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"I Thought the World Was Flat, Like the Maps Showed It!" Building Geographic Understanding with Elementary Students. Elementary Teaching Ideas.
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Thompson, Gwendolyn – Social Education, 1999
Relates a project in which elementary students created a model globe that hung in the classroom in order to enable the students to build their geographic understanding. Describes in detail the process of constructing the globe and discusses the finished globe's uses. (CMK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions
The International Date Line Wheel.
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Johnson, Peter – Social Education, 1994
Asserts that teaching principles and concepts related to global time is a test of student comprehension and an instructor's teaching ability. Describes how teachers can create an International Date Line Wheel for classroom demonstration purposes. Includes 11 figures illustrating how to make and use the wheel. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location
Global Interdependence: Learning from Personal Effects.
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Norris, Darrell A. – Social Education, 1991
Describes a learning exercise to combine the goal of global understanding and appreciation with global knowledge. Suggests that students (1) take a systematic inventory of their personal possessions, (2) record the origin of each on a world map, and (3) analyze and discuss their findings. Reports results of student surveys listing origins and…
Descriptors: Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Higher Education