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Hurt, Douglas A.; Wallace, Michael L. – Journal of Geography, 2005
A three-year institute called "The Lodge Pole River Project" was designed to change educator perceptions of American Indian historical geography and encourage the creation of balanced and culturally sensitive American Indian K-12 curriculum. This project offered unique opportunities to assess a geography institute's impact upon teacher knowledge…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
1989
Egypt is having a very difficult time supplying enough food to meet the demands of its swelling population. This complex problem is analyzed and discussed from a variety of perspectives. Factors such as foreign aid, family planning, agriculture, demographics, and religious and social culture are examined, as well as more specific issues such as…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Demography, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
Goldstein, Sidney; Goldstein, Alice – 1985
In attempts to forestall problems inherent in too-rapid urbanization, China has instituted a migration policy designed to strictly control changes in permanent residence from rural areas or small urban places to larger cities and to encourage the development of small cities and towns. The policy is enforced through the household registration…
Descriptors: Community Size, Human Geography, Migration, Migration Patterns
National Geographic Society, Washington, DC. – 1987
This issue of Update contains four separate geography lesson plans on the topics of: (1) the mobility and interactions of people, goods, and ideas; (2) creating thematic maps and comparing the relative wealth of South American countries; (3) identifying and applying key geographic concepts; and (4) human-environment interactions. Each lesson plan…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Geography Instruction
Monzel, Kristen L. – 1987
This study examines the Lao Hmong, an Indochinese refugee group that has resettled in the Denver-Boulder, Colorado, area. Characteristics examined are the following: (1) migration; (2) location; (3) housing; (4) acculturation; and (5) life satisfaction. An extensive literature review discusses the history, ethnography, and culture of the Hmong in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Community Surveys, Demography
Wragg, Paul H.; Allen, Rodney F. – 1982
Four lessons for secondary school geography instruction focus on creative thinking through generating alternatives, imagining consequences, generating analogies, and creating products. In lesson 1 students lay out alternatives to solving a problem and decide the best course of action. Suggested activities include consideration of alternatives in…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Ecology, Economics
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Hubert H. Humphrey Inst. of Public Affairs. – 1984
Based on data from the 1980 Census of Population and Housing, this report contains comprehensive information about the status of women in Minnesota. It includes detailed information about population characteristics, educational attainment and enrollments, marital status, labor force participation and employment, income and earnings, and poverty…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Demography, Economic Status
Chaney, Elsa M. – 1984
The first in a series of five handbooks designed to present and analyze statistical data on women in various regions of the world, this handbook focuses on women in 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Beginning with an overview of population characteristics of the regions, the analysis continues with a description of women's literacy…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Employed Women, Females
Kuz, Anthony; Ziegler, Eugene L. – 1971
The thrust of this research exploration is aimed at one of the most pressing social problems facing America today: segregation in the public schools. The school system is only one of a complex set of systems, all interrelated, that comprise the entity that we call a city. The geography of the school system--the location of facilities and the…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions, Human Geography
Kasperson, Roger E.; Breitbart, Myrna – 1974
This resource paper on the subject of citizen participation, decentralization, and advocacy planning is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. The approach of the paper de-emphasizes inventory or case study reviews of specific participation or advocacy planning projects for a more general conceptual discussion of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control, Community Development
Dynneson, Thomas L. – 1975
This book is directed to educators who would like to see anthropology assume a greater role in the elementary and secondary curricula. Chapter One traces the growth in the importance of anthropology as a part of the school curriculum from the second world war to the present. Chapter Two discusses the reasons for including anthropology in the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anthropology, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends
Parker, L. Mayland – 1976
In order to test the hypothesis which states "the economic values of traditional tribal cultures are essentially the same", seven culturally and geographically diversified Native American tribes were investigated via library research. The tribes studied were: Mohawk and/or Iroquois (microthermal climate); Maricopa (tropical desert environment);…
Descriptors: American Indians, Behavior Patterns, Correlation, Cultural Differences
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1974
This course of study offers to seventh grade pupils themes which are designed to clarify the meaning and importance of the urban environment in which they live. The guide is about people in the cities and about the planning, growth, and problems of cities. Themes cover the Baltimore city area, urbanization in Maryland, urbanization in the United…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Discovery Learning, Educational Objectives, Fundamental Concepts
Mank, Evans R. – 1967
Building upon Course I, this teaching guide for the first of four units of Course II introduces the secondary student to geographic concepts and generalizations of the physical world to which man has related over time. All units of the second course emphasize the process of development whereby man, coping with given conditions in his physical…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Ho, C. L., Ed.; Chu, S. K., Ed. – 1974
This publication contains papers read at the Conference on Urban Geography for Secondary School Teachers in Hong Kong, 1973, and experimental teaching materials on urban studies based on some of the ideas of the American High School Geography Project. The following papers are included: (1) "Teaching Urbanization" provides general…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
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