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The purpose of this article is to illustrate how using ‘advance organisers’ called knowledge maps of the five fundamental themes of geography can help geographic educators design curricula more effectively. Advance organisers are defined quite generally as statements at a higher order of abstraction, generality and inclusiveness than the task to be learned, that are used to facilitate the learning of connections among new information and a students' cognitive structure. Knowledge maps are diagrams showing the connections between facts and concepts. These diagrams are called maps because the location of concepts and facts in the diagram is analogous to their position in a person's memory system. The five fundamental themes of geography: location, place, human environment interaction, spatial interaction or movement, and region were defined by a joint committee of the Association of American Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education in 1984. Since that time, they have been used widely in the design of instructional materials in the United States. Over the past thirty years, educational psychologists and those working on techniques for curriculum design and lesson planning have shown the great utility of advance organisers and knowledge maps in a wide range of instructional settings, but not in geography. This paper addresses that omission in the literature by highlighting some of the results of that research and illustrating its implication for those developing curricular materials in geography. Finally, knowledge maps of one version of the five fundamental themes are presented to illustrate how these ideas may be used by geography teachers.
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