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Geography for Life

Geography for Life. Geography’s Key Concepts, Skills and Perspectives & ISSEarthKAM. A vision of what geography education should be …. A geographically informed person…. who sees meaning in the arrangement of things in space…. Can you identify London, Amsterdam, Rome, Moscow, and Berlin?.

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Geography for Life

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  1. Geography for Life Geography’s Key Concepts, Skills and Perspectives & ISSEarthKAM

  2. A vision of what geography education should be …

  3. A geographically informed person… • who sees meaning in the arrangement of things in space… Can you identify London, Amsterdam, Rome, Moscow, and Berlin?

  4. A geographically informed person… • Who sees relations between people places & environments

  5. A geographically informed person… • Who uses geographic skills…

  6. A geographically informed person… • And who applies spatial and ecological perspectives to life situations.

  7. Six essential elements • World in Spatial Terms • Places and Regions • Physical Systems • Human Systems • Environment & Society • Uses of Geography

  8. Std 1: Using maps, globes and geographic representations to acquire, process, report information Std 2: Use mental maps to organize information Std 3: Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments The World in Spatial Terms

  9. Spatial Relations • Skills needed to recognize spatial distribution and spatial patterns • Identify shapes • Recalling and representing layouts • Connecting locations • Associating and correlating spatially distributed phenomena

  10. Spatial Relations (cont.) • Comprehending & using spatial hierarchies • Regionalizing • Comprehending distance decay and nearest neighbor effects • Imagining maps from verbal descriptions • Sketch mapping • Comparing maps • Overlaying and dissolving maps

  11. Std 4: Human & physical characteristics of places Std 5: People create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity Std 6: Culture & experience influence people’s perceptions of places/regions Places & Regions

  12. Std 7: Physical processes that shape patterns of Earth’s surface Std 8: Characteristics and distribution of ecosystems Physical Systems

  13. Std 9: Char’s, distribution, migration of humans Std 10: Char’s, distribution of cultures Std 11: Patterns and networks of economic interdependence Std 12: Processes, patterns, functions of human settlements Std 13: Conflict and cooperation Human Systems

  14. Std 14: How human actions modify the physical environment Std 15: How physical systems affect human systems Std 16: The meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources Environment & Society

  15. Std 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past Std 18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future Uses of Geography

  16. Fit to Your State Curriculum?

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