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Geography Awareness Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Geography-and-the-Imagination.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/9/2005 Geography Awareness Week Transcript While it’s Geography Awareness Week, we wanted to mention some books that bring the subject of geography alive in unusual ways for young readers. Geography and culture are intertwined, and facts can be woven together by the imagination. Did […]

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-Afghanistan-to-Zimbabwe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/7/2005 From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe Transcript It’s Geography Awareness Week, and already young people around the country are gearing up for the big National Geographic Bee in which students from fourth through eighth grades test their knowledge of the world’s geography each year. More […]