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Hinde, Elizabeth R. – Geography Teacher, 2012
In the earliest days of American education, leaders in educational theory and practice believed that the curriculum should revolve around the child's lived experiences. Geography, therefore, should hold a prominent place in the curriculum since it is through geographic concepts that children first experience the world around them. Reading and…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, Young Children, Geographic Concepts
Macken, Carol T. – Social Studies, 2003
When literature in the form of picture books was introduced to the social studies curriculum in the author's classroom, she wondered what her second-grade students would learn from it. She decided to investigate and ascertain whether the children learned geographic concepts when they were taught through a literature-based approach. Given the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Textbooks, Picture Books, Geographic Concepts