Things You'll Need:
- Interest in geography
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Step 1
One way to celebrate Geography Awareness Week is to plan various events or activities in your office, school, department, place of work, or organization. This could include an international meal, guest speakers or lectures about geography topics, or other geography related events. You could also place geography related quotes and facts on posters around your work place or school, or hang up posters depicting images of various places around the world.
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Step 2
If you are already affiliated with a geography department, you could plan events to make geography known and increase geography awareness and the importance of learning geography and becoming geographically literate in your broader community. After all this is the ultimate goal of Geography Awareness Week. Events could include those listed in Step 1, visiting K-12 school classrooms as guest speakers to discuss geography, holding a geography bee, hosting a model United Nations event, hosting an international dinner, hosting a geography bowl trivia tournament, and more. Certain events might even be organized around a specific theme pertaining to a sub-field of geography, such as human migration, human-environment interaction, a particular region (such as the geography of Asia or Latin America), physical geography, and many more.
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Step 3
If you specifically want to participate in GIS Day, then this can be as easy and as simple as making a presentation at a local school, hosting an Open House event, informational meeting, or user group, or proclaiming GIS Day in your city, town, or county.
