The Effect of the Circular House Strategy on Acquiring Geographical Concepts for Fourth-grade Literary Students and Developing Their Effective Communication

Abstract

The current research aims to identify (the effect of the circular house strategy in acquiring geographical concepts for fourth-grade literary students and developing their effective communication). For girls, this sample was randomly divided into two groups, one of them was an experimental group that included (32) students who studied geography using the circular house strategy, and the other was a control group consisting of (33) students, who studied the same material in the traditional way. The variables are: (the chronological age of the students calculated in months, the academic level of the parents, the effective communication scale). The Republic of Iraq, the researchers also prepared model teaching plans for both groups. The researchers adopted two tests to measure their research variables. The first test was The test for accquiring geographical concepts consist of (13) items and its validity, stability and were verified, as well as statistical analyzes of its paragraphs. The control group in the concept acquisition test and the effective communication scale