Teaching Geography, Third Edition [Paperback]

This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K-12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world.

The Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM features more than 225 reproducible student activities; a Model Curriculum; PowerPoint slides of the book's figures and discussion guides that focus on important concepts in each chapter; specially designed K-2 resources; teaching notes with links to Common Core State Standards and Geography Standards; and more.

?New to This Edition
*Chapter on geography in the curriculum.
*Chapter appendix on the neuroscience of spatial reasoning.
*CD-ROM features additional graphics, many new activities, and a Model Curriculum.
*Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards.

"This book offers much more than lesson ideas--it is an insightful exploration of the position of geography in today's educational landscape. The third edition is particularly insightful concerning the role of the human brain in spatial learning. This book should be read in all social studies methods classes. Careful consideration of the discussions in this book will help new teachers make a difference in the lives of their future students."--Steve Jennings, PhD, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

"Gersmehl weaves geographic concepts and principles across content strands and disciplines, including social studies, earth science, math, literacy, and more. Teachers learn how to apply geographic col³&