This textbook is a primary-grade geography course. It presents the idea of direction and helps children form definite conceptions of the natural divisions of land and water through the aid of pictures and diagrams. Clear and beautiful maps in color, unencumbered with names not referred to in the text, are introduced, not as mere illustrations, but…

This textbook is an attempt to present fundamental world relations and their simple derivatives in such form that they may be conceived as an entirety in a system of coordinated principles through geography and astronomy. Chapter I presents an introduction. Chapter II presents a psychological and a pedagogical view. Chapters III and IV present…

Part 3 of a three-part series; part 1 appeared in the April 1972 issue, part 2 in the August 1972 issue. (DS)

The purpose and validity of the HSGP objectives are closely examined, selection and sequence of concepts are analyzed in terms of their academic, commercial and political expediency. The writer is a visiting academic on study leave from Australia. (Author/JB)

Background information on the organization and operation of an internship program at California State University, San Diego, is presented. Students found the work/learn experience had greater impact than hours of professional lecturing. (Author)

Various aspects of the litter problem can be manipulated in the classroom and in the field to effectively develop concepts of scientific method, information acquisition and recording, techniques of data analyses, means of classification and interpretation, and also to predict new problems and hypotheses. (Author)

By way of change of pace, students are asked to use as many terms as possible in the construction of a puzzle pattern on a blank matrix. The instructor selects one pattern and completes it in the form of a crossword puzzle to be used at the end of the unit. An example is given from a weather and climate unit. (NH)

Describes college geography curriculum in the United Kingdom as the core at the center of interacting forces which is influenced by, and is capable of influencing, six major sectors of society. The balance between these forces and their susceptibility to change is examined. (Author/AM)

Although instructors have been reluctant to utilize the Keller Plan (a personalized system of instruction), it lends itself to teaching introductory geography. College students found that the routine and frequent reinforcement led to progressive learning. However, it does not lend itself to the study of reflexive or polemical concepts. (IS)

Examines the status of regional geography in Canadian elementary and secondary schools. How the geography of Canada is presented in textbooks is also examined. (RM)

Reviews a selection of atlases and other books containing maps of Ohio. Sources for nineteenth century maps and surveys and modern thematic maps of the state are discussed. (AM)