How To Be Innovative with Teaching Geography!

 

    To teach history you have to keep engaging your students to make sure they are absorbing the material you are giving to them. Within our textbook, I had read that there are 5 themes of geography. Those are:

• location (relative and absolute location of places on earth)
• place (physical and human characteristics of places) 
• human/environment interaction (how places are modified by human and political events)
• movement (people interacting with other people)
• regions (areas unified by common factors)

These when teaching geography is the main points you need to have. I think that through fun and engaging activities you can succeed in doing this. Three of my favorites are listed below with a little description. 

1. Mystery Boxes- this is when you put mystery items related to the topic you are teaching in a box. Students have 10-15 seconds to feel around the one item inside the box and guess what it is and how it is related to the topic.
2. Models- this idea can be collaborative with the student's peers. The students would take a piece of clay, playdough, or putty and make a model related to the topic. 
3. Tell me a story- students are given a grid with 36 images and a dice. They roll it counts up the stairs of the template and land on an image. Then they have to take this image and add it into her story. They can then read their story to the class. 

These were my favorite ideas to have an innovative teaching approach to geography. I think there are a lot more great ideas but I want to hear some of yours. Let me know below! Chat soon!