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Blankenship, Glen; Tinkler, D. William – 1995
This packet is designed for middle school classrooms. The four lessons correspond to the typical curriculum pattern of world cultures, geography and government. The materials focus on world studies and state studies from a comparative U.S./Germany perspective. The lessons include: (1) "Culture and Perspective Taking on the Federal Republic of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture
Blankenship, Glen; Hutcheson, Gwen – 1995
This booklet offers classroom activities for use with 15 social studies-related films for teaching about Germany. The series of 25-minute films are made available by Deutsche Welle Television and Goethe House New York. Lessons in the booklet include: (1) "Germany Since 1945: A Focus on Berlin"; (2) "'I'll Get You All Out of Here!' A…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education
Blankenship, Glen – 1995
This manual is designed to offer support for the instructional resources guides on "Germany since Unification." It provides the basis for a full-day inservice training session on the use of those materials. The format can be modified to meet the needs of leaders, audiences, and time frames. Using the materials developed by teachers and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture
Blankenship, Glen – 1996
This manual contains a description of each of the instructional kits for teaching about Germany offered by the Goethe Institute. Each kit contains lessons plans, handouts, worksheets, color transparencies, and other support materials. This teaching packet provides information regarding the "best fit" of each lesson in the instructional…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture

Taketa, Richard – Journal of Geography, 1996
Describes a field sketch mapping project conducted with a sixth-grade class. The project involved selecting appropriate sites around the school to map, organizing the students, and instructing them about measuring distances and drawing maps. Illustrations include assignments and examples of students' work. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning

Bosh, Patricia K. – Journal of Geography, 1991
Presents a lesson for teaching geography and science by concentrating on the oceans. Includes topography, wave dynamics, and ratio of ocean to land mass. Focuses on geographic themes of location, place, and region. Suggests that students will visualize and manipulate information as they are introduced to concepts in physics and earth science. (DK)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Influences, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. – 1978
The document explains geographic concepts, products, and programs developed by the Census Bureau to assist users in analyzing census data for geographic areas. Emphasis is on small-area data such as census tracts, city blocks, minor civil divisions, incorporated places, congressional districts, and wards. Also presented are data for larger units…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demography
Fernald, Edward A. – 1975
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. This activity investigates environmental quality employing the problem-solving technique. Using a map which shows the proposed route of the cross-Florida barge canal as a focal point, the teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conservation (Environment), Development, Ecological Factors

Alderman, Derek H.; Good, Daniel B. – Journal of Geography, 1996
Reviews two software programs, "PhoneDisc Business95" and "BusinessMAP LTF," that offer user-friendly, low-cost, and quick methods of identifying and mapping patterns of the names of U.S. businesses. This software can be used to help students understand how populations see and define themselves regionally and visualize the demographic spread of…
Descriptors: Built Environment, Business, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
Blankenship, Glen – 1997
This packet is a primary/elementary instructional package targeted at grades K-3 with interest level extending to adult. The lessons of each topic draw heavily on interpretation of photographs and address the topics of physical and cultural geography, basic needs, community services and community helpers, transportation and communication,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture
Spicer, Brian, Ed.; And Others – 1972
Part of a geography series which stresses understanding of the environment through mastery of specific skills and concepts, the secondary level textbook examines environmental systems as they exist at present. A system is defined as one of a large number of elements (people, cities, rocks, soils, air, clouds) which make up the environment.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Area Studies, Design Requirements, Earth Science

Addison, William S. – 1975
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. This activity is a report or case study which looks at the implications, problems, and reactions to a regional comprehensive plan to regulate growth patterns in a 15,000 square-mile area of Toronto,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Development, Environment, Environmental Research
Swatridge, L. W.; Vass, B. – 1975
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates resource management and economics. It employs the student-activity approach to inquiry learning by using group work, simulations, and team research reports. Given data about…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Economics, Environmental Education

Dahmann, Donald C. – Journal of Geography, 1996
Reintroduces and updates the geographic profile as a visualization technique for representing and analyzing the structure of geographical information. A computer software-generated profile focuses on specific information (persons per square mile in selected cities) and represents that information spatially on a graph. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation

Inter Nationes, Bonn (Germany). – 1997
This packet is designed for middle school classrooms. The four lessons correspond to the typical curriculum pattern of world cultures, geography, and government. The materials focus on national studies and state studies from a comparative U.S./Germany perspective. The lessons include: (1) "Culture and Perspective Taking on the Federal…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture