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DeAnna L. Gore – Geography Teacher, 2025
This lesson plan will illustrate how Taiwan can be used as a case study in an undergraduate human geography, population geography, or demography course. Incorporating Taiwan within the curriculum can equip students with a deep understanding of demographic concepts, specifically as it relates to the demographic trends in Taiwan. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
Andre P. Stevenson – Geography Teacher, 2025
This paper examines the rationale and academic relevance of having undergraduate social work majors at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) compare and contrast social welfare and health policies between the US and Taiwan. By examining the differing policy frameworks of the two nations, students can gain a deeper understanding of diverse policy…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Global Education, Social Work
Brent Allison – Geography Teacher, 2025
Though overshadowed by their Japanese counterpart, Taiwan's and South Korea's comics industries produce illustrated tales that represent and speak back to their host cultures, even when employing common Japanese manga conventions. As Japanese manga is popular with North American youth, Taiwanese and South Korean comics present a potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Cultural Influences, Cultural Background
Yolanda C. Lin; Chris S. Duvall; Carolyn J. Hushman; Anna C. Marklin – Geography Teacher, 2025
Information design is the theory and practice of presenting information through the pairing of graphic and verbal content. It is important in the sciences because of the centrality of data visualization in research and teaching. This paper seeks to build the case for the inclusion of information design within both the Geography and university- or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Geography, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
Cynthia Bloom; Lisa M. DeChano-Cook; Adam Mathews – Geography Teacher, 2025
This three-day lesson plan provides students with an introduction to reading topographic maps using multiple modalities. The goal is to give students a range of opportunities using different media to increase their map-reading skills. After hands-on modeling, a summative assessment provides students with the opportunity to put their topographic…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Maps, Topography, Lesson Plans
Ronald V. Kalafsky; Carrie Liu Currier – Geography Teacher, 2025
Teaching regionally focused introductory undergraduate courses can be challenging when students do not have similar levels of formal geography experience. One way to offset this problem is to introduce core geographical concepts as a framework to help refocus attention on the myriad spatial dynamics at work in a region. This article explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Undergraduate Students, Geographic Regions
Derek H. Alderman; Ethan Bottone; Kurt Butefish; Joshua L. Kenna; Katrina Stack – Geography Teacher, 2024
In July 2022, the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Geographic Alliance hosted a three-week summer institute funded by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) as part of its "A More Perfect Union" initiative to promote a deeper understanding of United States history and culture. Eighteen K-12 educators from across the country…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Summer Programs, United States History
Derek H. Alderman; Ethan Bottone – Geography Teacher, 2024
This paper offers the intellectual goals and content that guided a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) K-12 Summer Institute entitled "The Role of Geographic Mobility in the African American Freedom Struggle." Readers are provided background and concepts for exploring Black geographies of mobility in classrooms. Geographic…
Descriptors: Migration, African Americans, African American History, Civil Rights
Phil Gersmehl – Geography Teacher, 2024
The focus in this article is on the usefulness of spatial sequencing as a tactic for interpreting a map and organizing our memory of it. This skill is useful whenever some condition varies in a systematic way with distance. When students are asked whether they see a pattern on a map of a topic like wildfires or terrorist activity, some students…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, Maps, Map Skills
Phil Gersmehl – Geography Teacher, 2024
An "analogy" is a statement of relationship. A "spatial analogy" is an analogy based on a spatial relationship that is observed in a location. Spatial analogies can be based on any spatial relationship, including distance, direction, elevation, proximity, enclosure, or position in a pattern, region, or sequence - in short,…
Descriptors: Geography, Map Skills, Geography Instruction, Maps
Dennis J. Edgell – Geography Teacher, 2024
In the context of introductory courses in physical geography and meteorology, it is common around February 2 for curiosity to arise among students regarding the veracity of "Groundhog Day" predictions. Historically, most instructors' immediate response to such inquiries has been a definitive "NO," emphasizing the impossibility…
Descriptors: Meteorology, Weather, Folk Culture, Prediction
Hsiao-Ping Hsu – Geography Teacher, 2024
According to the author, this innovative lesson plan incorporates virtual reality (VR) technology to foster environmental awareness and care in late primary-age students. Drawing on the place-based education approach and social constructivism in the lesson design, students participate in collaborative project-based learning. The students' task…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students, Lesson Plans
Alvera H. McMillan – Geography Teacher, 2024
Nature place-based learning (NPBL) is one way to sustain people and places at risk of environmental degradation while engaging students in authentic learning experiences, connecting their work to global efforts and inviting students to realize their collective impact. NPBL offers an opportunity for students to apply interdisciplinary literacies…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Outdoor Education, Physical Environment, Authentic Learning
Katrina Stack; Derek H. Alderman – Geography Teacher, 2024
The background and resources presented in this article support teaching about two Tent/Freedom Cities--in Fayette County, Tennessee, and in Lowndes County, Alabama--that were built as a form of civil rights resistance and for housing Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers evicted by oppressive white landlords for marching, attending mass…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Activism, African Americans, African American History
Christopher S. Fowler – Geography Teacher, 2024
Gerrymandering, or more broadly legislative redistricting, is almost unique as a focus of geographic inquiry in that a typical young adult will (a) know what it is, (b) recognize it as geography, and (c) think it is important. These qualities make redistricting an excellent choice for drawing students into the discipline of geography while…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, School District Reorganization, High School Seniors, Secondary School Curriculum
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