Argues the importance of teaching map reading skills to all students since they can help show how physical environment affects human actions. (FL)

By analyzing nineteenth-century mental health data, college level geography students discover the concept of distance decay, which describes the decrease in intensity of a phenomenon with increasing distance from some central place. (RM)

Argues that geography can be made more relevant in today's social studies if it is presented as the study of the environmental impact of culture. This theme is illustrated by contrasting cultural influences which shaped the physically similar east and southeastern regions of China and the U.S. (JDH)

Accounts from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia can be integrated with materials from related scientific sources to help college students develop an understanding of the emerging geography of recently discovered diseases. Legionnaires' disease is used as an example. (RM)

By studying early African hominids, students can learn about the interactive testing and creative aspects of scientific thinking and sharpen their geographical skills. It is impossible to study this topic without giving prominence to space and time. (RM)

Elizabeth Eiselen is interviewed concerning her career as a college geography teacher. She has also been an active member of the National Council for Geographic Education. Ms. Eiselen believes geography should answer the who, what, where, why, and so what of humans in relation to their environment. (CS)

The dependency concept, historical approach, contemporary problems and illustrations, and West Indians abroad are discussed to show how the Commonwealth Caribbean can serve as an effective area for a teaching approach that stresses an integrating, extraregional view of geography. (Author/ND)

Monthly maps of low pressure centers are presented here to attempt a concrete representation that may help students to understand the seasonal change from dry months to wet months along the mid-latitude west coast as a seasonal north-south migration of factors controlling rain and drought. (Author/JH)

An innovative, thematic approach to the teaching of African geography is offered in an attempt to modernize African regional geography, bring it in phase with the rest of the discipline, and emphasize the essential unity of the spatial viewpoint. Five themes are used as the framework for providing an integrating overview of the continent and its…

In this exercise students examine data on the racial distribution within the thirteen junior high schools of Fresno. Then upon discovering evidence of de facto segregation, students research, discuss, and present plans for desegregating the city junior high schools. (Author)

Long term use of instructional television in advanced university geography courses indicates this medium can be extremely effective when properly used. Good viewing facilities and high program quality, which comes from unusual teaching ability and special training, are essential. (NH)

A course called "Geography in an Urban Age brings geography to life for high school students in Seattle. (CK)

This simulation highlights problems of development strategies for underdeveloped countries and examines aspects of tourism. As Parliament members on a Caribbean island, students discuss a proposal from a foreign source and make a decision on behalf of their people. Includes procedures, timetable, character list, role descriptions, and other…