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Geography Educators' Network of Indiana GEOGRAPHY EDUCATORS’ NETWORK OF INDIANA NEWSLETTER Volume 106, Issue 3 Summer, 2006 rand Gala Honors Long-Time National Inside this issue: G Competitions/Awards 1 Geographic Leader On May 3rd, the National Geographic This grand Gala, held at the Marriott Educator opportunities 2,15 Society presented “The World of Gilbert Wardman Park Hotel, brought representa- M. Grosvenor: A Lifetime of Service, An 2,3 Events Evening of Celebration” to honor the man Featured Geographer 5 who has served the Society since 1954 as photographer, author, editor of National Lesson Plans 9-14 Geographic Magazine, President, and most recently, Chairman of the Board. The Gala Resources 2 used Mr. Grosvenor’s 75th birthday to rec- ognize his unwavering dedication and to raise awareness for the need to increase geography education in America’s schools. For more information on Gilbert Grosvenor’s numerous contributions, see the “Featured Geographer” article on page 5. Gilbert M. Grosvenor Continued on page 3 Indiana Geographic Bee Winner Crowned Last year we had a 7th grader from in Munster, successfully defeated a tough Evansville, in southern Indiana, win the group of competitors to earn a $100 cash Indiana Geographic Bee. This year our prize, a globe from the National Geograph- champion reigns from the north. Jonathan ic and a trip out east. He will travel to Special Points of Hielkema, from Highland Christian school Washington DC to represent Indiana at the Interest: National Geographic Bee May 23-24. The My Wonderful World Cam- stakes there will include a $25,000 college paign Launched May 2nd scholarship. The runner up at the Bee was sixth- Summer Educator Oppor- tunities grader John Hensle from Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Terre Haute and third 2006 Bee Recap place went to eighth-grader Jacob Klopfen- Gilbert M. Grosvenor’s stein from Memorial Park Middle School years of service celebrated in Fort Wayne. They each received a cash prize and globe from the National Geo- Jonathan Hielkema celebrates with his family! graphic as well. Continued on page 4 NEWSLETTER Volume 105, Issue 3 Page 2 GENI Board of Directors Calendar of Events 2005-2006: June 2-3—GENI Long Range Planning http://www.indiana.edu/~global/teacherprogr Lou Camilotto Meeting to be held at Taylor University; con- am.php. Board President tact Roger Jenkinson, (765)998-53223, if you July 15-23—Costa Rica GIS Institute; field McCutcheon High School, Lafayette are interested in attending. based learning with GISetc. Visit their web- Tom Jones June 15-16—Lincoln Institute at the Univer- site at www.gisetc.com/costarica_2006.html . Board Vice President sity of Southern Indiana. For Information, July 17-21—Maps Institute at the Children’s Taylor University, Upland visit http://www.usi.edu/hsi/dbigham or con- Museum of Indianapolis. Designed for teach- Melinda Butler tact Darrel Bigham at (812) 465-7014. ers in grades 3-5. See 15. Board Secretary July 6-12—PIER International Affaris July 28-30—Civil War Preservation Trust Bethel College, Mishawaka Summer Institute with a focus on South Teacher’s Institute. See page 15. Jill Bowman Africa. See page 15. August 15-17—Great Lakes Institute at the Board Treasurer July 7-16—Amazon Rainforest Workshop Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Cen- Indianapolis for K-12 educators. Contact Dr. Frances Gatz ter. See page 15. Matt Ard at 1-800-669-6806 email [email protected]. June-Sept.—Free 1 to 4-day Workshops on Pierce Middle School, Merrillville July 9-22—International Studies Summer the Mississippi River aboard the Living Meredith Beilfuss Institute for teachers grades 7-12. This two- Lands & Waters floating classroom. See Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute week residential institute is held at IU Bloom- page 15. Rick Bein ington. For more information, visit IUPUI, Indianapolis Melinda Butler Bethel College, Mishawaka Reources Karen Grimes Cooper St. Andrew & St. Rita, Indianapolis Daylight Saving Time-is here. Be prepared to broad field of labor economics and statistics.”. Catherine Dean answer some of those student questions, like http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm "why do we have daylight saving time." In- Chesterton High School, Chesterton Historical Maps-the site focuses on 18th and cluded at this site are advantages/ Patricia Gillogly 19th century historical maps of North and disadvantages and some history of DST. Thorntown Heritage Museum, Thorntown South America. Wonderful resource for view- http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html Alan Hagedorn ing how cartographers mental maps of states or Center Grove High, Greenwood Benjamin Franklin’s Essay on Daylight regions evolved through time, maps changing Bill Hale Saving Time-in preparation for a lesson on from crude guesses of landform position to Chandler Daylight Saving time read Benjamin Franklin's increasingly accurate maps resembling current Roger Jenkinson tongue-in-cheek description on how to save representations. http://www.davidrumsey.com/ Taylor University, Upland candlelight. This document appeared as a let- Build a Scale Model of the Solar System-the Kathleen Lamb Kozenski ter to the editor of the Journal of Paris, 1784 calculator will let you put in how large you GENI Executive Director complete with calculations to prove his point. want the sun to be, in inches or millimeters, It’s doubtful Ben intended daylight saving to Doug Marvel and it will calculate the scale diameter of the 9 actually be implemented. Spatial Marvels, Inc. planets and their distance from the sun. