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Teaching Waves with Google Earth [PDF]

Phys. Educ. 47 (2012) pp. 73-77, 2011
Google Earth is a huge source of interesting illustrations of various natural phenomena. It can represent a valuable tool for science education, not only for teaching geography and geology, but also physics. Here we suggest that Google Earth can be used for introducing in an attractive way the physics of waves.
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Please mind the gap: students’ perspectives of the transition in academic skills between A-level and degree level geography [PDF]

, 2013
This paper explores first-year undergraduates’ perceptions of the transition from studying geography at pre-university level to studying for a degree. This move is the largest step students make in their education, and the debate about it in the UK has ...
Anderson L., Ballinger G. J., Berzonsky M. D., Birnie J., Bloom B., Blunt A., Bonnett A., Bryson J. R., Castree N., Castree N., Glenn J. M., Haigh M. J., Harrison D., Hirsch E. D., Huckle J., Imrie R., Jeffrey C., Johnston R. J., Jon Swords, Kantanis T., Lambert D., Leat D., Leat D., Ley D., Maguire S., Marriott A., Morgan J., Parker J. D. A., Parker J. D. A., Pointon V., Prykett J., Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Rawling E. M., Simon Tate, Soja E. W., Standish A., Stannard K., Stevenson D. L., Wilce H.   +38 more
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Geography's ability to enhance powerful thinking skills and knowledge

Nordia Geographical Publications, 2022
Finnish upper secondary geography education has faced major changes within the last decade. In 2014, geography lost one of its compulsory courses in the distribution of lesson hours. Afterward, curriculum reforms were conducted in 2015 and 2019, and the
Eerika Virranmäki
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An Immersive Virtual Environment for Collaborative Geovisualization [PDF]

, 2020
This paper presents an immersive virtual reality environment that can be used to develop collaborative educational applications. Multiple users can collaborate within the virtual shared space and communicate with each other through voice. To asses the feasibility of the collaborative environment a novel case-study concerned the education of a geography
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Changes, challenges and responsibilities in geographical education: The International Geography Olympiad [PDF]

, 2014
Geography has never been so accessible; new media present documentaries about diverse places, supported by travelogues that ask intriguing questions, with superb imagery of natural and cultural features, all supported by emerging digital cartographies ...
Berg, Kathryn, Chalmers, Lex
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Integrating GIS into Hong Kong Secondary School Geography Curriculum [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Hong Kong' senior geography curriculum has included GIS since the early 2000s. However, GIS in secondary schools does not play a significant role in Hong Kong secondary geography education. Analyzing GIS benefits by literature review, it is believed that GIS should be included in both the senior and junior geography curriculum. Moreover, the literature
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Contesting Europe: representations of space in English school geography [PDF]

, 2008
The development of national education systems was premised on the assumption that they would offer particular representations of the ‘national space’, and school subjects such as geography and history offered pupils specific accounts of space and time ...
Morgan, John
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Replacing fallow with field pea in wheat production systems across western Nebraska

Agronomy Journal, Volume 114, Issue 6, Page 3329-3346, November/December 2022., 2022
Abstract Integration of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) (FP) into dryland cropping systems has increased due to ecological and economic benefits, paired with a growing market for pea‐derived products. Challenges exist in the High Plains that limit the integration of crop rotations to replace fallow periods with FP in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)‐based ...
Samuel T. Koeshall, Amanda C. Easterly, Rodrigo Werle, Strahinja Stepanovic, Cody F. Creech   +4 more
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Sustainability: A Regional Australian Experience of Educating Secondary Geography Teachers

Education Sciences, 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number four seeks an equitable and widespread education that enables an outcome of sustainable development by 2030. Intersecting the studies of society and earth processes, a geographical education is
Michael Danaher, Jiaping Wu, Michael Hewson   +2 more
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Zur Situation und Entwicklung des Unterrichtsfaches Geographie in der Schweiz

Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik, 2004
This paper describes the position of geography within the field of school disciplines from grade 1 to 12 (K12) and details the subject's objectives in the syllabi.
Sibylle Reinfried
doaj   +1 more source