Geography has changed as a subject since you were in school. While students a generation ago memorized state capitals to learn geography, technology has changed the way students learn the subject ...

The article “Spatial research is altering the shape of early learning” (Page 1, Dec. 25) nicely summarized some recent work by several psychologists and other educators who have found that spatial ...

A common perception of geography is that it mainly involves the memorization of capitals, rivers and countries, but in the CSUN geography department, students and faculty view the discipline in a ...

Explains the concepts of latitude and longitude, which are used to locate places on Earth. It describes how latitude is measured in degrees north or south of the equator and how longitude is measured ...

SINGAPORE: It had been 15 years since I was in secondary school, but I could still feel that familiar feeling of dread as the teacher scanned the class for someone to answer his question. Mr Andrea ...

In order to give the students a sense of orientation, spend a few minutes at the beginning of the lesson with the large map of the world. Some entry behaviour questions and remarks could be: Let's ...

It wasn’t until Sep. 11, 2001 that I realized my hometown was only 12 miles from New York City. They were 12 very long miles though, clogged with traffic and striated with densely packed layers of the ...