From "Student Travel 1969, an annual student travel section.

In this book the author discusses items and anecdotes accumulated during many years of studying, teaching, and examining geography at all levels. Most of the existing literature concerned with the teaching of geography deals only with fundamental problems and often addresses them in a grave and forbidding manner. The approach here is practical,…

This travel guide describes the attractions, both in Europe and the United States, which have scientific or technological interest. Included are universities of historical scientific significance, museums, industrial complexes, and architectural achievements. (CP)

Airline travel provides those interested in geography with opportunities to see and photograph rural and urban scenes. Author describes circuitous routing, joint fares, and stopover techniques that maximize domestic and international air travel experiences. Defines various airline and travel agent terminology. (Author/BC)

Assesses the history of powered flight in terms of the development of commercial airlines, safety, and technology. (CP)

Provides advice on visiting military sites and battlefields across Canada. Taking students on field trips to battlefields allows them to reconstruct the past in a creative and exciting way. (RM)

The sensitivity of 10 moderately mentally retarded and 10 nonretarded adults to changes in environmental spatial structure with and without visual-environmental clues was examined. Both groups showed similar sensitivity to perspective changes without visual cues, but only the nonretarded demonstrated increased accuracy with the visual cues.…

A principal administering simultaneously at four schools states his frustrations with attempting to effectively perform his job and discusses his decision to quit. (DCS)

Music directors assume that students know what advance preparations must be made for a trip and what items they may need. Many find out the hard way that this is not necessarily so. A checklist that directors can give to students to help them plan for a trip is presented. (RM)

The article describes studies of effectiveness of a secondary task as a measure of the blind mobility information processing workload. Secondary task performance is shown to be a useful index of effects of preview and route difficulty, as well as perceptual and cognitive demands of different mobility aids. (Author/CL)

The development of the Sonic Pathfinder, a new electronic travel aid, is described. The aim has been to produce an aid that gives the user useful information for safe, stress-free travel rather than to provide an electronic surrogate for vision. (Author/CL)

Author relates impressions of her recent tour of Storybook England sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Foreign Study League. (MM)