At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, University of Delaware professor Lindsay Naylor realized she wanted to write a book that would challenge the status quo in geography and academia at ...

Geography is an important tool to help learners grasp nuance and context—essential components for deeper understanding no matter which subject educators are teaching. To know Tim Needles is to know an ...

This week’s question is: What are creative ways to teach geography? Geography is included among the many different classes I teach each year, so I’m always interested in learning about creative ...

Where in the world has geography gone? Last year, Miss Teen South Carolina became a national laughingstock for her halting and confused answer to a question about why roughly one-fifth of Americans ...

Geographers at the University of Nevada Reno employ innovative techniques and methods to examine the complex relationship between humans and their environment and the spatial dimensions of our world’s ...

Gautam Anand, a high school senior from Rochester, Minn., created the fast-growing game WorldGuessr to help people get a taste of life in other parts of the world—and, with more than 50,000 downloads ...

Geography has long been at the center of interdisciplinary learning about people and environments at Miami University. The Great Seal (1826) features a globe and Miami’s first geography program was ...

According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they ...

The world is a big place, so realistically, most people probably can’t accurately label every single country on a map. But we should still be able to name the majority of them, or at the very least, ...

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 ...