Teaching Geography

by Phil Gersmehl

From leading geography educator Phil Gersmehl, this volume presents a complete conceptual framework and many hands-on ideas for effective geography instruction in today's middle and secondary classrooms. The focus is on the "whats" and "hows" of helping students develop spatial thinking skills while learning about the land, climate, economy, and culture of places around the world. Nearly 100 engaging activities are provided in reproducible transparency masters that can be photocopied from the book or projected from the accompanying CD-ROM, which also contains information about national and state geography standards and animations that model the skills discussed. Featuring standards-based curriculum materials and assessments, this is an ideal pre-service or in-service text as well as a practical resource that teachers will want to bring back to their classrooms.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching, Geography

278 pages, 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.