What's so important about Geography?

In Chapter 13, the author discusses geography and how to teach geography in elementary school. You may ask, "why is Geography important?" Geography is so important because it helps students answer questions such as: What is it? Where is it? Why is it there? and What is the significance of its location? Geography helps students understand connections between physical and human systems and how they interact on the Earth’s surface. It also helps students practice critical thinking skills about the distribution and arrangements of people, places, and events around world. Geography captures the imagination of students through a focus on exploration and adventure!

What are the 5 themes of Geography?

Location
Place
Human/Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

These themes provide a useful way to organize the contents of geography for when you begin to teach it in the classroom! It is important for students to learn about geography to have them realize that different people, religions, and customs exist outside of where they live and their own beliefs.

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What is Civics???

Chapter 11 in the textbook discusses civics and how to teach civics in elementary school. To start off, let's ask ourselves, "what really is civics?" Civics is the study of rights and duties in citizenship, or things and activities that we as people must fulfill in society. To effectively teach civics in elementary school, we can first teach children about how our government works and the roles that we play as American citizens so that everybody has a part in society. As American citizens, we all have natural rights, or rights that come naturally to us as people. These rights are given to us by our government and in return for these rights, each person in society has to fulfill their duty. In a classroom setting, a teacher can give out jobs to each student in the class such as line leader, door holder, messenger, etc. to mimic how each person in society has a specific responsibility and role to play that aids us in functioning properly as a whole. These books are great st...

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Welcome back for the last time everybody, I can't believe that the semester has come to an end! I have learned so much in this course for the past 3 months that will be extremely useful to me as a future teacher. Blogging has positively impacted my learning experience because throughout the semester, I was able to reflect back on my new knowledge each week to aid me in gaining a higher level order of thinking for each topic. It was so convenient to have all of my thoughts in one place which has helped me tremendously in finishing my newest project...my eFolio. In my eFolio, I provide an abundance of information not only about myself, but also about each chapter in the textbook and my fieldwork/lesson plan experience. I will link this project below so you can take a look at it for yourself! I would like to thank Dr. Smirnova for dedicating her time to fill our brains with knowledge that has prepared us to be future teachers. This course has made me stronger, more confident in my tea...

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