February 5: SEMASC Lock-in at Middleborough High School

41° 52' 49" N
70° 52' 27" W
Coordinates from Stephen Morse. Look up your own and calculate how many degrees, minutes, and seconds you are from Middleborough (aka Middleboro) High School.

The EarthView team was pleased to be invited to stay way up past their bedtimes as a special guest of the annual meeting of the Southeast Massachusetts Association of Student Councils (SEMASC) at Middleborough High School.

EarthView usually does not have a DJ. At the SEMASC meeting, hundreds of students had the chance to dancewhile experiencing the earthin a whole new way!

We hope SEMASC students will check back here for photos and post their comments and questions.

Sen. Franken the Geographer

To celebrate Geography Awareness Week in November, National Geographic invited United States Senators to draw maps of their own states. Senator Franken of Minnesota gave his map a lot of thought. Earlier, he drew this map of the United States from memory.

Endicott College

42° 33' 11" N
70° 50' 50" W
Find the latitude and longitude of your own home or other location in an atlas or at Steve Morse

Dr. Hayes-Bohanan was very pleased to bring EarthView to the beautiful, seaside campus of Endicott College in Beverly. He was there to help the School of International Education kick off its celebration of International Education Week and Geography Awareness Week. EarthView will end the week at home, as Bridgewater State College hosts the annual meeting of MaCIE on Friday.



Members of the Endicott community are invited to post questions, comments, and ideas using the Comments link below.
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Whittemore Elementary in the Daily News Tribune

Reporter Joyce Kelly and photographer Bear Cieri enjoyed the EarthView visit to Whittemore Elementary almost as much as the EarthView team did! The photographs capture EarthView at its best -- with students learning.

The report also captures both the richness and the excitement of the experience for the EarthView team, local educators, and students.

Puzzle and Game Maps

Games have been a popular way to learn geography for centuries -- even before the Internet! In fact, this article at BibliOdyssey mentions that jig-saw puzzles were invented just prior to the American Revolution, and for 20 years, the only depicted maps!

Read the article to learn about pre-1900 geography games, so you know what to look for the next time you are in an antique shop. And keep this tradition in mind the next time you play geography games online!