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Teaching Geography, Third Edition

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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-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.
Introduction: Before We Start1. One Perspective: A Way of Looking at the World2. Two Blades of a Scissors: Regional and Topical Geography3. Three Strands of Meaning: Facts, Theories, and Values4. Four Cornerstones: Foundation Ideas of Geography5. Five Themes: Meeting the Standards6. Spatial Thinking: Geographical Skills7. Three Kinds of Tests for Three Kinds of Meaning8. Geography in the Curriculum: Surviving Top-Down Educational Reform9. A Multiwheeled Cart: Supporting Teachers10. Pairs of Tools, Working Together11. Helping to Build a Palace12. Afterword: 47% of Our High-School Seniors Cannot Find China on a MapAppendix: Some Facts Every Geography Student Should Know for Perspective
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