Described is the global climate model CONSTABLE (Climatic One-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Annual Balance of Latitudinal Energy), which can be used in undergraduate and graduate level climatology courses. Classroom exercises that can be used with the model are also included. (RM)

Classroom activities that geography instructors can use to help students analyze two aspects of a health care system--the amount of disease present and the use of facilities to help cure disease--are suggested. The spatial patterns of morbidity and hospital utilization patterns in Central Harlem are used as examples. (RM)

Interesting teaching techniques that geography teachers at the college and university level can use in their lectures and in their seminars and tutorials are presented. (RM)

Many attempts to secure research funds fail not because the research proposed is itself unsound, but because of failings in the way the application is prepared and presented. Tips for preparing a sound research proposal are provided. (RM)

Analyzed are two county level maps showing support for George Wallace's and John Anderson's quests for the presidency in 1968 and 1980 respectively. The maps can be used in courses on the regional geography of American politics. (RM)

After a brief introduction to political redistricting, this article describes a learning activity to teach secondary or college level students about malapportionment and gerrymandering. The activity can be used in political geography, political science, or social studies courses. (RM)

From the kitchen sink to the U.S. defense weaponry systems, minerals play a role, and this role should be identified and studied by both elementary and secondary students in geography courses. The basic design for a unit of study is discussed and learning activities are described. (RM)

Tactile learning activities generated positive evaluative attitudes in fifth-grade learners toward geography. These learners did better academically when their competence was measured by content tests. (RM)

Discusses ways in which K-12 social studies teachers can teach students to discover three functions that maps can serve: presenting information, recording data, and functioning as a basis for quantitative analysis. (RM)

Guided design involves an instructor in developing a problem that students are expected to solve and then leading them, step by step, through the problem to its solution. This teaching method was used to help students explore how individuals, small groups, and then larger numbers of people in larger areas interact to form the Muncie (Indiana)…

The way in which the concept of a paradigm came to be associated with geographical studies in the Anglo-American tradition is discussed. The validity of the concept in relation to geography is examined, and whether geographical studies can be encompassed within the purview of one paradigm is assessed. (Author/RM)

Having students make an everyday atlas, a collection of maps, generally of a small area, that illustrates features of particular local interest, is a good way to introduce them to the methods and materials of geography. How to make an atlas is discussed. Two examples are described. (RM)

Vernacular regions are part of the broader field of place awareness. Gives directions for a unit which selects three popular sports and asks students to construct vernacular sports regions. This involves students in collecting, processing, and evaluating work in a more behaviorally oriented geography than is usual. (CS)

Five conclusions were reached by participants at this meeting: microcomputers cannot take the place of teachers; computer-assisted learning (CAL) should be used to promote teacher-student-computer interaction; there is too little peer review; an international CAL clearinghouse is needed; and the international geography community can play an…

This collection of essays offers ideas, observations, maps, photographs, and descriptions of Boston (Massachusetts) and New England. The 13 essays in the collection include: (1) "An Introduction to New England and Boston: Advancing the Revolution in Geographic Education in a Region of Change" (Theodore S. Pikora; Stephen S. Young); (2)…