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The twists and turns in life are often small and insignificant at the time they happen. Their consequences can take you far. Often, at journey’s end, you find yourself at home!
Where was the Treaty of Versailles signed? What is the color of the passing bear? A spirited response to rain, rain, go away. And the light bulb going on. The many moments only I have gotten to enjoy.
Continuing my sharing of some of the teacher moments from my joyous experience of geography education with children …
The Treaty of Versailles
In one or two of my workshops, I show the children three pictures. A photograph…
Venn diagrams. The biosphere. Interactions — apparent and otherwise. Children’s intuition. The lighting up of eyes, a comment, an answer, … Each one a Teacher Moment that thrills. This is part of why I am a geographer.
What are the factors that cause Ebola to spread? How is geography related to this? Let us look at this at two scales: within Africa, and outside Africa.
The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies (TIIGS) needs a pro bono volunteer to our blog published at: http://tiigs.org/blog
Currently the blog is listed chronologically. We need a student-friendly (for high school and…
Watch the footpaths in your city. If you are in Bangalore, you will very likely ask, “What footpath?” And you would be quite right to do so. Over the past two decades or so, our cities have rapidly become hostile to pedestrians (from Latin pedester, on foot).
Ramadan (or Ramzan) is underway. Since Islam follows a lunar calendar, the dates of Ramzan vary from year to year. Throughout the world, the basic pattern of the observance of Ramadan is common to all Muslims. The beginning and ending of the…
All cultural practice occurs in geographic space. Thus, culture is very spatial. If it is spatial, it can be mapped.
Among the many cultural acts that we perform, pilgrimage is one of the very powerful acts. Pilgrimage is often described as “an…
