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 Start 1. One Perspective: A Way of Looking at the World 2. Two Blades of a Scissors: Regional and Topical Geography 3. Three Strands of Meaning: Facts, Theories, and Values 4. Four Cornerstones: Foundation Ideas of Geography 5. Five Themes: Meeting the Standards 6. Spatial Thinking: Geographical Skills 7. Three Kinds of Tests for Three Kinds of Meaning 8. Geography in the Curriculum: Surviving Top-Down Educational Reform 9. A Multiwheeled Cart: Supporting Teachers 10. Pairs of Tools, Working Together 11. Helping to Build a Palace 12. Afterword: 47% of Our High-School Seniors Cannot Find China on a Map Appendix: Some Facts Every Geography Student Should Know for Perspective
