Register for 2013 Field Trips
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - Full-Day Trips
Waldo Canyon Fire and Garden of the Gods
Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm
Cost: $70
Description: Look at the impacts of the Waldo Canyon Fire on the city of Colorado Springs. Explore the Garden of the Gods, the spectacular rock formations that represent the geologic history of the Pikes Peak region. The trip will also look at the human-environment interactions in the adjacent Red Rock Canyon Open Space. The trip includes lunch.
Guide: Steve Jennings, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Geomorphology, Ghost Towns, and Gambling
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Cost: $60
Description: Join a local geomorphologist for a jaunt through Colorado's old mining towns. We will visit historic Blackhawk (gambling), Central City (old cemetery and migration), and Idaho Springs (lunch). Bring your lucky charms and take a chance at one of the many casinos en route!
Guide: Casey Allen, University of Colorado Denver
Mt. Evans SOLD OUT
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Cost: $75
Description: Travel through the life zones of the Rocky Mountains along the Mount Evans Highway. This highway as designed by the Olmstead Company. See stately bristlecone pines, alpine lakes, and spectacular views offered only by summiting a 14er. This trip includes lunch.
Guides: Jack Reed, USGS and Rusty Dersch, US Forest Service
Energy Tour – Wyoming
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Cost: $90
Description: Wyoming is the number one exporter of energy in the United States. The diverse array of energy resources that are developed, produced and exported from Wyoming are critical to powering our country. Come see firsthand two very different forms of energy being developed and produced in southeastern Wyoming— a coal-fired electricity plant and a wind energy facility. Please wear close-toed shows and long pants. This trip includes lunch.
Guide: Nadia Kaliszewski, School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 – Full-Day Trips
Terry Bison Ranch – Cheyenne, Wyoming
Time: 9:00am – 3:30pm
Cost: $95
Description: See how the animals that used to dominate the Great Plains are making a comeback. Visit a bison ranch in Wyoming. Take a one hour tour on the only privately owned and operated train system in Wyoming or Colorado. On the tour you will hear about the ranch's rich history, see our many animals (camels, ostriches, goats, pigs etc.) and for the grand finale, the train will actually take you all right into the middle of one of our bison herds where you can hand feed the buffalo from out the train windows. Enjoy a bison burger lunch after the tour.
Guide: Judy Kallal, Wyoming Geographic Alliance
Historic Colorado Springs
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Cost: $60
Description: Explore the complex development of the city. Learn about Little London, "lungers” who came to Colorado Springs for the Tuberculosis cure, mining moguls, and the military connection.
Guide: John Harner, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Rocky Mountain National Park SOLD OUT
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Cost: $80
Description: Rocky Mountain National Park is nearing its centennial. Take a trip to the top of Trail Ridge, high above treeline. See the interaction of numerous environmental factors with the plants and animals of this park. This trip includes lunch.
Guide: Steve Jennings, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Ludlow Massacre Site
Time: 8:00AM – 7PM
Cost: $115
Description: The centennial of the Ludlow Massacre is this year. This deadly confrontation resulted from the conflict between labor and mine owners exacerbated government intervention. See the role of coal mining and steel production in Colorado through a series of exhibits in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Ludlow. This trip includes lunch and admissions costs.
Guides: Karin and Mike Larkin, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - Half-Day Trips
NCAR + Boulder Flatirons Tour- Boulder, CO
Time: 12:30 – 5:30pm
Cost: $40
Description: Learn about the latest in climate research by joining climatologists and science educators on a tour of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The tour includes the VisLab, a state-of-the-art scientific visualization environment for analyzing and exploring Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and Earth-Sun relationships. We will also take a short hike on the Mesa Trail where we will explore and discuss the physical environment of the Flatirons of Boulder, on the boundary between the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain ecoregions, and open space preservation in Boulder County. Bring good walking shoes, water bottle, sunblock, and a camera. Guide: Eileen Carpenter, UCAR
Dinosaur Ridge and Red Rocks Park - Morrison, Colorado
Time: 12:30 – 5:30pm
Cost: $35
Description: Get up close and personal with famous dinosaur fossil sites, including in-place bones (Jurassic Period) and tracks (Cretaceous Period), tour the scenic Red Rocks Amphitheater and park, and take a short hike along the crest of the Dakota Hogback to gain understanding of how the present landscape developed at the foothills between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Bring good walking shoes, water, sunblock and a hat.
Guide: Peter Modreski, USGS
Gold Dust Tour: Walking Tour of Historic Denver
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Cost: $20
Description: Discover Denver's Early Days: A tour of Larimer Square and the Union Station areas of lower downtown as the history of the gold rush and Denver's founding are explored through the built environment.
