情境教学具有以情为纽带,以思为核心,以学生活动为途径,以周围世界为源泉的相互联系、相互影响的鲜明特色。这些特色对营造地理课堂的创新氛围,培养学生的创新思维有着独特的作用。为此,在地理教学中巧设情境,有利于调动学生学习的积极性和主动性,营造地理课堂的创新氛围。一、突出情境的新颖性,激发学生的学习兴趣学习兴趣是培养创新思维的切人点。教师在教学过程中若能创设具有新颖性的教学情境,就能迅速激发学生的学习兴趣,使学生在兴趣的引导下主动地参与探究地理知识、追寻地理原理的活动。如在学习“世界的人口问题”时,笔者以抢凳子的小游戏导入——四条凳 Situational teaching has the distinctive characteristics of being interrelated and influential, taking love as a link, thinking as the core, student activity as a channel, and the world around us as the source. These characteristics have a unique role in creating the atmosphere of innovation in geography classrooms and in cultivating students’ innovative thinking. For this reason, setting the situation in geography teaching is helpful to mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of students and create the atmosphere of innovation in geography classroom. First, to highlight the novelty of the situation, to stimulate students’ interest in learning is to cut the point of training innovative thinking. Teachers in the teaching process if you can create a novel teaching situation, you can quickly stimulate students interest in learning, so that students interested in the initiative to participate in the exploration of geographical knowledge, the pursuit of geographical principles of activities. If you are studying “Population Problems in the World ”, the author imports a small game of stool - four stools