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Lynn Songer
songer@uoregon.edu

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University of Oregon Department of Geography

Education in Geography

Lessons in Geography Education
3D Mapping
This unit is an integrated approach to teach geographic thinking about: location, place, region, map reading, and map making.

Seismic Risk Mapping
In this high school lesson helps students develop spatial analysis skills when they learn to classify and map seismic hazards. 

Geography in Music
In this middle/ high school lesson, students use lyrics to understand physical geography. They will identify how regions are described and compare regional wind patterns.

A Bird's Eye View
In this lessons students learn how to view the world from different perspectives. They learn how to describe pattern from aerial photos and Landsat images and how to describe the difference in detail as a result of changing scale.  Zipped Readings