Geography is the study of the physical features of the Earth, including how humans affect the Earth and are affected by it. Location is a particular place or position. It is important to know where places are related to one another or an absolute location. Movement includes the movement of people or goods such as trading items or moving to a new location. Place is physical characteristics of a specific location such as rivers or mountains. Human-environment interaction shows how humans interact with the environment. For example, recycling to help stop pollution. Region is labeling the different parts of the world such as states, cities, and countries. There are thousands of different ways to teach Geography and the five themes.
One way I would teach geography to my future students is a mystery box. I would put a bunch of different items in a box or bag related to a topic we will be discussing and have students try to guess what the items are. This will engage students in an activity as well as use there senses to answer a question. In our science methods class we did this one of our first days of class. I really enjoyed this activity because I wanted to be right when guessing the objects.
Another activity that I would do with my class is have student walk five minutes in different directions than their schools, homes etc. Then have them record what they see and take a picture, Have the class share their pictures and findings and discuss. This enables students to see how different places can be that are relatively close to each other.
The third activity I would teach in my class involves students getting artistic. I, the teacher, will read a news article to my class and have them create a picture corresponding with the article. This allows students to show their creativity while also reflecting on the article that was just read to them. As they say, a picture does speak a thousand of words. This also teaches students current events that is happening in the world today.
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