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Teaching Geography

Third Edition

Phil Gersmehl

Paperback + CD-ROM
Paperback + CD-ROM
June 20, 2014
ISBN 9781462516414
Price: $55.00
332 Pages
Size: 7" x 10"
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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