Glamorizing Place Geography: The Sidney High School Place Geography Contest.

Ross, Bill, III

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ERIC Number: EJ406130

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Glamorizing Place Geography: The Sidney High School Place Geography Contest.

Ross, Bill, III

OCSS Review, v25 n1 p37-48 Spr 1990

Describes how a high school designed a contest to reduce geographic illiteracy. A preliminary geographic location and map skill test was given schoolwide, with prizes for the top 10 scores. Concludes that the test results gave a picture of the geographically illiterate and that the test helped glamorize geography. (GG)

Descriptors: Geographic Location, Geography, Geography Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Map Skills, Maps, Secondary Education, Social Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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