Geography As Inquiry - Teaching About and Exploring the Earth As Our Home

Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: Geography as Inquiry
Chapter Two: Location, Location, Location
Chapter Three: The Mystery of Place and Region
Chapter Four: Movement and Change: Search (stay a while), and Settle, Move Again
Chapter Five: Working and Fooling with Mother Earth
Chapter Six: Picturing the World
Chapter Seven:Passages, Barriers, and Boundaries
Chapter Eight: The Game of Sequencia (History of the World Revisited)
Bibliography: Reading recommendations for enrichment

About the author

Mark Newman has been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award, highly commended in the New Writer Prose & Poetry Awards and Bristol Prize longlisted. His work has won competitions judged by Alison Moore, Tania Hershman and David Gaffney. He has been published in Firewords Quarterly, Fiction Desk, and Paper Swans. He has eight stories in the Retreat West competition anthology Inside These Tangles, Beauty Lies.

Summary

Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Newman, Mark Zevin Newman, Jack Zevin, Jack Newman Zevin, Zevin Jack
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2016
• EAN: 9781475810400
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1040-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Educational: Geography, Teaching staff, Teaching of a specific subject, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, Teaching staff / Educators