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Dalit Lan; Sagi Dalyot; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
The global outbreak of COVID-19 brought an unprecedented influx of official and semiofficial geographic information to individuals worldwide, primarily in the form of geospatial and numerical data. Maps specifically played a key role in the conveying of information and guidelines to the public in relation to the pandemic. Yet to fully understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Geography Instruction
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Beau Dickenson; Kathy Swan; Gerry Swan – Social Education, 2024
In this article, the authors share a unique and unfolding story about a program in Virginia that allows districts to opt into a series of Inquiry Design Model (IDM) performance assessments in place of the state-developed multiple-choice test. In the Rockingham County School District, this initiative was piloted in ninth-grade World Geography…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Grade 9, World Geography
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Grobelski, Tiffany; Versluis, Anna; McClelland, Jesse – Journal of Geography, 2023
This paper details the process and results of redesigning an introductory undergraduate World Geography course, from a survey of world regions to a project-based course. Through two student projects, one tracing commodities and another eliciting migration experiences, the course renders the world not as the sum of discrete regions but as the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Projects, Active Learning, Introductory Courses
Sahin, Vedat – Online Submission, 2021
During the Republican period in Turkey, various arrangements were made regarding the world regional geography syllabi. In this context, with the curriculum of 2005, which forms the overall structure of the geography curriculum in today's secondary education, the understanding of world regional geography has greatly changed. This study is…
Descriptors: World Geography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Kathy Swan; Alicia McCollum; Kelli Lemaster; Helena Sands; Tanya Schmidt – Social Education, 2024
Shifting to an inquiry-based practice can be challenging. How should teachers get started? How many times should teachers plan for inquiry? What do teachers do when students struggle with inquiry? How long does it take for students to buy in to the inquiry process? These kinds of questions, and the concerns that underlie them, can create an…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Social Studies, Curriculum Design, Grade 6
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Larsen, Thomas B.; Solem, Michael; Zadrozny, Joann; Boehm, Richard G. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2022
This article describes a data-driven approach to contextualize geography subject matter using student aspirations and workforce data. To test this teaching strategy, undergraduate students in two world geography courses taught at Texas State University were surveyed and interviewed about their career and life aspirations. Using this information,…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Teaching Methods
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McDaniel, Paul N. – Journal of Geography, 2022
Amid the shift to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across disciplines were faced with developing new strategies for active learning. This article discusses findings from a case study of using Google Earth for virtual field trips and projects in an undergraduate Geography of North America course, assessing the process of…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Internet, Maps, Active Learning
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Coppersmith, Sarah A.; Hurt, Douglas A. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
The purpose of the research was to examine perceived moral agency beliefs, attitudes, and prosocial actions of 226 undergraduate World Regional Geography students and eight instructors at two Midwestern U.S. universities. The context of the research is positioned within the study of world regional geography courses in order to better understand…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, World Problems, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty
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Gazioglu, Mihaela; Hines-Farmer, Shauna M.; Vega, Hazel; Savitz, Rachelle S. – Social Studies, 2022
Adaptive teaching is a pedagogical approach which encourages teachers to adapt their teaching practices to deliver custom learning experiences by addressing students' individual needs and differences. This article describes how one beginner geography teacher adapted instructional practices to meet her students' learning needs. First, we provide a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction, Learning Experience, Student Needs