This bulletin is an outgrowth of the work of the Geographic Education National Implementation Project (GENIP), whose purpose is to implement the recommendations contained in the National Council for Geographic Education-Association of American Geographers 1984 publication, Guidelines for Geographic Education: Elementary and Secondary Schools. The bulletin is an attempt to demonstrate the power of geographical content, including the concepts and skills of geography as they relate to various components of the social studies curriculum. Salvatore J. Natoli and Charles F. Gritzner emphasize in chapter 1 that the goal of modern geographic education is to teach knowledge about the earth and to use that knowledge for personal enlightenment and development. In chapter 2, Joseph M. Cirrincione and Richard T. Farrell examine a study of some of the curricular issues facing professional geographers and educators. In chapters 3 and 4, Michael Libbee and Joseph Stoltman discuss geography within the social studies curriculum from an historical perspective, and also the place of geography in the social studies scope and sequence. In chapter 5, Dennis L. Spetz addresses the problem of adequate preparation of teachers of geography. In chapter 6, Robert W. Morrill, James Sellers, and Stephen A. Justham discuss the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl (Ukraine, USSR), as an example of global interdependence. George Vuicich, Joseph Stoltman, and Richard G. Boehm discuss the fundamental skills of geography in chapter 7. James F. Marran, Salvatore Natoli, and Joan Juliette explore ways to include more geography in the curriculum in chapter 8. Finally, in chapter 9, Richard Farrell and Joseph Cirrincione discuss the results of a study of how a national sample of social studies teachers viewed the five fundamental themes of geography outlined in Guidelines for Geographic Education. (SM)