Bringing Geography Back From the Dead [CCSS presentation]

Bringing Geography Back From

the Dead

David Hunter Zombie-Based Learning

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4 Steps to Bring Geography Back From the Dead1. Don't hide Geography in other subjects

2. Teach what Geographers do

3. Emphasize application of knowledge using skills

4. Make problems and questions Exciting!

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Just one more thing…

It's Coverage, not Integration

Geography

History

Step 1: Don't Hide Geography

Step 2: Teach Real-World Geography

Because…

What is Geography?

• Understand connections

• Among people

• Between people and our world

• Make informed decisions

Questions like...

• What is happening? • Why is it happening here? • How might it change in the future? • How do I decide what to do?

Asking, Investigating,

Answering

Geography for Life

Geography for Life 2 (Electric Boogaloo)

Geographic Content

• World in Spatial Terms • Places and Regions • Human Systems • Environment and Society • Uses of Geography

Step 2: Teach What Geographers Do

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Step 3: Emphasize Applying Knowledge using Skills

Project-Based Learning

• “an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge” (BIE)

• The question drives the learning

Driving Question

• Exciting question that makes you want to learn to answer it and ask more questions

Need to Know

• What do you need to learn to answer this question?

• Ask the students

Entry Event

• Not a stack of papers and rubrics

• Set up the setting and the problem

Final Product

• Many formats

• Applications of knowledge

• Use a Rubric!

Step 3: Emphasize Applying Knowledge Using Skills

Step 4: Make it Exciting

Fictional World

Geography ➠ Real World

Zombie Apocalypse ➠ Real World

Geography ➠ Zombie Apocalypse

Make your questions/problems exciting

How would you ____________________

to ________________________________?

application of knowledge

interesting problem

Let's Try

• Time Travel

• Zombie Apocalypse

• Hogwarts

• Space Exploration

• Fashion Designer

• Famous Musician

• Architect

• Waste-Water Treatment Plant Operator

Fiction Non-Fiction

How would you use regions?

Defining regions - Identifying unifying characteristics

The four steps:

1. Don't hide Geography in other subjects

2. Teach what Geographers do

3. Emphasize application of knowledge using skills

4. Make problems and questions Exciting!

Pre-Outbreak Planning

Post-Outbreak Survival

Finding a Place to Settle

Building a Community

Planning for the Future

Pre-Outbreak SurvivalMapping the Outbreak

• Student has some reports of zombie attacks. • Design a map and plot the attacks on the map. • Analyze spatial relationships to predict where

they think the zombies will spread next.

Questions

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