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Description: This presentation includes examples of how geographic thinking and spatial reasoning are used to understand our world. Concepts of geographic thinking include spatial significance, patterns and trends, interrelationships, and an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving. Geographic thinking and the five themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) can be used to answer the following questions.

What makes places and landscapes different from one another and why is this important?
How has the Earth been transformed by human action?
How and why do sustainability and vulnerability change from place to place and over time?
What is where? | Why is it there? | Why care?

Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: J. Scott Greene, Ph.D.