Wyoming Geographic Alliance

 

Watch the following 50 second video showcasing educational resources available through the Wyoming Geographic Alliance, including the giant floor maps and the Wyoming Student Atlas. Contact Germaine Wagner at gkwagner@outlook.com to find a location near you to borrow these resources for your K-12 class. For online learning, check out more than 40 short interactive map activities using the online Wyoming Student Atlas. 

Mission

The mission of the Wyoming Geographic alliance is to motivate and enable each new generation of teachers and students to become geographically literate by providing teachers with quality training, programs, and instructional materials to enable them to provide students with a 21st century geographic education. Please see our 2018 fact sheet for more information about the status and importance of geographic education in Wyoming. 

News

  • May 20, 2023: presentation to University of Northern Colorado Hewit Institute: Teaching Sustainability in the 21st Century. Margo Berendsen demonstrated how to involve students in data collection using interactive maps with examples from the Wyoming Student Atlas.

  • August 8-10, 2023:  story maps from the online Wyoming Student Atlas were presented at the 14th annual Native American Education Conference at Central Wyoming College in Riverton, along with related teaching toolkits developed by WyoHistory.org.

  • See the Alliance news for more details about events and educational activities in recent years.