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Sobel, David – Clearing, 1999
Discusses the importance of harnessing children's natural tendency to make maps. Argues for a geographic curriculum based on building a relationship between the structure of the local landscape and the shape of children's lives. Lists mapping activities that can be used with various age groups. (CCM)
Descriptors: Cartography, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Learning Activities
Schrettenbrunner, H., Ed.; Westrhenen, J. van, Ed. – 1992
This volume contains 10 articles that concern research efforts undertaken in the field of geography education and training. Written by researchers from around the world, the articles include: (1) "Empirical Didactics of Geography: History of a Working Group" (H. Schrettenbrunner); (2) "The Development and Evaluation of a Geography Computer…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAlibrandi, Marsha – Green Teacher, 1997
Discusses the Geographic Information System (GIS) which can display information from a database in a geo-referenced map, the speed with which it can correlate many layers of information, the varied angles it can provide, and other images that it can rotate and transform. States benefits for the classroom including interdisciplinary applications…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Environmental Education
