"The Geography Teacher" provides hands-on reference and educative material for K-12 Geography teachers. The journal also pioneers innovative ideas for contemporary teaching methods, including lesson plans. This issue contains the following: (1) Ask Dr. de Blij (Harm de Blij); (2) Geography: Is it a Boy's Subject? (Lisa Smitreski); (3) A to Z: Where are the Animals in the Zoo? (Steven H. White, Matt Wachel); (4) Reading Our World (Patricia Hutchinson, Carol Warren); (5) Not Your Average Petting Zoo: Seaview Lion Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Cindy Yahn Grode); (6) The Use of Statistics in Human Geography and the Social Geography of Cities (John Trites); (7) Culture and Objects (National Geographic); (8) The New Geography: Challenges to K-12 Curriculum and Instruction (James F. Marran); (9) Knowing Africa from the Chemical Elements (Antonio Joaquin Franco Mariscal, Maria Jose Cano Inglesias); (10) Teachers, Start Your Engines! (Lyn Malone); and (11) Products We Like: Maps101.com (Ed Grode, Cindy Yahn Grode). Individual articles contain references, tables, and figures.