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ERIC Number: EJ612174
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
"I Thought the World Was Flat, Like the Maps Showed It!" Building Geographic Understanding with Elementary Students. Elementary Teaching Ideas.
Thompson, Gwendolyn
Social Education, v63 n5 p269-71 Sep 1999
Relates a project in which elementary students created a model globe that hung in the classroom in order to enable the students to build their geographic understanding. Describes in detail the process of constructing the globe and discusses the finished globe's uses. (CMK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions, Geography Instruction, Group Activities, Map Skills, Maps, Social Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Globes