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GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION (GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS (Direction & location…
GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION
GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS
Relationships within places
How people impact their environment/how the environment impacts people
Why people settled where they did
How to use resources of the land
Spatial interactions
How we depend on others
How we share information
How we travel
Direction & location
Location - concepts begin during infancy
Distance & measurement - based on actual experiences
Direction terms - up & down/left & right/cardinal directions/relative positions
Maps & globes - relate to actual experiences
Movement exploration - children aware of their bodies
Regions
Cultural regions
culture transmitted through language/art/music/games
learn culture from parents
defined by art/music/literature/social organisation
Physical regions
defined by climate/land form/vegetation
Study of habitats
The earth is a place we live
Aesthetic awareness - appreciating the beauty of life
Social Consciousness - reduce/reuse/recycle
Interdependency - lives dependent on one another
Observation skills - use all senses
Caring for our earth - on-going process
GEOGRAPHIC SKILLS
Organizing geographic information
Acquiring geographic information
Analyzing geographic inforation
Asking geographic questions
Answering geographic questions