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National Geographic is where education meets exploration. We are transforming the learning experience to provide educators with the tools, resources, and support they need to feed their learners’ curiosity and become the explorers of tomorrow. Through immersive experiences, interactive lesson plans, maps, and other free resources – there are endless ways to teach with National Geographic.
Hands-on exploration
Explorer Classroom
Explorer Classroom connects your learners with a National Geographic Explorer for a live, 45-minute virtual class. It features behind-the-scenes stories from cutting-edge scientists, researchers, and storytellers, plus a real-time Q&A session.
Professional development
Grosvenor Teacher Fellows
The Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship (GTF) is a professional development opportunity for pre-K–12 educators, a collaboration between Lindblad Expeditions and the National Geographic Society. Selected educators are hosted aboard Lindblad's voyages for a life-changing, field-based experience.
classroom materials
Education Resources
Every subject is worth exploring. From science and geography to human culture and history—there’s a world of knowledge waiting to be uncovered.
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MapMaker
MapMaker is a digital mapping tool, created by the National Geographic Society and Esri, designed for teachers, students, and National Geographic Explorers.
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Education Blog
Get the latest information from National Geographic Education with timely resources, classroom ideas, and inspiring stories from Explorers and educators
Our Focus
Maximizing impact in six key areas
Oceans
Revealing and protecting underwater worlds
Our Explorers discover, understand, and conserve marine and coastal systems and inspire and empower local and global audiences to better understand and protect the ocean.
Faculty
The Modern Storytellers
Much like our ancestors telling stories around a communal fire, Explorers come back from their sojourns with a tale to tell. Unlike legends of yore, their stories are grounded in scientific fact but told with as much heart as ever.
Suzanne Mr. Brent Jacobs Middleton
Explorer
Every year, Monarch butterflies embark on an epic migration of over 2500 miles, flying routes between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The butterflies face enormous environmental threats that impact their extraordinary life cycle, from loss of habitat to scarcity of food, and may soon be listed as Endangered. Explorer Jaime Rojo is documenting the Monarchs’ journey to inspire action to protect the butterflies and their habitat. About Jaime Rojo
Jahawi Bertolli
Underwater Photographer
Imagine what music was like 50,000 years ago—how would it sound today? Explorer Jahawi Bertolli’s First Rock project merges recordings of ancient rock gongs with sounds of nature, shining a light on cultures and environments that we are at risk of losing. Jahawi wants to preserve and create awareness about this ancient music form by blending the rock gong sounds and his own compositions.
Malaika Vaz
Film Maker
Explorer Malaika Vaz’s documentary, Sacrifice Zone, investigates the global impact of extractive industries—oil, gas, plastic, and fast-fashion—on communities of color in India, Colombia, Bangladesh, and the U.S. The film shifts the narrative from consumer guilt to corporate accountability, examining the link between racial inequity and environmental exploitation. By exploring the nexus of corporate and government power, it shines a light on frontline communities fighting for justice.
Lujan Agusti
Visual Storyteller
Explorer Luján Agusti is a visual storyteller based in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. For the past eight years, she has been working on the connections that communities around the world have with their peatlands. This project is a starting point for exploring human interactions with less hegemonic ecosystems that have been historically mistreated, despite their importance to our livelihood on this planet.
Prasenjeet Yadav
Photographer
For over a century, India has led global tiger conservation, doubling its tiger populations. But hunting and growing human settlements have cost tigers most of their historic range and isolated them in small areas that are not connected with other tiger populations. Explorer Prasenjeet Yadav is documenting the story of six “tiger islands” in India, showing the importance of connectivity and genetic diversity to ensure the tigers' future.
Laurel Cho
Journalist
Explorer Laurel Chor is a journalist, photographer, filmmaker, and rugby player from Hong Kong. Her work explores people’s relationships with nature, society, and culture. She is interested in individuals’ embodied experiences of the global forces that affect these relationships, from conflict and disease to climate change. Through her storytelling, she hopes to remind people of their shared—and interconnected—vulnerability, power, and humanity.