Workshop: Teaching Geography: An Introduction to Spatial Thinking Skills
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Organizer: Susan Gallagher, AAG
For additional information, please contact sgallagher@aag.org or 202-234-1450 x147.
Instructors: Phil Gersmehl and Susan Gallagher
Workshop capacity: 25
Cost/person: $20 (includes beverages, book, and CD-ROM materials)
Room: Capri Meeting Room 109, Riviera Hotel
AAG Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, NV

Objectives: This workshop will assist K-16, including preservice and undergraduate, geography faculty in identifying examples of geography content instruction which engage students in the modes of spatial thinking. Examples from the 80 instructional units on the Teaching Geography CD-ROM (developed with funding from FIPSE) will be introduced. Current information on developing spatial thinking skills in students will be discussed. Each participant will receive a free copy of the Teaching Geography book and CD.

To register, please use the online meeting registration system for the AAG Annual Meeting.
http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/registration.htm

PAST WORKSHOPS

1. South Carolina Geographic Alliance – revised slope and spatial-thinking packages
2. Howard University – revised slope and capital location packages
3. Association of American Geographers – workshop on spatial-thinking skills and education
4. New York City Alternative High School teachers meeting – slope and history package
5. New York State Council for the Social Studies – slope and history package
6. In-service teachers conference in Illinois – preliminary slope package and revised Korea materials
7. Texas history-geography conference – preliminary capital-location package
8. National Council for Geographic Education – preliminary spatial-thinking-about-Korea package
9. AAG 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA