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Adanali, Rukiye; Alim, Mete – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the usability of Problem-Based Learning model supported by Instructional Geocaching Game (PBL-IGG). The study was conducted in Turkey, in 2015-2016 spring term with 19 geography teacher candidates who chosen by convenience sampling method. In this study, within Educational Geocaching Game (IGG) which is…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Problem Based Learning, Environmental Education
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Milson, Andrew J.; Kerski, Joseph J. – Social Education, 2012
The recent National Assessment of Educational Progress in Geography revealed that few American students can identify locations of current events, the scale of those events, or why those events are important. Social studies educators have found that by incorporating emerging technologies into their classroom--such as Geographic Information Systems…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, National Competency Tests, Current Events, Geographic Information Systems
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Incekara, Suleyman – Education, 2010
With the maximum use of the technology such as geographic information science (GIS), remote sensing (RS), and global positioning systems (GPSs) in geography courses, along with its integrative perspective on the social and life sciences and an emphasis on student-centered education, problem solving, and sustainable and environmental education,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Environmental Education, Geography, Foreign Countries
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Ozgen, Nurettin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a high performance computer-aided chain of software which enables us to understand, interpret, capture, update, map, and display natural and human-originated events on Earth and allows us to bring out such phenomena in a form of synthesis. Therefore, a GIS is an important information system in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Information Systems, Migration, Geography Instruction
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Geography Teacher, 2007
"The Geography Teacher" provides hands-on reference and educative material for K-12 Geography teachers. The journal also pioneers innovative ideas for contemporary teaching methods, including lesson plans. This issue contains the following: (1) Ask Dr. de Blij (Dr. Harm de Blij); (2) Refugees in America (TGT); (3) Guinness and the Irish…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Refugees