NATALIE WOJINSKI, A SOCIAL sciences teacher at Hercules High School, recently returned from a weeklong training in Washington D.C. to learn strategies for increasing public awareness of the need for geography education.
Humboldt State University Geography Professor Stephen Cunha, Director of the California Geographic Alliance and latter-day Marco Polo of "living geography," has won a prestigious California State University Wang Family Excellence Award of $20,000.
The California Council for Social Studies recently honored HSU Geography Professor Stephen Cunha with the Hilda Taba Award at their Annual Meeting in Oakland. Named for a renowned pioneer in critical thinking and social studies concept development, the Taba Award is the highest honor bestowed by the CCSS.
SAN MARCOS ---- Dressed in sashes made of paper or ribbons, ninth-grade boys and girls from a San Marcos High School geography class strutted their stuff in the class's first ever Mr. and Ms. former Soviet Republic beauty pageant.
Awards were given to thirty-nine K-12 teachers and ten university/college professors from the United States and Canada. The DTA Awards recognize outstanding contributions to geographic education. Colleagues submitted nominations for the awards, and awardees were chosen by judging panels at the elementary, middle/junior high, senior high or post secondary level.
EL CAJON -- Alex Dealy didn't have an ordinary hobby. When his father gave him a city map at age 7 he memorized the streets. Then, just for fun, those in adjacent cities.
My love affair with history began with a fascination for geography. As a youngster in the 1950s, I enjoyed sports and games, but was transfixed by atlases, globes, stories of the explorers, my parents' National Geographic magazines, and travel and nature programs on television.
ARCATA, Calif. - The geographic center of California has shifted to a hill at Humboldt State University, about 275 miles north of San Francisco, about five miles from the coast, just about 40.85 degrees north, 124.10 degrees west.
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