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Buttimer, Annette – 1974
This resource paper on values in geography is one of several developed by the Commission on College Geography as expository documents for the use of both the student and instructor at the college level. They are designed to supplement existing texts and to fill a gap between significant research in geography and readily accessible materials. The…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Futures (of Society), Geographic Concepts
Keach, Everett T., Jr.; Pierfy, David A. – 1972
The research in this report was conducted to assess the cognitive impact of a simulation game designed to teach selected geographic data about wind and ocean currents to fifth graders. A two-group, post-test research design was used. A random procedure was used to assign 185 students to two treatment groups. The sample was divided by sex, ranked…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Media, Elementary School Curriculum, Games
Haas, Mary E.; Laughlin, Margaret A. – 2002
Games are motivating instructional resources that provide opportunities to learn and practice map, group work, and communication skills. Using the designs of popular commercial, folk, or media games, teachers can create games for their classroom that support geographic education. Many games can be used by students on their own before and during…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts
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Salter, Christopher L.; Riggs-Salter, Cathy – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1988
Provides 10 class activities for primary grade students on the five themes of geography. Activities cover location, place, human and environment interaction, movement, and region. (LS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Fundamental Concepts, Geographic Concepts
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Holtgrieve, Donald G.; Hardwick, Susan Wiley – Social Studies Review, 1989
Offers suggestions about what to teach within the five themes of geography in California's History-Social Science Framework (1988). States that the use of these themes (location, place, relationships, movement, and regions) along with the 15 basic concepts of geography provide a structure for understanding the substance of geography and its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location
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Eichen, Marc – Focus, 1988
Questions value of the National Geography Bee proposed by the National Geographic Society because the public may see geography content as unrelated facts; students may not be motivated; and content can be trivialized. Encourages group competitions that focus on conceptual and regional themes combined with societal, environmental, and locational…
Descriptors: Competition, Content Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts
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Havill, Thomas; And Others – Journal of Geography, 1994
Describes a four-credit college course for preservice elementary and secondary teachers. Declares that the course is a model that integrates basic geography content with appropriate teaching strategies. Outlines the origins and development of the course and includes a copy of the class syllabus. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts
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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
Slater, Frances – 1993
This teacher's guide is to enable the teacher to promote thinking through the use of geography. The book lays out the rationale in learning theory for an issues-based, question-driven inquiry method and proceeds through a simple model of progression from identifying key questions to developing generalizations. Students study issues of geographic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Fitzhugh, William P. – 1995
This paper is part of a larger study, conducted as part of a Christa McAuliffe Fellowship research project, "A Comparative Geography of Three Ecologically Similar Regions." The study compared the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland with the Murray River region of South Australia and the Rio de la Plata region of Uruguay. The project was…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environment, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Fitzhugh, William P. – 1995
This paper shows comparisons among the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, the Murray River region of South Australia, and the Rio de la Plata region of Uruguay. Through comparative geography, students are to draw their own conclusions about the similarities and differences of the three regions. Teachers are encouraged to use other resources to aid…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environment, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Fitzhugh, William P. – 1995
This lesson focuses on student use of magazine pictures of a region in Australia to understand the region and discover more about it. The students begin by mental mapping of the area to discover what they already know, then proceed to explore the pictures for verification or for new ideas which they had not considered previously. This is an…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Culture, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts
Hancock, Daryl R. – 1992
The usefulness of geography knowledge in a child's education is philosophically analyzed from two perspectives: (1) what geography knowledge should U.S. schools be teaching?; and (2) is there agreement about what types of geographical knowledge U.S. schools should teach? Only geographical knowledge that will be useful in life should be taught to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cultural Awareness, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Gregg, Madeleine; And Others – 1990
As part of a project that investigated the teaching and learning of specific subject matters, three studies of geographic literacy were conducted. The purpose of the first study was to gauge the demand for geographic knowledge placed on adults in U.S. society by coding and analyzing geographic knowledge in The New York Times. To begin to assess…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Geographic Concepts
Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge. – 1967
THE UNIT DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOKLET DEALS WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF ALASKA. THE UNIT IS PRESENTED IN OUTLINE FORM. THE FIRST SECTION DEALS PRINCIPALLY WITH THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ALASKA. DISCUSSED ARE (1) THE SIZE, (2) THE MAJOR LAND REGIONS, (3) THE MOUNTAINS, VOLCANOES, GLACIERS, AND RIVERS, (4) THE NATURAL RESOURCES, AND (5) THE CLIMATE. THE…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Geographic Concepts, Geography
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