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
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.