November 12-18 is Geography Awareness Week. Visit our new Geography Awareness Week pages for great resources (this year’s theme is Africa) and local events near you. Continue reading Geography Awareness Week Is Coming
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to … Plaza Sésamo? Sesame Street, a mainstay of American children’s television, has gone global–in a big way. The show is now in 130 countries, including South Africa (Takalani Sesame), China (Zhima Jie), Bangladesh (Sisimpur), and Mexico (Plaza Sésamo). As a recent CNN report says, “Sesame Street may have different settings, but it has a … Continue reading Global Grover … and Oscar and Elmo, Too
Be sure to enter the first My Wonderful World sweepstakes for a chance to win a ten-day trip for four to the Galápagos Islands on a Lindblad Expeditions cruise. Enter now and good luck! My Wonderful World is a National Geographic-led campaign to increase geographic learning at home, in school, and in the community. Learn more about the campaign, test your Global IQ, find games … Continue reading Win a Galápagos Adventure
It’s hard to miss the commercials—or the buzz—for Borat, a new movie starring British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen as an inept and ill-mannered Kazakh journalist. The people of Kazakhstan are, understandably, a bit horrified at the false traditions—caging women and drinking horse urine, among others—attributed by Borat to the Asian nation. So what is Kazakhstan really like? Here are a few sites to give you … Continue reading Borat‘s Kazakhstan
This week National Geographic News launched a special series, Digital Places, that looks at the “digital tools and trends that are changing the way we explore our world.” In the series: “Global Positioning Tech Inspires Do-It-Yourself Mapping Project” “Disaster Prediction, Social Networking Boosted by Geo-Data Feeds” “Mobile Games Superimpose Virtual Fun on the Real World” “‘Second Life,’ Other Virtual Worlds Reshaping Human Interaction”Check out the … Continue reading Digital Tools and Trends in the News
