Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek), celebrated every third week of November, is an awareness program focused on highlighting the importance of geo-literacy and geo-education. A new theme for each year is announced in midsummer accompanied by related online resources and activities, which are then available year-round.
GAWeek 2012 – Declare Your Interdependence
This year’s Geography Awareness Week theme explores the idea that we are all are connected to the rest of the world through the decisions we make on a daily basis, including what foods we eat and the things we buy.Have your students investigate their own interdependence by completing the “Global Closet Calculator”–an interactive game that aggregates the contents of their own closets by origin to generate a map showing their unique global footprint.
Download and print this year’s poster to find global connections with students by investigating the geography of the pencil or doing a hands-on version of the global closet game.
