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.