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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Creating a Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education: Project Overview
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Edelson, Daniel C.; Wertheim, Jill A.; Schell, Emily M.; Shavelson, Richard; Bednarz, Sarah; Heffron, Susan; Roth, Kathy; Dobson, Jerome – Geography Teacher, 2013
The National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Council for Geographic Education partnered to outline a "road map" for long-term strategies to improve K-12 geography education. The partner organizations assembled three committees to create synthesis reports, each of…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Geography, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction
Selecting and Designing Questions to Facilitate Spatial Thinking
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Jo, Injeong; Bednarz, Sarah; Metoyer, Sandra – Geography Teacher, 2010
One measure of the impact of a new idea in geography education is how well it is incorporated into teachers' everyday practice. "Spatial thinking" is not really a new idea in geography education; spatial analysis has long been one of its core traditions, but the use of the term is novel and only beginning to be widely used. By spatial thinking the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, Classification, Spatial Ability