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BioBlitz is coming to Rocky Mountain National Park, August 24 and 25.  Learn how you can participate in this annual scientific endeavor by visiting the National Geographic website for details.  Volunteers are needed to help staff the National Geographic and Colorado Geographic Alliance booth at the Biodiversity Festival - contact coga@uccs.edu for more details.  If you are interested in the GeoStory media volunteer opportunity, click here for details.  If you are interested in helping out with the education portion of the project, learn about details from Mark De Gregorio.

Interested in finding out what other geographic alliances have to offer in the way of professional development and lesson plans?  Visit National Geographic's Alliance Directory site.

National Geographic's Giant Map of Asia visited schools on the Western Slope in April.  Watch the video from the KREX newsroom for a new view of the continent.

History Colorado  and the Colorado Geographic Alliance have established a partnership to ensure that resources are available to students, teachers, and communities across the state. Investigate the interactive map on the History Colorado website to see opportunities in your area.

Summer Institute: The Geographic Alliances of Colorado and Utah are jointly sponsoring an exploration of Mormons and Miners in Utah, June 24 - 30, 2012. If you are interested in applying, please review the application and submit by May 24th, 2012.

What was the winning question in the Colorado Geographic Bee?  Check out the answer in The Denver Post.  Best of luck to Pranit Nanda who will compete in Washington DC.

Interested in the My Community, Our Earth Global Connections project?  Learn more about it in this You Tube video.  Examples of projects created by students around the world can be found through Association of American Geographers' website.

How can you host a visit of one of National Geographic's Giant Traveling Maps? Check out details and download the form for requesting funding on COGA's "Special Events" page.

Check out the latest edition of the COGA Newsletter - Winter 2011.

The AP Human Geography Testbank is available from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs bookstore. Click here to order your copy of Version 2.0.

Eleven GPS Units are available for use with your students - check here for the borrowing agreement.
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Monument Valley Park

This is what geographers do: Sometimes geographers are also historians.  Listen to an interview with retired UCCS librarian and Geography and Environmental Studies graduate student, Judith Rice Jones, about the history of parks in Colorado Springs.  Her descriptions provide images of space and place in the changing city. Listen to the interview on the April 1 edition of "Western Skies" on KRCC-FM.

The Colorado Geographic Alliance endeavors to:

  • Instill and nurture spatial awareness and geographic literacy, by changing how you understand and experience the world.