Esri’s T3G Third Thursday webinar for October, Thu 10/20, 5-6pmPT, may be of interest for some of you. It features Jim Herries, a product engineer and cartography lead for Esri. Our focus is on how educators can use ArcGIS Online to explore and understand demographic data including voting data before and after elections. This hits questions of scale, quantities, communication, representation, gerrymandering, and how educators can help people be intelligent consumers of data. The webinar is open to the public, and will be recorded, but all must be registered for the fall 2022 T3G Webinar series to access.

Go to https://t3ghub-esrit3g.hub.arcgis.com/pages/webinars to register.

After two years of COVID disruptions we are excited to announce that our annual AP Human Geography Academy is returning this fall.  The theme of this year’s academy is Spacemaking and Placemaking in the 21st Century: A Field Study of Geographic Intersectionality and is being held on October 7-9, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.

Academy activities include an augmented reality tour of Monument Avenue and walking tour of the Canal Walk through downtown Richmond, a visit to the newly renovated Virginia Museum of History and Culture, and a film screening of the documentary “How the Monuments Came Down”.  In addition, we have booked speakers from the Center for European Union, Transatlantic, and Trans-European Space Studies, the University of Richmond, and the Valentine Museum.

If you would like to attend this year’s academy, complete the registration form at bit.ly/Landscapes2022 no later than September 26, 2022.  Please share the attached academy flyer with colleagues as teachers from all curriculum areas are always welcome to attend.

If you have any questions please reach out to Stephen Chamberlin at chambsti@gmail.com or Shannon Castelo at shannon.castelo@gmail.com.  We look forward to seeing you in the fall and hope you have a great summer break!

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The Virginia Museum of History and Culture announces stipends and scholarships for their summer institutes.

Thanks to the generosity of a donor, the 2022 Weinstein Properties Teacher Institute will now include stipends for all participants in addition to a limited number of travel scholarships.

Stipend: $250

Upon successful completion of class requirements, participants will receive a $250 dollar stipend in addition to reimbursement of the $50 registration fee. Each session will be limited to 20 educators.

Travel Scholarship: $750

A limited number of travel scholarship are available for teachers that live more than 75 miles outside of Richmond, Virginia, and can be used to cover travel and lodging expenses. After registering to attend, please email mcreech@virginiahistory.org to apply. A total of 10 travel scholarships per session will be awarded

Three great opportunities to engage with two new remarkable exhibitions and other excellent resources from our friends and colleagues at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture!

Weinstein Properties Teachers Institute – The Story of Virginia , July 11th – July 15th

Weinstein Properties Teachers Institute – Our Commonwealth, July 25th – 29th

Primarily Virginia, Summer 2022, Register by June 24th

Primarily Virginia is an online course designed for K-12 teachers from around Virginia to explore Virginia’s past by examining objects and primary sources.

The Virginia Geographic Alliance is excited to offer the online, 8-hour professional development workshop, #YouCanMapThat: Using GIS to Enhance the Classroom.  It is open to grades K-12 faculty and pre-service teachers and is limited to 30 participants.  Register here

Details:
Location:  Online via Zoom

Dates:  Tuesday June 21st and Wednesday June 22nd 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

#YouCanMapThat! is a FREE Online Instructor-led professional development program that will teach you to:

• Access and utilize 100+ classroom ready 15-Minute GeoInquiries for US History, Human Geography, World History, US Government, Mathematics, Language Arts, and Earth Science
• Use web maps as a bell-ringer, a lesson plan, and/or a classroom discussion tool
• Create customized Web Maps that embed text, primary source Images, YouTube videos, and much more.  To access a sample map on the Louisiana Purchase go to: http://arcg.is/1xvC7Pg
• Register your school for a free site-license for Esri’s ArcGIS Online software

Other benefits include:

• 8 Continuing Education/Recertification Points
• free supplemental workbook and lesson plans
• access to an online Professional Learning Community
• $35.00 Amazon Gift Card for successfully participating in the workshop*.

REGISTRATION IS ON A FIRST COME BASIS & IS LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS.

Register by 11:59 PM June 15, 2022

Looking for free summer PD opportunities? Scroll down for opportunities from the Virginia Council on Economic Education (VCEE), including a session called EcoDetectives about environmental issues.

Virtual Mini-Course: Saving, Investing, & The Stock Market Game (6 hr. Asynchronous Course; Grade 4 – 12 Standards)
Dates: Cohort One: June 5th – June 18th
Cohort Two: July 17th – July 30th

Life After High School: Navigating Education, Career, & Debt (6 hr. Hybrid Course; Grade 6 – 12 Standards)
Dates: June 15th, 9am-12pm – 3 hr. synchronous virtual session
June 15th – June 29th – 3 hr. asynchronous course work via Google Classroom

Personal Finance Teacher Forum (6 hr. In-Person Program; Grade 7 – 12 Standards)
Location: VCU, Snead Hall, Room B3189
Date: June 17th, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Entrepreneurship Institute: Economics in Action (45 hr. In-Person Institute; Grade 6 – 12 Standards)
Dates: June 20th, Virtual Day (Synchronous & Asynchronous Activities)
June 21st – June 24th, In-Person, GMU Campus (Buchanan Hall, D180)

ECODETECTIVES: Using Economics & Science to Solve Environmental Mysteries (18 hr. In-Person Institute; Grade 6 – 12 Standards)
Location: Robins Nature Center at Maymont; Richmond, VA
Dates: June 21st – June 23rd, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm

Online K-5 Economics & Personal Finance Institute (25 hrs. Asynchronous; Grade K – 5 Standards)
Dates: June 27th – August 12th

Mini-Economy: Creating a Memorable Classroom Experience (18 hr. In-Person Institute; Grade 3 – 5 Standards)
Location: University of Mary Washington – Stafford Campus; Stafford, VA
Dates: July 6th – July 8th; 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Personal Finance Institute (40 hr. In-Person Institute; Grade 9 – 12 Standards)
Location: Virginia Credit Union; North Chesterfield, VA
Dates: August 3rd – 5th & 8th – 9th;  8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Visit https://vcee.org/teacher-workshops/ for more information or contact your nearest Center for Economic Education director.

The fall meeting of the VGA Steering Committee will be held in-person on Saturday, September 24, 2022, at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond. After the meeting, there will be an optional lunch and free tour of the museum.  Details (like exact time) will be forthcoming

Two of our favorite VGA members, both former VT Geography Department chairs, who have significant contributions to our organization will be retiring soon and will be honored next Monday, 4/25 at a gathering at VA Tech. Please help us by sending congratulatory cards to Jim Campbell, co-leader of the VGA 2008 London field experience for teachers, and Bill Carstensen, GeoBee Moderator/VGA Atlas cartographer for all editions/Amtrak Across America co-leader and Executive Board member. We’d love to see the VT Geography Mailbox FULL of cards for both our GeoPeeps! Please send a card to each c/o:

VA Tech Dept. of Geography
238 Wallace Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

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