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Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21
Geography Awareness week is sneaking up — November 15-21. Got your special lesson plans ready, teachers?… more →
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Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21
Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: Geography Awareness week is sneaking up — November 15-21. Got your special lesson plans ready, … more →
Alaska's salmon go missing. Why?
Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: It’s one of those environmental mysteries that would be fun and intrigueing, were it not so wo … more →
Global cooling? That would be good news for the forests
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Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: Climate change denialists (sorry, Mr. Watts – denialism is what it is) frequently argue that s … more →
India today, in photos
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Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: Geography teachers, get out your PowerPoints and Keynotes. Photo of life in Delhi, India. From a col … more →
Great Arctic sea ice hoax exposed
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Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: Look at the photos and see for yourself. From 2006 to 2007, did sea ice at Barrow, Alaska, increase … more →
Trouble at the Texas State Board of Education: Social studies curriculum
Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: I’m posting on the run from an AP Summer Institute at Texas Christian University, so just the … more →
Is Texas the state most vulnerable to global climate change?
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Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: John Mashey occasionally graces these pages with his comments — a cool, reasoned head on hot i … more →
Insanity at Texas state school board - economics, geography and history
Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Texas Freedom Network’s Insider blog reports that embattled chairman Don McLeroy is working to … more →
Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Ocean levels
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Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Blue Ollie carried a YouTube video that got me to look at Peter Sinclair’s marvelous series of … more →
Polluted waters near your home, 6-legged frogs, and you
Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: It was a reference to the “environmental movement” in government and politics — se … more →
Texas Citizens for Science supports stripping powers from state board
Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: Another press release, FYI. I’ve added some links in for your convenience. Remember, teacher … more →
Social studies on the 'net
Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: A note from one of our school’s librarians: Here are some web sites for Social Studies teacher … more →
California unemployment map, for economics classrooms
Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: The Sacramento Bee, one of America’s great newspapers which we hope can stay in business throu … more →
Mapping Africa
Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: Here’s a great tool for geography study of Africa. AfricaMap is based on the Harvard Universit … more →
Abraham Lincoln, inventor
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Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: Any visitor to Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello knows of Jefferson’s wide-ranging i … more →
Waiting for the New President: Doctoring data on global warming
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: ArborDay.org map showing changes in hardiness zones between 1990 and 2006, a map climate change deni … more →
Geography lesson: New York City
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Bookmark this site, geography teachers: Farm School is going to New York City for the “Americ … more →
Atomic history, nuclear future
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: We’re going to see more nuclear power plants in the U.S., it’s a safe bet. Both preside … more →
"See ya Red States," and a paean to Texas
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: You’ve seen it before — the letter saying toodle-oo to the red states, as the blue state … more →
