complete a gamut of energysaving challenges — and to earn a chance to win prizes — in the annual Classroom Energy Diet Challenge run by Canadian Geographic Education in partnership with Shell Canada. Congratulations to this year’s winners! Grand Prize: $5,000 for educational technology Elementary (grades K to 6) Teacher: Ms. Cheryl Kopp; Class name: “Energetic ... Full story »

Canada’s Coolest School Trip Winners
The Grade 8 students of Caronport Elementary School in Caronport, Sask., looked a little puzzled when they watched Environment Minister Peter Kent’s video announcement projected on a wall in their gymnasium this past April. But then it clicked. They’d won Canada’s Coolest School Trip, an all-expenses- paid vacation to Nova Scotia from June 3 to 7 to visit the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site and to explore Cape Breton Highlands National ... Full story »

Meeting the Challenge!
The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge (CEDC) is saving kilowatts one school at a time, and the class that trims the most could end up being Janice Shelden’s grade threes, from Prince Charles Elementary in Surrey, B.C. This year, Canadian Geographic Education and Shell Canada have teamed up with Global TV to follow one classroom as it works its way through the 25 energy-saving challenges. Already busy advocates for environmental conservation, Shelden ... Full story »

Great Canadian Geography Challenge
Quick — which of these is the only river that flows east from the Rocky Mountains: Columbia, Fraser, Skeena or Peace? Now imagine that the clock is running, and you have to answer another 49 similarly tough questions about the geography of Canada and the rest of the world. How would you do? It’s a safe assumption that most of us would score poorly (the correct answer, by the way, is the Peace River). Right now, however, 50 young Canadian geography ... Full story »