PROGRAMS
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for Teachers and Students.
By collecting data about litter wherever you see it, from the ocean to your backyard, you can contribute to critical scientific research. Help scientists and researchers better understand the bigger picture of the plastic pollution crisis, from global trends to impacts on local communities.
Learn more about how geography helps us to understand and engage with the world around us. Supporting science, exploration, education, and storytelling—and understanding geography—is more important than ever.
FOR STUDENTS
The Slingshot Challenge is about sharing ideas for slingshotting our planet forward by creating a one-minute video with your solution to our current environmental problems.
Learn more about a project that brings together experts in geography, education, and research to chart a course for the large-scale improvement of K-12 geography education in the U.S.
FOR TEACHERS
Learn more about how using both a geographic perspective and the Geo-Inquiry Process students begin to connect complex components, see patterns, and make connections that change their communities.
Selected educators travel aboard a National Geographic ship on expeditions to regions including the Arctic, British & Irish Isles, Canadian Maritimes, Iceland, the Galapagos, Antarctica, and more.
Join a professional development program for formal and informal K-12 educators inspiring the next generation of explorers, conservationists, and global citizens.