Teaching Geography

by Phil Gersmehl

This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K-12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world.

The Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM features more than 225 reproducible student activities; a Model Curriculum; PowerPoint slides of the book's figures and discussion guides that focus on important concepts in each chapter; specially designed K-2 resources; teaching notes with links to Common Core State Standards and Geography Standards; and more.

 New to This Edition
*Chapter on geography in the curriculum.
*Chapter appendix on the neuroscience of spatial reasoning.
*CD-ROM features additional graphics, many new activities, and a Model Curriculum.
*Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching, Geography

332 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.