Students analyze a contemporary geopolitical event from a comprehensive geographic perspective using role play simulation, discussion, and decision-making. The three-day activity provides teachers with a realistic, ready-made classroom lesson that combines powerful conceptual learning with drama and surprise. The task of the teacher is to…

Describes how expanding the geography curriculum so that it deals with cognitive and affective outcomes in a confluent manner can make geography lessons more interesting to teachers and students. An inquiry lesson on petroleum is presented as an example. (Author/DB)

The central objective of this article is to teach students to analyze the Middle East situation by learning to think in terms of concepts and generalizations. Two teaching strategies, opining and inquiry, are suggested. Stressing geography as concept learning demonstrates how geography can be a contemporary problem solving, generalizing…

The contemporary world is international in character, and students must develop a global perspective. Presents three different listing activities on global topics for upper elementary and intermediate students. Listing techniques develop the cognitive skills of fluency, flexibility, originality, and higher-order rule making. (CS)