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This is a lesson plan for how to help students combine concepts and facts about a region into a deeper understanding of place.

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Students sometimes struggle to pull together and make sense of the diverse types of information presented about a place or region. This activity gives students a simple way to synthesize much of what they have learned about a place or region in order to understand it more fully.

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This page is a summary of: Seeking Synthesis: An Integration Exercise for Teaching Regional Geography, The Geography Teacher, December 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2013.854261.
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