Teaching Geography Second Edition byPhD

by PhD

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this book and accompanying CD-ROM present a complete conceptual framework and numerous hands-on ideas for effective K-12 geography instruction. The focus is on planning instruction that helps students develop spatial-thinking skills while learning about the land, climate, economy, and culture of places around the world. Updated throughout in response to teacher feedback, the second edition features an important new chapter on spatial cognition. Nearly 100 engaging activities are provided in reproducible transparency masters. Grounded in national and state standards, this is an ideal preservice text or professional development resource. The Companion CD-ROMThe CD-ROM includes a wealth of new and revised resources, including PowerPoint versions of the overhead transparencies; interactive units; animations that model spatial-thinking skills; special curricular materials for K-2; discussion guides, and much more.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching, Geography

Paperback

First published April 6, 2005

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concisely written and full of ideas, this book should be essential reading for any geography teacher. While many of Gersmehl's ideas are a bit provocative, I found his perspective to be refreshing and inspiring. The resource CD alone is worth the price of the book. The book is extremely lucid and definitely helped reshape some of my ideas about how to teach geography.

[Danica Holdaway]

This is a great book for geography teachers that want to learn about theory and philosophy of teaching. The disk has lots of great resources, but the overall approach is somewhat hard to implement in a scope and sequence.