TY - BOOK AU - Verma, Om Prakash TI - Geography teaching SN - 8120727975 U1 - 372.891 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd N1 - PART I: The teaching of geography: Making of Geography -- Modern concepts of geography and geographical techniques -- Scope of Geography -- Function of modern geography -- Aims and objects of geography teaching -- Correlation of geography -- The structure of teaching -- Methods of teaching geography -- Regional studies through times: concept of a region -- Aids to teaching geography -- Aids to teaching geography-maps -- Aids to teaching geography: audio visual aids -- Syllabus in elementary schools -- Syllabus in secondary and higher secondary schools -- Geography room and museum and their equipments -- Evaluation in the teaching of geography. PART II: Physiography: The solar system -- Latitude, longitude and time -- Representation of the Earth-projection -- The moon and the eclipses -- The atmosphere and its circulation -- Climate and its influence -- Earth's crust and internal agents of change -- External agents of change -- The ocean and its currents -- The tides -- Vegetation belts of the world and human occupancy. PART III: Practical Geography: Map study-scales and direction -- Elementary surveying -- Survey of India maps and other maps -- Maps and other geographical illustration -- Meteorological instruments and study of weather maps. PART IV: Lesson plan and notes of lessons: The plan of a geography lesson -- Lesson on Mexico -- Lesson on rainfall of India -- Lesson on the causes of currents -- Lesson on the Equatorial region -- Lesson on rice cultivation in Monsoon Asia -- Lesson on Fisheries of the world -- Lesson on people of Tundra Region ER -