Geographical Utilization in History Teaching

A variety of methods, techniques and strategies are used in high school history curricula or in the subjects of social studies curriculum to achieve special purposes. The aim here is to ensure that history topics are taught permanently and effectively. The higher the students' understanding, perception, critical thinking and achievement rates in the classroom environment, the more effective is learning. The aim here is to ensure that history topics are taught permanently and effectively. The higher the students' understanding, perception, critical thinking and achievement rates in the classroom environment, the more effective is learning. Geography, one of the branches of science, as understood from the definition of history is an important element of history science and makes it concrete. A historical event always takes place on a space, and the characteristics of this space affect the historical event more or less. For this reason, without knowing the geography where the historical event has taken place, we will not be able to objectively understand the event. Thus, as with the Annales School, an interdisciplinary approach will provide a holistic and effective history teaching / learning. One of the qualitative research methods, the written materials determined by the method of document analysis were analyzed and the place of geography in history teaching and the contributions of these two sciences to each other were tried to be revealed