This week, we learned …
… teachers work more unpaid overtime than anyone else.

Photograph by Bart Everson, courtesy Flickr. CC-BY-2.0
Tell us something we don’t know! Check out our professional development opportunities to help alleviate unpaid OT.
… the Cook Islands may literally redefine themselves.

Consult Cook Islands Languages to learn more.
Where are the Cook Islands? Use our downloadable 1-Page Map to find these Pacific archipelagoes.
… Scandinavian Americans are tiring of lutefisk, but African immigrants are eating it up.

Photograph by Jonathunder, courtesy Wikimedia. GFDL-1.2
What other immigrants adapted their cuisine to their new home?
… John Snow wasn’t the only one mapping London’s 19th-century cholera epidemics. Resource of the week!

Snow was the most famous cholera-mapper, though. How did he do it? Use our activity to help students understand spatial mapping.
… high-paying blue-collar jobs are sitting empty, while students are lining up for college.

Photograph by Eugene Richards, National Geographic
Use our inquiry-based resource to guide a discussion on the “best” jobs in the U.S., and how that determination might be made.
… on the rooftop of the world, India and Pakistan are waging the coldest war.

Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic
Use our map-based resource to better understand the conflict in Kashmir.
… the desert is overtaking Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Get a great introduction to deserts with our reference resource.
… India is diverting 30 rivers to address its water crisis.

Photograph by A.J.T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-4.0
Why is Paul Salopek calling this leg of his “Out of Eden” journey “Riverlands”?
… archaeologists have discovered an “untouched” Maya cave.

Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic
The archaeologist who discovered the cave is a National Geographic explorer! Meet Guillermo de Anda with our student-friendly article.
… how to bring a forest back to life.

Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
Our inquiry-based resource outlines how one country (Iceland) is reviving its forests 1,000 years after they nearly vanished.
… ways of seeing nature in Los Angeles.

Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic
Our idea set gives a list of ideas about interacting with urban nature.
Teachers are the most OVERPAID part-time government employees in the world.
Let’s see just what days teachers get off. ALL spring holidays, spring break, summer vacation, ALL fall holidays, fall break, ALL winter holidays, winter vacation, sick leave holidays, and personal vacation days. Doesn’t leave much time for teaching does it? WAAAAY OVERPAID!