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  2. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [3] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but unfortunately persistent, habit of teaching geography through rote memorization". [1] They are pedagogical themes that guide how geographic content should be taught in schools. [4]

  3. Geography - Wikipedia

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    Geography is subject to the laws of physics, and in studying things that occur in space, time must be considered. Time in geography is more than just the historical record of events that occurred at various discrete coordinates; but also includes modeling the dynamic movement of people, organisms, and things through space. [10]

  4. Geo-literacy - Wikipedia

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    Discover why certain cultures celebrate certain holidays, and what is important to them; Investigate different habitats and biomes, such as the rainforest; look at tangible ways children can prevent their destruction; Surround kids with geography: study maps, create maps, follow maps, play with maps. The more spatial intelligence is developed ...

  5. Social studies - Wikipedia

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    In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics.The term was coined by American educators around the turn of the twentieth century as a catch-all for these subjects, as well as others which did not fit into the models of lower education in the United States such as philosophy and ...

  6. Physical geography - Wikipedia

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    Coastal geography is the study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, geology, and oceanography) and the human geography of the coast.

  7. Four traditions of geography - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [5] [8] It requires an understanding of the traditional aspects of physical and human geography, like how human societies conceptualize the environment. Integrated geography has emerged as a bridge between human and physical geography due to the increasing specialization of the two sub-fields, or branches. [9]

  8. Environmental determinism - Wikipedia

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    In the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999), author Jared Diamond points to geography as the answer to why certain states were able to grow and develop faster and stronger than others. His theory cited the natural environment and raw materials a civilization had as factors for success, instead of popular century-old claims of ...

  9. Technical geography - Wikipedia

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    Technical geography is the branch of geography that involves using, studying, and creating tools to obtain, analyze, interpret, understand, and communicate spatial information. [1] [2] [3] The other branches of geography, most commonly limited to human geography and physical geography, can usually apply the concepts and techniques of technical ...