Author: Francis C. HardwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Teaching History and Geography ; a Source Book
Author: Francis C. HardwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography
Author: Gary S. ElbowPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032491
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Geography teachers and school library media specialists will find this resource indispensable for providing classroom lessons and activities in critical thinking for geography students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 75 primary source Internet sites covering such topics as Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society, and the Uses of Geography, and will be an invaluable tool in helping teachers and librarians meet the standards set forth in the 1994 publication Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. Each site is accompanied by a site summary that describes the site contents and usefulness to geography teachers and school library media specialists. Site subjects include: Urban Landscapes, Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Weather, The U.S. Census, and the World Wildlife Fund Global Network. The questions and activities that follow are designed to develop critical thinking skills for both oral and written presentations. An appendix of additional geography resources includes Internet addresses for approximately 25 sites relating to maps, primary sources, and critical thinking. This will provide teachers and librarians with even more resources for developing lessons to help each student meet all 18 of the National Geography Standards.
Teaching History and Geography
Author: Francis C. HardwickPublisher: W.J. Gage c1967.
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Teaching Geography Creatively
Author: Stephen ScoffhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317359119
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Teaching Geography Creatively was Winner of the Geographical Association Gold Award 2014 and Winner of the Geographical Association Silver Award 2017. This fully updated second edition of Teaching Geography Creatively is a stimulating source of guidance for busy trainee and experienced teachers. Packed full of practical approaches for bringing the teaching of geography to life, it offers a range of innovative ideas for exploring physical geography, human geography and environmental issues. Underpinned by the very latest research and theory, expert authors from schools and universities explore the inter-relationship between creativity and learning, and consider how creativity can enhance pupils’ motivation, self-image and well-being. Two brand new chapters focus on creative approaches to learning about the physical world, as well as the value of alternative learning settings. Further imaginative ideas include: games and starter activities as entry points for creative learning how to keep geography messy the outdoors and learning beyond the classroom how to teach geography using your local area the links between geography and other areas of the curriculum looking at geography, creativity and the future fun and games in geography engaging with the world through picture-books teaching about sustainability. With contemporary, cutting-edge practice at the forefront, Teaching Geography Creatively is an essential read for all trainee and practicing teachers, offering a variety of practical strategies to create a fun and stimulating learning environment. In the process it offers a pedagogy that respects the integrity of children as joyful and imaginative learners and which offers a vision of how geography can contribute to constructing a better and more equitable world.
Teaching History and Geography
Author: Francis C. HardwickTeaching Geography, Third Edition
Author: Phil GersmehlPublisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462516416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"Keywords: assessments, CCSS, CD-ROM, Common Core standards, Common Core State Standards, children, classrooms, content areas, curriculum, education, elementary, geography, instruction, learning, methods, middle, pedagogy, schools, science, secondary, social studies, spatial-thinking skills, standards, students, teachers, teaching This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K/n-/12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world. The Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM features more than 225 reproducible student activities; a Model Curriculum; PowerPoint slides of the book's figures and discussion guides that focus on important concepts in each chapter; specially designed K-2 resources; teaching notes with links to Common Core State Standards and Geography Standards; and more. New to This Edition *Chapter on geography in the curriculum. *Chapter appendix on the neuroscience of spatial reasoning. *CD-ROM features additional graphics, many new activities, and a Model Curriculum. *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. "--
Classroom-ready Activities for Teaching History and Geography in Grades 7-12
Author: Thomas P. RuffPublisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN: 9780205263752
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combining a selection of resource and reference materials with specific classroom activities, this book offers teachers new ways to help students understand the concepts underlying the study of history and geography. Resources include range from documents, letters, speeches, diaries and eyewitness accounts to folktales, legends, novels, poetry, music and song, and technology.
Geography as Inquiry
Author: Mark NewmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475810431
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum.
How to Study and Teach History, with Particular Reference to the History of the United States
Author: Burke Aaron HinsdalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Teaching of Geography, History and Civics, June 1917
Author: New Jersey. Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description