Major Themes and Key Concepts underlying the geographical perspective:

• Location
• Space
• Place
• Scale
• Regions
• Globalization

Important Geographic Skills, Technologies and Data Sources:

• GPS
• GIS
• Remote Sensing
• Mapping
• Census Data
• Spatial Thinking

Favorite Specific Resources for this Unit:

• The Association of American Geographers, The Geographic Advantage
• TeachSpatial’s Resources for Spatial Teaching and Learning
• National Geographic’s What is Geography?
• Exploring the scope of geography through Geo-Cube

General Resources for Unit 1