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Find out how you can get involved in National Geographic Education's community geography projects.
Join us for a week-long, world-wide celebration of biodiversity in September 2013.
A bioblitz is a 24-hour event during which people come together to identify as many species of plants, animals, and other organisms as possible.
Citizen scientists, students, and teachers from around the Chesapeake Bay watershed collaborate to collect data and take action.
Find ideas on citizen science projects to jump into for yourself, your family, or your classroom.
Meet people who volunteer in citizen science efforts across the country.
Use these activities for elementary, middle, and high school to help get students involved in the community and using a geographic perspective.
What are the characteristics of places?
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What kinds of places are important to you and to others?
How can you use field study to help your local community?
Read our peer-reviewed journal article, "National Geographic FieldScope: a platform for community geography," in a special issue of the journal Ecological Society of America's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Download the article, which appears in the August 2012 volume, here.
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