This week, we learned …

… teachers work more unpaid overtime than anyone else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why is Paul Salopek calling this leg of his “Out of Eden” journey “Riverlands”?

 

… archaeologists have discovered an “untouched” Maya cave.

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.

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.

Our idea set gives a list of ideas about interacting with urban nature.