Details
Presenters
Chris Bunin, Virginia Geographic Alliance
Anita Palmer, GISetc
Date & Time
January 30, 2025 8:00 pm EST
Category
African American History, History of the American West, Slavery and Freedom
Description
The interplay between geography and history is essential to understanding the events and episodes that shaped the first 250 years of the United States. This webinar will introduce teachers to the power of using short classroom-ready GeoInquiries tailored to 19th century US history topics. These free dynamic activities bring the geography of these events to life while introducing teachers and students to the power of geographic information. Topics include: Westward Expansion, The Underground Railroad, A Nation Divided: The Civil War, American Indigenous Lands: 1819 – 2015, and Mapping the Emancipation Proclamation.
*This webinar is part 2 of a 3 part series supported by The Virginia Geographic Alliance, Virginia Council for History Education, and Esri. Parts 3 will provide overviews of GeoInquiries that cover 20th century US history topics.
Anita Palmer, GISetc
Anita, a past middle and high school technology and social studies teacher, provides geospatial professional development, support, and curriculum design to K-12 and higher education teachers and students. She has authored multiple geospatial education books and is co-author of the Esri Earth Science, U.S. History, Elementary, World History, and World Geography GeoInquiries as well as the pre-service and in-service text GIS for Teachers: A Guide to Authentic K-12 Integration and Application. Ms. Palmer is a National Geographic Fellow and part of the National Geographic-supported “2892 Miles to Go” initiative, and she has created the ancillary StoryMap collections for nine Cengage Publishing textbooks.
Chris Bunin, Virginia Geographic Alliance
Chris is a teacher of A.P. Human Geography, World History, and Geospatial Technologies at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has collaborated on projects focused on leveraging geospatial technologies and geo-literacy in the classroom. These include: “The Virginia Experiment” and “America on the World Stage” Teaching American History Projects; the iSTEM Teacher Scholars Program: An Applied Geospatial Curriculum for Middle Schools; Esri’s GeoInquiries for US History, Human Geography, and World History; the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools Program; and co-author of the books Jamestown to Appomattox: Mapping U.S. History Using GIS (2014) and GIS for Teachers – A Guide to Authentic K-12 Integration and Application (2017) . He is Co-Coordinator of the Virginia Geographic Alliance and Vice-Chair for NCHE’s Board of Directors.
History of the American West
