Differentiating in Your Geography Classroom
Presenter: Mary Crampton
Audience: Intermediate and Middle School
Strategies for Differentiation in heterogeneous classes -- target at middle level, but also good for upper elementary and some HS classes. Participants will learn specific strategies requiring varying degrees of preparation. They will practice and implement strategies during the session.

Minnesota-Canadian Connections
Presenter: JoAnn Trygestad
Audience: Intermediate, Middle and High School
Canada, eh? This presentation will provide resources, materials, and activity ideas to demonstrate the linkages between Minnesota and Canada, our neighbor to the north. Information on teaching Canadian Studies will also be provided.

Show What You Know - Geography and Nonfiction (Part 1)
Presenters: Ann Hoehn and Paula Verstegen
Audience: Primary, Intermediate and Middle School
Alternative ways of assessing student learning in geography through nonfiction. Keep students actively engaged in learning while meeting geography and reading standards.

Making Population Real (Part 2)
Presenter: Erin Bowley, Population Reference Bureau
Audience: High School
Explore population movement and natural hazards in the Gulf of Mexico. Students: identify patterns of population change in areas with a history of major storm risk; evaluate the human and economic costs of natural disasters; explore why people move to vulnerable locations; and examine the impact of tropical storms

Engaging Youth in Community-Based Projects
Presenter: Ken Pekerak, GIS4Schools
Audience: Primary, Intermediate, Middle and High School
See how teachers are using Geographic Information and Global Positioning Systems to solve real world problems. Learn how to use a curriculum that meets state and national geography standards. Sign up for a Firewise in the Classroom Institutes and you can access to a complete Mobile GIS Lab to use in your classroom at no charge.

Incorporating GPS Technology Into the Classroom
Presenter: Chris Pouliot
Audience: Primary, Intermediate, Middle and High School
This presentation will discuss:
- Various GPS Models and Capabilities
- Ways to integrate GPS with GIS
- Locating free GIS data
- Sample GPS exercises

Enhancing AP Human Geography through High School Course Web Page
Presenter: Cindy Patten
Audience: High School
Learn how to utilize a web page to enhance any geography curriculum! This presentation provides a tour of a geography teacher’s web page developed with SchoolCenter’s© web development software package. Attendees will also be provided with alternate web options for use if their school district does not yet have a supporting web site.

Geographic Resources for Electronically Active Teachers (GREAT)
Presenter: Fred Kunze
Audience: Intermediate, Middle and High School
The GREAT session in the computer lab will demonstrate Internet and computer based resources for classroom teachers who have a Geography emphasis. The session will be held in a computer lab, and you will be provided a CD which contains Geographic resources.