Shipwreck: Using Literature and Student Imagination To Teach Geography.

Mau, Donna Kay

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ERIC Number: EJ612198

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1999

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Shipwreck: Using Literature and Student Imagination To Teach Geography.

Mau, Donna Kay

Social Education, v63 n4 pm2-6 May-Jun 1999

Provides a geography lesson that integrates literature by focusing on the book "Robinson Crusoe." Explains that the lesson consists of three parts that students perform in groups and individually in which they follow the adventures of Crusoe using the ship's log and excerpts from his journal. (CMK)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Educational Strategies, Fiction, Geography Instruction, Group Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Map Skills, Middle Schools, Social Studies, Student Evaluation

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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