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Download full textFryman, James F. – 1986
This document describes how to construct and compare choropleth maps for selected Iowa communities and the construction and use of scatter diagrams as a supplement to map comparisons. These tools can be used to compare social, economic, and political variations between neighborhoods and to determine if associations exist between selected…
Descriptors: Cartography, Community, Community Characteristics, Demography
Peer reviewedHermann, Dan – Journal of Geography, 1996
Summarizes methods from a high school geography class that used examples from local geography to teach basic geographic concepts. Maintains that these illustrative examples can be used even in courses where the content is not local geography. Provides examples of local landscapes illustrating concepts applicable to the Brazilian rain forest. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Characteristics, Geographic Concepts, Geography
Dunn, Stephen P., Ed.; Dunn, Ethel, Ed. – The Station Relay, 1986
A compilation of five journal issues describing facts and daily life in the Soviet Union, the documents are intended to help people of the United States know about the people of the Soviet Union, their hopes, fears, and facts of their daily lives. Among the topics included in the publications are: Soviet consumers and the law; public health…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Consumer Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
