Images of global weather patterns are projected onto the Science on a Sphere exhibit in the Ocean Science Center at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) ...

At a tournament in DC, students compete to identify states from their shapes on a blank US map. They're having fun while acquiring factual knowledge that enables them to think critically. The ...

You might know what Earth looks like on the ground, but how good are you at identifying terrestrial locations from above? Astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently arrived at the International Space Station ...

The World Game is a highly interactive educational geography game for 2-5 players. It incorporates dice and two sets of playing cards to move pawns on the map. About 11 percent(%) of young citizens in ...

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

Teaching Geography is a journal published by the Geographical Association dedicated to geography teaching in the 11–19 age range aimed at students (Undergraduate, PGCE, Masters, Post graduate), ...

Can you guess where this dusty, country road is? It looks like it could be in the American southwest, but it's actually in southeastern Australia—over 13,500 km away. Thanks to an addictive new ...

Riverview student Tea Forrest earns spot in state Geo Bee Surely no trivia buff exhibits more world-class knowledge than the elementary school kids who memorize arcane facts to compete in the National ...

Monday is Columbus Day. When I was in grade school, what they taught us about Christopher Columbus was much different than what is written about him today. We were taught that he discovered America in ...

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