Geography as Inquiry

Teaching About and Exploring the Earth as Our Home

By (author) Mark Newman, Jack Zevin

Publication date:

07 October 2016

Length of book:

202 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475810400

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.

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

The methods discussed in this book are designed to engage students to examine how geography has help to shape space and time. The authors continue to turn out relative and unique inquiry based learning methods. This book is a must for anyone who is teaching the Social Studies.