Vol. 14, No. 4, December 1976 - "The Pennsylvania Geographer Revisited"

CONSERVATION AND GEOGRAPHY TEACHING

(pp. 1 - 4)

Ivan L. Jirak

Knoxville Junior High School

Abstract

A successful conservation program can make geography teaching more meaningful; it can add a new dimension to teaching and approach to life. The major hindrance to the effective use of the new conservation approach for learning is the instructor's inability and unwillingness to use it.

THE REGIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL STUDIES: FRONTIERS FOR GEOGRAPHY AND THE PCGE

(pp. 4 - 7)

Donald J. Zeigler

Abstract

Beginning with the High School Geography Project during the 1960's, geographic education at the secondary level experienced a renaissance of popularity and relevance. To accept the HSGP as the definition of high school geography, however, is analogous to demarcating a boundary when we should be advancing a frontier. To capitalize on the fertile ground which has been cultivated by the High School Geography Project, geography teachers must now seek to broaden the base of geography in the schools. Accepting, for the present, that the swing in social studies education is toward interdisciplinarity, three horizons are manifest: First, the American Culture horizon; second, the World Cultures/Regional Studies horizon; and, third, the Environmental Social Studies horizon. Here lie the frontiers of geographic education in the secondary schools.

THE PROJECT GLOBE - A TEACHING TOOL

(pp. 8 - 12)

Dorothy H. Davis; 4th Grade Teacher

Horace Mann School

Abstract

The project globe - a chalk board surface with the outline of continents - is a most useful teaching aid in the lower elementary grades when pupils are discovering concepts of the round earth and relative locations. They soon learn to use the globe as a model for the earth when they orient the globe with the true directions, rotate the globe from west to east, locate places and use directions and distances for discovering relative locations. Places, patterns, and spatial relationships are discovered by pupils as they explore and measure areal extents on the globe.

AIDS AND ACTIVITIES TO ENRICH THE TEACHING OF JUNIOR HIGH GEOGRAPHY

(pp. 12 - 18)

Harold R. Miller

Bloomsburg Area Junior High

Are you looking for something new and interesting for your geography classes? Something to break the routine of your class and even interest the slow student!. There are many worthwhile activities that are also learning devices which will add much to your presentations. There is no substitute for good teaching whatever your methods or procedures. Variety will always interest students. All these activities involving the use of geographic material are not simply time consuming. The particular ones given below were successfully used in the junior high school. Many originated in the writer's classroom where, fortunately, there was almost 100 square feet of bulletin board space available for giving information and directions. Some of these activities take only a few minutes while others may require weeks; they will add much interest to any class. The results will be gratifying. The following aids and activities are recommended. They should he of interest to the progressive teacher.

MAKING MEASUREMENTS MEANINGFUL

(pp. 18 - 22)

Manie L. Anderzohn

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Abstract

To make measurements meaningful to students, they must recognize behind every symbol on the globe or man the bases of measurement. Measurements may express distances an area to scale, and may utilize different basic units. Several measurements may be expressed by latitude alone. These include: (1) length of daylight and darkness in number of hours from month to month in relation to latitude, (2) Angle of the noon sun variations from Low Latitudes to middle and High Latitudes.