Here we pull together news stories, statistics, multimedia, teaching resources and recommended websites to explore the distribution of wealth in the geography and economics classroom – and beyond.
Whether it is early reading opportunities, high-quality child care and private preschools, greater access to creative extracurricular activities, or hovering well-educated parents, it is hard to imagine poorer families being able to match all of these advantages and more by simply changing classroom geography.
Media devices are very powerful in terms of its appeal and bring about new spaces, times and geographies to the classroom.
In one classroom, a geography class, a teacher posed a series of questions while her students listened and wrote their answers on paper.
In Oklahoma, geography educators have put together classroom materials on Great Plains Indians, and hope to use the Internet2 in the coming school year to share the oral history narratives of tribe members.
Marina Zamor's first-grade classroom is a geography-rich environment: the clothesline that runs across elementary school classes everywhere here displays the four oceans and four cardinal points of the compass.
All this travel leads him to recall an adolescent classroom: "We had a massive geography teacher when I was in my early teens, and by massive I mean physically huge.
In contrary to science subjects, for example, topics such as history or geography can be taught totally in a classroom environment.
The wall could even be used as an innovative classroom resource for teaching subjects from geography and history to citizenship and maths.
"Sitting in a classroom putting my head in a geography book, to be honest, really wasn't that interesting to me.
