Geography as Inquiry

Jack Zevin began as a history and geography teacher on the south side of Chicago, moving to U. of Michigan for his doctorate. After settling at Queens College/CUNY in New York as a professor of education, he has remained in place ever since producing many books and articles that range across history, geography and the social sciences. He has conducted NSF institutes on geography and greatly enjoys developing map and simulation games for classrooms.Mark Newman has a Ph. D. in History from UCLA. He has written and edited books and articles on visual culture, primary sources, and various historical and geographic topics. Mark is currently director of a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources project and previously was co-director of four National Endowment for the Humanities projects.

• Acknowledgements PrefaceChapter One: Geography as InquiryChapter Two: Location, Location, LocationChapter Three: The Mystery of Place and RegionChapter Four:Movement and Change: Search (stay a while), and Settle, Move AgainChapter Five:Working and Fooling with Mother EarthChapter Six:Picturing the WorldChapter Seven:Passages, Barriers, and BoundariesChapter Eight:The Game of Sequencia (History of the World Revisited)Bibliography: Reading recommendations for enrichment

The methods discussed in this book are designed to engage students to examine how geography has help to shape space and time. The authors continue to turn out relative and unique inquiry based learning methods. This book is a must for anyone who is teaching the Social Studies.