What do you know about the Earth

       

   Today in class we all pushed in our chairs and stood in a circle around the room. Dr Smirnova wanted each and every single one of us to share our knowledge on geography and how we would teach about geography in a cooperative lesson to our students. We all stood in a circle and passed around a ball which represented the earth. Each time the earth was passed we needed to look at whichever classmate had the earth in their hand and listen to how they would teach their students about geography.  This was a very engaging way to have the whole class working together and listening to one another. Once you caught the earth in your hands you needed to hug the earth and show how you appreciate the world we live on and you care about our environment and want to teach children how important it is to do the same.   Each of my classmates had very good ideas on how to teach students about geography and the importance of our earth. They all came up with informative and creative ways of teaching the children the importance of geography and how important it is to clean up after ourselves and not damage the planet that we live on. It was great to hear all of my classmates different ideas on teaching geography, it allowed each of us to listen to and grasp ideas from one another. You never really sit back and think about our earth and its geography but its and important topic that should be discussed to children at a young age. Littering is one of the biggest issues we have on this planet along with pollution. We begin to ruin our earth the second we leave any type of trash on the ground. I think it is important for students to participate in class with the teachers cleaning up the earth. Whether they pick up garbage around the school property or even take a minute to walk through the woods on a hike with the class to see all of the different things our planet has to offer when it comes to nature and geography. We often take where and how we live for granted. I think we need to be more apperciative about  where we live and see and teach our students about the beauty of geography.