About "Education"
Canadian Geographic Education creates classroom materials, runs programs and works with teachers to raise geographic literacy and spark a lifelong curiosity about Canada among the country’s students.
2019 North American Rolex Scholar Neha Acharya-Patel, the first Canadian to hold the scholarship, dives at night near Catalina Island off the coast of California while working with the Pennington Marine Science Center. (Photo: Shaun Wolfe)
Alex Trebek addresses the audience at the official opening of 50 Sussex, Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration, in Ottawa on May 13. (Photo: Andrew Lessard/Canadian Geographic)
Sean Nugent stands in his classroom before a map that highlights key aspects of physical geography, many of which feature prominently in the landscape of his home province of British Columbia. (Photo: Sean Nugent)
Winners of the 2019 Canada’s Coolest School Trip contest, students of Khàtìnas.Àxh Community School in Teslin, Yukon. (Photo credit: Paul Gowdie, Parks Canada)
Randy Wilkie has loved geography and history since he was young and that has propelled him into a decades-long career in education, from teaching high school students to aspiring teachers.
Alison Katzko loves to travel and has been involved in tsunami relief, setting up school art exchanges, and volunteering with schools and animal sanctuaries. Here she is pictured on a three-month trek in Nepal. (Photo: Alex Dunkley)
Retired high school teacher John Trites sits on the front steps of his home in Berwick, N.S., with his dog Atlas. (Photo courtesy John Trites)
Roberta Bondar, Jenni Sidey-Gibbons, and David Saint-Jacques (appearing via video link to the International Space Station) came together at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa on Jan. 22 to mark the 27-year anniversary of Bondar's 1992 mission and to launch a new educational initiative called Exploring Earth. (Photo: Tanya Kirnishni/Canadian Geographic)
