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ERIC Number: EJ203919
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Mar
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Places in the News: The Use of Cartograms in Introductory Geography Courses.
Gillard, Quentin
Journal of Geography, v78 n3 p114-15 Mar 1979
Describes a cartographic exercise to help students in an introductory geography course on the college level understand the geography of world affairs. The activity involved students in creating a diagrammatic map commensurate with amount of news magazine coverage of various foreign countries. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cartography, Educational Needs, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Map Skills, Maps
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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