Facilities that teachers and students can use to store and access bibliographic materials on a computer, referred to as a bibliographic information system (BIS), are described. Advantages and disadvantages of the BIS in teaching are examined, and questions to consider before acquiring a BIS and how to acquire a BIS are discussed. (RM)

Presents a teaching strategy which integrates common demographic and economic transitions models in order to help students understand why societies are unequal in their level of economic attainment. (JDH)

Lists a short Applesoft program which uses Hi-Res graphics to help students aged eight and up learn the points of a compass. Program features include help on incorrect responses and display of the percentages of correct responses at the end of a session. (JN)

Australia is the world's driest continent. One-third of the country's area is unsuitable for any land use, while another third is suitable only for cattle and sheep grazing. Australia's physical geography, weather conditions, wildflowers, and wildlife are discussed. (RM)

Satisfactory completion of this self-contained map exercise will demonstrate student ability to use symbols, legends, scale, orientation, index, and grid in map reading and map use to give directions for way-finding. The exercise should take one class period to complete. (RM)

Describes a mini-course called "Women in Managerial Roles," developed as an innovative experiential methodology to help women bridge the reality gap between classroom and corporation in two ways: bring an entire class of women students inside the corporation, and create structured interactions between the students and women corporate executives…

Enthusiasm for the introduction of computer-based skills needs to be tempered by a realistic assessment of what is possible and desirable within the context of a balanced geography degree. To help teachers identify an appropriate role for computing in the undergraduate geography curriculum, a ladder of computing skills is outlined. (Author/RM)

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) gives students a feel for the data being considered. Four applications of EDA are discussed: the use of displays, resistant statistics, transformations, and smoothing. (RM)

This article describes a cooperative field trip program between the Didsbury School of Education and Ulverston Victoria High School. Responses from students, pupils, and teachers are noted. (MT)

Provides background material and laboratory procedures for an activity which requires students to compare (in quantitative terms) fossils from 10 localities and to objectively define provinces, regions, and realms. These paleobiogeographic relationships are then used to reconstruct the drift histories of the three continents on which the 10…

A step-by-step strategy for teaching secondary geography students about the concept of elevation using topographic maps is described. Students view slides of everyday examples of variations in elevation, produce a simple contour map using a layered model of a mountain, and analyze topographic maps of their own and other areas. (RM)

The personal and formal educational experiences of 97 new college geography teachers participating in a study of teacher preparation are described; their effects of the first year of teaching are analyzed; and the sorting process determining who goes where in the profession is described. (MSE)

Children learn about maps and develop self-confidence in their ability to get where they want to go in a unit of adventurous learning activities. A variety of kinds of maps help children learn about their community, state, country, and the weather. (DF)

Reported are results of a survey in which 13 series of secondary level geography textbooks were tested to determine readability. Findings indicate that there is little difference in the readability level of geography texts published for grade six and those published for the secondary level. References are included. (Author/DB)

This article examines Morocco for rural poverty and effective agricultural change by looking at surplus of rural population, land tenure imbalance, and inefficient land use. (ND)