The five themes of geography is an American eucational framework for teaching geography, adopted by the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in their Joint Committee on Geographic Education in 1984. They were published in the NCGE/AAG publication Guidelines for Geographic Education, Elementary, and Secondary Schools. Following this, most modern American geography and social studies K-12 classrooms have adopted the five unifying themes of geography in their discussion of geography. These five themes are location (which can be absolute or relative), place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions.