To prepare our young people, we owe them a high-quality geography education. When you hold a pencil, you hold the world in your hands. Its raw ingredients make a far-reaching journey around the globe, ...

Geography as a school subject is under pressure. There aren't enough qualified teachers and it loses out to other subjects in school. In many countries, important aspects are left out of the curricula ...

Discover 100 Jaw Dropping Geography Facts Nobody Taught You! Explore Earth's extreme landforms, ocean mysteries, and bizarre ...

In response to the opinion blog post, “Do Students Still Need to Learn Geography? ” (Jan. 27, 2026), I agree that students need some basic locational knowledge, but I think the bigger point about ...

With respect to Rick Hess’ Jan. 27 opinion blog post, “Do Students Still Need to Learn Geography? ”, I appreciate his support for the importance of learning basic geography. That said, to reduce ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.” He said it during a discussion about climate ...

Geography is the study of people and place. It is a wide-ranging discipline. Geographers are interested in how natural processes, people and systems are affected by the specifics of a place—location ...

This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of Geography and Urban Planning through the lens of threshold concepts. Geography integrates the study of people, places, and ...

How many of these geography mistakes have you made? When’s the last time you looked at a map or atlas? No, not punching in a location and getting directions from Google Maps. A real, bonafide map of ...