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The five themes of geography are an American educational framework for teaching geography, adopted in 1984 by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers. The five themes were published in the NCGE/AAG publication Guidelines for Geographic Education, Elementary, and Secondary Schools. Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices.

The five-theme organizational approach was superseded by the National Geography Standards, a set of eighteen standards promulgated in 1994. However, the five themes continue to be used as an educational approach in many educational outlets.[1]

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Themes

Location

Location can be either absolute or relative. An example of an absolute location could be "The White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW in Washington, DC". Relative location is often used in small areas. For example, "the dry cleaners next to the grocery store" or "the Pacific Ring of Fire located between Asia and North America".

Human-Environment Interaction

The people in this house interact with the environment through the water, the air, and their daily energy needs.

Human-environment interaction is how humans interact with the natural environment. H.E.I. is split up into three major subcategories: adapt to, depend on, and modify. In general, it explores humanity's use and modifications to the environment. HEI can involve positive, neutral, or negative changes. A positive change may be recycling while a negative change may be pollution.

Place

A place has something special and unique about it; either it is unique due to its natural features or because of the way humans have developed that area

Examples

  • The Great Pyramids of Giza are a recognizable place. They have identifiable characteristics such as sand, heat, their shape and the fact that they're only found in one place on Earth. They are special because of their architecture and purpose - as tombs of great Egyptian Kings.
  • Niagara Falls is a unique and special place because of: its formation - by the Wisconsin Glacier 65,000 years ago, its location - situated between the U.S. and Canada, its geological features - the surrounding gorges and the only water fall like this in America, and the fact that it provides hydro-electric power to the surrounding areas. It wouldn't be such a tourist attraction if it wasn't such an amazing place.

Movement

Movement is the travel of people, goods and ideas from one location to another or political events. Examples of movement include America's westward expansion, the Information Revolution, and immigration. New devices such as the airplane and the Internet allow physical and ideological goods to be transferred long distances in short time intervals. The movement of technology, ideas, government, etc.

Region

Region is an area on the earth’s surface that is defined by certain unifying characteristics. The unifying characteristics may be physical, human, or cultural. Geographers also study how a region changes over times. By defining Regions Geographers can split the earth into different sections.

References

  • Cayton, Andrew, Elisabeth I. Perry, Linda Reed, and Allan M. Winkler. America: Pathways to the Present. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN 0-13-133510-3
  1. ^ Matt Rosenberg, The Five Themes of Geography, at About.com

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The five themes of geography are an American educational framework for teaching geography, adopted in 1984 by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers. The five themes were published in the NCGE/AAG publication Guidelines for Geographic Education, Elementary, and Secondary Schools. Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices.[1]

The five-theme organizational approach was superseded by the National Geography Standards, a CACAset of eighteen standards promulgated in 1994. However, the five themes continue to be used as an educational approach in many educational outlets.[2] [1]

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Themes

The five themes are:[2]

  • Location
  • Place
  • Human Environment Interaction
  • Movement
  • Region

Location

There are two kinds of location. There is relative location and absolute location. Absolute location would be the specific location of a place and is determined by the latitude and longitude of a place while relative location would be using other places to explain where the place is.

Place

A place is a building or piece of land that has a location. Place is the human and physical characteristics of a Location.

Examples

  • The Great Pyramids of Giza are a recognizable place. They have identifiable characteristics such as sand, heat, their shape and the fact that they are only found in one place on Earth. They are special because of their architecture and purpose - as tombs of great Egyptian Pharaohs.
  • Niagara Falls is a unique and special place because of:
    • Its formation - by the Wisconsin Glacier 65,000 years ago
    • Its location - situated between the U.S. and Canada
    • Its geological features - the surrounding gorges and the only water fall like this in America
    • The fact that it provides hydro-electric power to the surrounding areas

Movement

Movement is the travel of people, goods and ideas from one location to another or political events. Examples of movement include America's westward expansion, the Information Revolution, and immigration. New devices such as the airplane and the Internet allow physical and ideological goods to be transferred long distances in short time intervals. To go somewhere or to do something.

Region

Region is an area on the earth’s surface that is defined by certain unifying characteristics. The unifying characteristics may be physical, human, or cultural. Geographers also study how a region changes over time.

For instance, the Nile Valley region is a snake shaped region on either side of the Nile River.

  1. ^ a b Karen Ganzel yo yo yo what up? (2010-04-27). "Geography Lesson Plans Using Google Earth" (HTML). Lesson Planet. http://www.lessonplanet.com/directory_articles/elementary_math_lesson_plans/27_April_2010/337/geography_lesson_plans_using_google_earth. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
  2. ^ a b Matt Rosenberg, The Five Themes of Geography, at About.com

See also

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