Guide: Kevin Pharris, Denver History Tours
Eldorado Canyon State Park and Pool
Time: 12:30 - 5:30pm
Cost: $25
Description: Spend the afternoon by looking at over a billion years of geologic history in one of the steepest canyons in Colorado. A short hike in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains will expose you to magnificent geology and plant communities. Top off the adventure with a dip in the El Dorado Springs spring-fed pool. Founded in 1905, the resort around the pool was called the "Coney Island of the West" and attracted a variety of celebrities through the 1920s.
Guide: Steve Jennings, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Women in Geography Education Luncheon
Date: Saturday, August 6, 2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 12:55 PM
Cost: $35.00 - Tickets available in the NCGE On-line Store. Your ticket includes lunch.
About the Speaker: Join the Women in Geography Education Special Interest group for its annual fundraiser luncheon and business meeting. Lunch is open to all and will feature our 2013 WIGE scholarship winner and honored guest speaker, Dr. Susan Schulten.
Dr. Susan Schulten is professor and chair of the history department at the University of Denver, and the author of Mapping the Nation: history and cartography in nineteenth-century America (2012) and The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950, both with the University of Chicago Press.
She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Some of her other work includes "The Civil War and the Origins of the Colorado Territory," Western Historical Quarterly (2013), "Emma Willard and the Graphic Foundations of American History,” Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007), and "Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and John Dewey," The DU Law Review (2009).
Professor Schulten teaches courses on Lincoln, the Civil War and Reconstruction, America at the turn of the century, American thought and culture, the Great Depression, the Cold War, war and the presidency, and the methods and philosophy of history.
In 2010 she was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; she also writes for the New York Times "Disunion" series, which commemorates the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.
AP Human Geography: New approaches to classic models in economic geography
Date: Friday, August 2, 2013
Time: 8AM – 11AM
Cost: Free*
*This event is free if you are a paid 2013 conference attendee but you must have a ticket to attend. Space is limited.
Participants:
- Rick Gindele, Cherry Creek High School, CO
- Paul Gray, Russellville High School, AR and President, NCGE
- Barbara Hildebrant, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Organizer
- Tanya Sharpe, College Board, Chair
About: This session focuses on classic models in economic geography, including Weber’s least cost theory. The presentations will provide a basic foundation for critiquing models of industrial location. Methods used to present the material to students will be included in the presentations. The session presents information that teachers may use to tie together key concepts from the Advanced Placement Human Geography course outline, particularly Industrialization and Economic Development. The session will include a project that can be adapted to economic development on a local scale.
AP Human Geography: Evolution of contemporary geopolitical patterns
Date: Saturday, August 3, 2013
Time: 8AM – 11AM
Cost: Free*
*This event is free if you are a paid 2013 conference attendee but you must have a ticket to attend. Space is limited.
Participants:
- Ken Keller, Danbury High School, CT
- Liliana Monk, Walter Johnson High School, MD
- Don Zeigler, Old Dominion University, VA
- Barbara Hildebrant, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Organizer
- Tanya Sharpe, College Board, Chair
About: This session focuses on the different forces that shaped the evolution of the contemporary world political map. The session will examine the changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements and the changing nature of sovereignty. Methods to present the material to students will be included in the presentations. The session presents information that teachers may use to tie together key concepts from the Advanced Placement Human Geography course outline, particularly Political Organization of Space.
Geography Awareness Week- All-Day Training
Date: Saturday, August 3, 2013
Time: 8AM – 11AM
Cost: Free*
*This event is free but by invite only. You must have a ticket to attend.
About: Geography Awareness Week will take place November 17th through the 23rd in 2013. The week's theme will focus on how geography enables us all to be intrepid explorers in our own way. Celebrated in conjunction with the National Geographic Society’s 125 Birthday students, parents, and educators will have access to a newly created archive of past Geography Awareness Week materials, a new suite of resources all about Geography as a field and discipline, and even more tips and tools to plan your own GeoWeek celebrations!
World Geography and History for Middle School Teachers
Date: Friday, August 2, 2013
Time: 9AM – 11AM
Cost: $10
About: World Geography and History for Middle School Teachers is a workshop on teaching world history from a geographic perspective. The workshops is specifically designed for middle school teachers and focused on empires, agriculture, and migration in the first three eras of world history. Participants will learn how to use the world GeoHistoGram, and receive posters, classroom sets of placement size GeoHistoGrams to laminate, and a CD of activities. This session is presented by Cindy Bloom & Phil Gersmehl.
