GEOGRAPHY AWARENESS WEEK

Geography Awareness Week is an annual event that aims to promote the importance of geography in understanding the world. Geography Awareness Week encourages educational activities and discussions around geographic themes, emphasizing how geography impacts our daily lives, the environment, and global issues. Schools, organizations, and communities can participate by hosting events, workshops, and activities to engage people of all ages in geographic education and exploration. Many schools and organizations in Canada celebrate Geography Awareness Week with workshops, films, festivals and presentations.

This year, the theme that Canadian Geographic Education has chosen for Geography Awareness Week is “Our collective responsibility to respect and protect our waters”. They have teamed up with Jill Heinerth to offer educator members who subscribe to Canadian Geographic Education an exclusive opportunity to screen “Diving into the Darkness”, an awe-inspiring odyssey about Jill’s journey of exploration, resilience and self-discovery into the planet’s deepest depths.

Members of Canadian Geographic Education are invited to register to receive a link to screen the film.

About Canadian Geographic Education

Canadian Geographic Education is the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s education program, which serves a network of over 28,000 in-classroom educators from across the country. Can Geo Education creates and disseminates bilingual learning resources that are cross-disciplinary and easily linked to provincial and territorial geography, history, social studies and science curricula, with the objective of inspiring critical thinking and geoinquiry, and fostering geographic literacy. The educators who subscribe to Can Geo Education include, among others, K-12 teachers, post-secondary professors, teacher-librarians, homeschool educators, First Nations educators, extracurricular leaders and career counselors. Can Geo Education is best known for its groundbreaking Giant Floor Map program, the Canadian Geographic Challenge, the annual Teacher Summer Institute, the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada education program, the Anthropocene education program, Adopt a Ship and the Cross-Canada Virtual Road Trip. 

Register here to become a member of Can Geo Education!