Cultural Geography Blog

"Geography is beautiful, it is important and it's really awesome" An excellent presentation on geography, exploration and guerrilla geography from my Geography Collective colleague Dan Raven Ellison, recorded at a National Geographic Live session.

Part of the resources that have been created for the National Geographic Education's materials for Geography Awareness Week. Proud that the Geography Collective are once again involved in creating some of the resources that are being used around the United States. We've created a range of materials that are being used by tens of thousands of students. Click this link to download a PDF of GeoBug stickers.... Logo was created by our very own Tom Morgan-Jones

One of the companies that I'm currently working with is ESRI UK. It's good to see more cross-overs with projects as Mission Explore is featured in ESRI's Fall newsletter, with a nice article written by Daniel Edelson of the National Geographic Education team. Some nice quotes: There are a small number of people out there, however, who summon up very different images when they think about geography learning. Maybe they never experienced traditional geography education, or maybe they experienced it and have completely rejected it as a model for learning. They envision activities that feel both relevant and enjoyable. These are the people we need to find and listen to, because they don't think about improving geography education by incrementally improving traditional approaches. They think about completely new approaches to geography teaching and learning. One place where you can find people like that is in the Geography Collective, a group of innovative thinkers ...

You can now download a special PDF 'version' of the Mission:Explore Food book that we've produced for the National Geographic Education team's materials for Geography Awareness Week. It focuses on the theme of Interdependence. Link (PDF download - 5Mb) It's really rather tasty....

I can finally share some news I heard about a few months ago, but which has now been made public... Daniel Raven Ellison , friend and colleague at the Geography Collective has been named as one of National Geographic's 2012 Emerging Explorers. The press release is here. Dan is given the honour alongside other 'visionary young trailblazers' around the world. The 2012 Emerging Explorers are U.S. cyborg anthropologist  Amber Case ; U.K. digital storyteller and zoologist  Lucy Cooke ; U.K. behavioral ecologist  Iain Couzin ; Mexican underwater archaeologist  Guillermo de Anda ; chemist  Yu-Guo Guo  of China; conservationist  Osvel Hinojosa Huerta  of Mexico; U.S. pilot and educator  Barrington Irving ; conservation biologist  Krithi Karanth  of India; Swiss crisis mapper  Patrick Meier ; U.S. archaeologist  Sarah Parcak ; U.S. data scientist  Jake Porway ; U.K. guerrilla geographer  Daniel Raven-Ellison ; U.S....

Earlier this year, I was involved in an exciting project with National Geographic Education in the USA as part of the Geography Collective . This led to my friend and colleague Daniel Raven Ellison spending a week at the National Council for Geographic Education  conference  in Portland, Oregon, and working with educators from across the USA. This project has been an exciting one to be involved with. It offers a range of activities which can be carried out in your neighbourhood, and earn points for completing them. Would be good for exploring local areas, local wildlife and ideas of community. These will be used across the USA for their Geography Awareness Week later in the year. You will need to have registered with TES Connect , which is free and takes a few moments. You can then DOWNLOAD THE BOOKLET as a 34 page, 13 Mb PDF and check it out. Please take a look and let me know what you think...