Well some of us geographers may end up as classroom teachers! I did the first geography lesson plan for a class project. The lesson’s purpose is to not only introduce students to the variability of Earth’s temperature history, but to help them differentiate between fact and opinion. Of course, getting the temperature data might be difficult; and time scale can change everything! It would be appropriate for grades 6 through 12. Realistically, this is probably too much for one class period, and would be divided up into two-days work. What do you think?
The second attachement is a sample of all the planning that goes into a week of teaching Social Studies. I did this for a teaching team at Veteran’s Hill Elementary at Hutto ISD. The 3rd grade generalist teachers take turns writing the weekly lesson plans per subject. On this particular week I was filling in for a teacher and it was my turn to write the Social Studies plans for the team.
This episode of Radiolab from NPR and WNYC looks at how the brain uses location, how pigeons navigate, and how language is used to help us navigate spatially.
Us graduating geographers will be entering a tough job market. Of course, that is only half of the problem. It is difficult to choose a career profession with our diverse interdisciplinary skill set. If you are like me, you want to do a lot of things. At any rate, here are a few interesting resume ideas I have created. The first, resume 2.0, is a portal with embedded hyperlinks to other web pages and examples of my work. The resume, Hans Recommended is almost entirely in other’s words. It is an amalgamation of reference letters, professor comments on papers, etc. Enjoy!
It is interesting to see how something as simple as an Off-Street Parking Ordinance can make a place more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
For instance, the example included here contains landscaping and light pollution standards: off-street parking and loading rewrite 2011
