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Alhosani, Naeema Mohamed Dawood; Yagoub, M. M. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
The worldwide technology boom has created an information revolution. Consequently, a large number of people who previously had limited access to geographic data can now use Internet-based geographic information for a number of diverse purposes. The average person has access to geographic information for tourism, shopping, business, and even route…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Geography, Geographic Information Systems
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Gökçe, Nazli – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
Teaching skills is one of the building blocks of Turkey's Social Studies Instructional Program. Via skills, information can be effectively transformed into high-level behaviors, that information may become a part of one's daily life, and that one may make right decisions concerning major issues in his/her life. Map skills are called "spatial…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Skill Development, Foreign Countries
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Blatt, Erica – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2013
This inquiry-based activity designed for the fifth through 12th grade allows students to engage in an outdoor, place-based experience, working collaboratively both in groups and as a class to accomplish the class goal of creating a local tree map linked to student-collected data about each tree. During Local Tree Mapping, students explore the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Place Based Education, Inquiry, Cooperative Learning
Mockovak, William P. – 1987
The project described in this paper was developed by the Census Bureau to train census enumerators. The approach called "geographic gameboard," consists of three components: (1) an imaginary, graphically depicted community (Abbotsville, Oklahoma); (2) a census map that corresponds to the census geography of Abbotsville; and (3) blank…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Geography, Job Training, Locational Skills (Social Studies)
Fridley Independent School District 14, Minn. – 1973
The program of map and globe study skills for elementary social studies contains two parts: primary level for grades 1-2 and intermediate level for grades 3-6. Concepts of the units include maps as geographical representations; maps as symbols; directions; astronomical maps; city and world maps; and scales and measurement, among others. Each…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education
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Johnson, Peter – Social Education, 1994
Asserts that teaching principles and concepts related to global time is a test of student comprehension and an instructor's teaching ability. Describes how teachers can create an International Date Line Wheel for classroom demonstration purposes. Includes 11 figures illustrating how to make and use the wheel. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. – 1966
Five resource units constitute the Kindergarten level of the Project Social Studies curriculum. The five units, on the theme of earth as the home of man, are preceded by a grid showing the concepts, generalizations, sequential development of skills, and attitudes appropriate to each unit. All the units follow a similar format, consisting of an…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Fundamental Concepts, Geography
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Eick, Brian; Wallner, Rick – Social Education, 1999
Presents a lesson that will help students discover the innovative technologies of the Allegheny Portage Railroad that can be used when teaching about early 19th-century expansion and industrialization. Expounds that students' skills in geography and history will be strengthened through map reading, examination of pictures, and analysis of…
Descriptors: Built Environment, Geography, Industrialization, Map Skills
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1978
The booklet identifies 217 geography skills to be acquired by students in kindergarten through grade six. It is intended to help teachers in developing geographical strands and outcomes in the elementary social studies curriculum. Skills are presented for three grade levels: kindergarten through grade two, grades three and four, and grades five…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Montori, Laura; Lally, Julia – 1974
A topic of student interest, earthquakes, is used as a vehicle for teaching reading and research skills in a California junior high school. Students develop geography skills by labeling fault lines on maps of the Pacific Basin, California, and San Francisco; develop their vocabulary by preparing a list of words about earthquakes; and practice word…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Earth Science, Earthquakes, Geography
Cole, Richard, Ed. – 1979
A series of charts relating social studies skills to components for grades kindergarten through eight is presented. The document is divided into three major sections: grades kindergarten through two, three through five, and six through eight. Nine categories and related components are listed within each section: (1) content components include…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Charts, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading
Larkin, Robert P. – 1976
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates the development of compass skills, map skills, and orienteering. It employs the educational-games approach. Given specific exercises and instructions, students become…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Earth Science, Educational Games, Educational Media