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html Scott Royer http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/ McCutcheon High School, Lafayette A Reason For the Season-find classroom ac- Fisheries Learning-discover a collection of David Schmidt tivities about reasons for seasons from Nation- lessons and activities about the Great Lakes Lakeland High School, LaGrange al Geographic. Embedded links for illustrating ecosystem, fisheries and stewardship. James Schmidt seasonal positions around the Sun. http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/flow/about.html Penn High School, Mishawaka http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions James Speer /activities/07/season.html Guide to Mostly On-line and Mostly Free Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute US Geospatial and Attribute Data-this site Length of Planet Earth's Day and Night- Ted Springer has the web addresses of most state GIS clear- this Flash animation shows the seasonal varia- Lafayette ing houses and associated state sites. State sites tion in the circle of illumination viewing the Hilary Johanson Steinhardt are a great source of data for specific areas. North Pole. Inset shows the earth's revolution GENI Director Most data can be downloaded for free. around the sun. This is an excellent way to Joyce Thompson http://libinfo.uark.edu/GIS/us.asp explain for changes in day length with season. White River Valley High, Linton http://www.cs.sbcc.net/~physics/flash/Lengtho WebGIS-this site provides one of the cleanest, Kathy Voegel fDay.swf quick loading interfaces for access to GIS da- Castle JR/SR High School, Newburgh tasets including terrain, land use and land cov- Gloria Wilson Statistical Sites on the Web-"Bureau of Labor er (LULC), and Digital Line Graphs (DLG). Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding Farrington Grove Elementary, Terre Haute http://www.webgis.com/index.html agency for the Federal Government in the NEWSLETTER Volume 105, Issue 3 Page 3 Grand Gala continued from page 1 tives and entertainers from nearly every continent on the political Gala ever held in DC, raising over $7,000,000 globe. Dr. Michael Libbee, from the Geography De- in contributions, which will be matched by NGS to cre- partment at Central Michigan University and Coordina- ate has the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Fund for Geogra- tor for the Michigan Geographic Alliance, was in at- phy Education in commemoration of his achievements. tendance and shares his experiences from the evening. This fund will be used to enhance K-12 geography edu- cation in the U.S. through grant-making, outreach, and Imagine a Scottish bag piper, a pair of students innovative projects. doing a gymnastics dance routine, a marimba Do you think we need to invest in better geography band, an African dancer on 10-foot stilts, and a education? Take a glance at the daily headlines…Illegal chance to have your picture taken as a front page Immigration, Bird Flu, Hurricane Devastation, Rising of a National Geographic magazine. Now you Gas Prices, and Global Warming. What you will see is have seen the events that occurred just while walk- geography in our lives, daily. Geography goes far be- ing from the front door and into the reception hall. yond maps and factoids such as capitals and major riv- Tom Brokaw was the MC for the evening and for- ers. It includes the fundamental forces of Earth’s di- mer President George H.W. Bush sent a video con- verse physical and human systems, the interactions be- gratulation note for his fellow Yale classmate The tween people and their environment, and the relation- dinner featured entertainment from around the ships among Earth’s natural and cultural regions. world. The Leakeys, known as the first family of Unfortunately, studies show that Americans’ geo- anthropology, made the trip from Africa to help graphic literacy, awareness and ability to apply key geo- celebrate Gil’s successes. Richard Leakey and Bill graphic concepts to real-world situations, is far poorer Marriott, both life-long friends, told childhood sto- than other nations. See pages 7-8 for highlights of the ries. 2006 Roper Poll on Geographic Literacy and the GENI website for the Final Report and Executive Summary. For the geographers and teachers in the room, the After viewing the results, I think you will agree, the ef- highlight of the evening was Gil’s presentation it- forts of Gilbert M.
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