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Robert Richardson – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Area should be experienced, not simply calculated. This task invites students to physically experience areas and the spatial relationships between them, as well as their own community.
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Spatial Ability, Experiential Learning, Physical Environment
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Zhu, Liangfeng; Pan, Xin; Gao, Gongcheng – Journal of Geography, 2016
Advances in the Google Earth virtual globe and the concomitant Keyhole Markup Language (KML) are providing educators with a convenient platform to cultivate and assess one's place location knowledge (PLK). This article presents a general framework and associated implementation methods for the online testing of PLK using Google Earth. The proposed…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Internet
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Hung, Ruyu; Stables, Andrew – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
This paper aims at revealing the various meanings of schools as more than built physical environments from a geographical-phenomenological (or "geo-phenomenological") perspective. This paper consists of five sections: the first explicates the meaning of "geo-phenomenology"; the second reveals the meaning of "environment" and a dialectics of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Physical Environment, Phenomenology, Social Studies