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UNI Undergraduates Represent the GAI at NCSS- Boston
UNI undergraduate Social Science Education students, Blair Miller, Sibyl Cox, and Mollie Ullestad presented their INSPIRE-related curricular materials at the 2014 National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference in Boston, MA in November. Along with Dr. Alex Oberle, they co-presented a poster describing how to integrate high-altitude ballooning, a text set, and lesson plans into the classroom. They met with geography educators from around the country, and shared their lesson plans and classroom ideas.
Big Cat Week
November 28-December 5, 2014 is Nat Geo WILD's Big Cat Week. Its a week totally dedicated to the world's big cats- lions, tigers, cheetahs, panthers, etc. These beautiful and powerful creatures are rapidly facing extinction. Big Cat Week provides stunning and powerful stories from around the world, and allows viewers to share in the triumphs, defeats, and struggles of our planet's big cats.