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Suggested Resources

A variety of almanacs, atlases, globes, gazetteers, magazines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, games, activity-related books as well as travel literature or books can provide a basis of geography resources. The following is a selective list of recommended materials suitable for students in 6-12 grades.

Reference Materials(The following should be available in most school and/or public libraries)

  • Goode's World Atlas. Chicago: Rand McNally.
  • Information Please Almanac, Atlas, & Yearbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • National Geographic Atlas of the World. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
  • We the People Atlas: An Atlas of America's Diversity. New York: Macmillan.
  • Webster's New Geographical Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam.
  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Pharos Books.
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 5 vols. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
     

Electronic Aids

  • SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, SimFarm
  • Where in the World/US is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Electronic Atlases/Multi-media Atlases/Mapping Software
    • PC Globe/Mac Globe
    • USA/World Geography (MECC)
    • KidPix [elementary level]
    • ArcView [secondary level]
       
       
       

What You Should Know and Be Able to Do
 

You will demonstrate understanding of interaction between people and their enviroments by applying concepts and skills of spatial analysis to real world issues in human geography.

What you should know:

  1. the broad range of geographic subject matter;
  2. that geography is the study of space and spatial relationships;
  3. how to appropriately use the vocabulary of geography in oral, written and graphic communication;
  4. how to use a range of skills to acquire and present information; and
  5. that geography is fundamental to understanding change in the physical
    and human environments.

What you should be able to:

  1. apply the principles of geography to real life situations;
  2. interpret the interaction between physical and human environments;
  3. use the concept of global interdependence to evaluate the location of economic and cultural activities;
  4. use the concept of region as a principle to organize a geographic understanding of the world
  5. relate geographic concepts to concepts in other subject areas in a number of diverse contexts; and
  6. exhibit well-developed geographic skills:
    • be able to ask geographic questions;
    • be able to acquire geographic information;
    • be able to organize geographic information; and
    • be able to answer geographic questions.

 


Scholars of Distinction in Applied Geography

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