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Mejía Ávila, Doris; Sánchez Agámez, Carlos; Soto Barrera, Viviana Cecilia – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
A pilot test for the design and construction of digital lessons for integrated social science teaching is presented in this study. Combing conventional texts, applications made with Google Earth, and images from the web, three lessons for the sixth grade were created: (1) Evolution of Man, (2) Physical Geography of the Earth, and (3) Pre-Columbian…
Descriptors: Material Development, Multimedia Materials, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Bourke, Terri; Lane, Rod – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
An initial call by the editors of International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education prompted a study about the inclusion of geography in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) tests. This study found that the geography education community were overwhelmingly in favour of such a move, believing that the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Geography, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Alkaher, Iris; Tal, Tali – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
This interpretive study identifies challenges of working with Bedouin and Jewish Israeli youth in two multicultural projects: education for sustainability and place-conscious education. It also describes the ways the adult project leaders addressed these challenges and their views on the effectiveness of their decisions. Participants comprised 16…
Descriptors: Jews, Minority Groups, Cognitive Style, Conservation (Environment)
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Yang, Daihu; Wang, Ziying; Xu, Di; Deng, Zhenzhen – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
Although geographical fieldwork can be viewed as an integral component of geographical education, it fell out of favor in Chinese secondary schools in the recent past. However, the new junior high school geography standards established in 2001 stress the importance of conducting geographical fieldwork for students' learning of geography. Now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys