1. Beyond Map Reading: Meaningful Geography in History Courses
Gale Olp Ekiss--Arizona Geographic Alliance
Carol Carney Warren--Arizona Department of Education

2. Premise Behind GeoHistory
History teachers want to teach geography because they acknowledge that geography plays a role.
Many history teachers may have a limited knowledge of geography skills and content.
In many states, geography has to be integrated with history due to time constraints.

3. Premise Behind GeoHistory
4. The questions become:
How to maximize the integration of geography into basically history classes?
How to change history teachers into history/geography teachers?
What would assist teachers in making the transition?
What impact will this have on student learning?

4. What are the goals?
Identify geography skills and concepts that link to history and could be on-going themes.
Migration
Cooperation and conflict
Modifying and adapting to the environment
How physical geography impacts history
How places change over time

5. What are the goals?
2. Provide stand-alone (standards-based) geography lessons to supplement the history textbook.
3. Create a bank of K-12 lessons that teach sound geography and will be used in what most would describe as a history/civics/economics class.
4. Explain the on-going themes to social studies teachers and share the final lessons through workshops and a website.

6. The Process was Begun in 2008
A collaboration between
Teacher Consultants of AzGA
Arizona Department of Education
Arizona Historical Society
ASU School of Geographical Sciences

7. In this session: High School lesson
Connecting history and geography in a WWII lesson commonly taught in an American history course
Forecast Cloudy with a Slight Chance of Showers: The Delay of the D-Day Invasion