"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) Improving Geographic Understanding with a State Atlas (Jerry T. Mitchell, Monti Caughman, Susan Wise); (3) Girl Wins Geographic Bee (Scott Norris, NG News); (4) Playing with the 50 States and the Chemical Elements (Antonio Joaquin Franco Mariscal, Maria Jose Cano Inglesias); (5) Why Geography Matters to a Teen (Eric Goldfischer); (6) Reading Our World (The Geography-Literacy Task Force); (7) The Uses of Geography (James F. Marran); (8) World Refugees (Interview with Lavinia Limon); (9) Mapping a Secret (Dawn Bryant, Sue Gerstenberger, Dr. Timothy Lintner); (10) The World's Human Population (Chuck Fahrer); (11) Atlantic Canada in Review (Penny Anderson); (12) Infidel (book review by Jody Smothers Marcello); (13) Movies as Teaching Tools (Mary Lynn Everhart); (14) Book Reviews: Now and Then (Lydia Lewis); and (15) International Geographic Bee (NG web site). Individual articles contain references, tables, and figures.