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Whitney, Herbert A. – Journal of Geography, 1984
A national survey which asked Canadian students where they would most and least prefer to live revealed that most preferred to stay near home and disliked, or were neutral toward, other places. Classroom exercises to help college and secondary students understand the geographical ideas mentioned in this article are provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Higher Education, Human Geography, Learning Activities
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McIlwraith, Thomas F. – Journal of Geography, 1984
Rural and small-town Ontario, Canada is introduced through illustrations and discussions of seven typical elements that helped shape the province: cemetery, house, barn, hall, fence, roadscape, and main street. Having students make and discuss sketches is an excellent way to help them learn about the human geography of an area. (RM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Field Studies, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
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Miller, E. Willard; de Souza, Anthony R. – Journal of Geography, 1984
Instructors at all levels can draw on a wide range of materials to teach a course on the geography of Canada. Resources cited include books, journal articles, professional literature, data and maps, films, filmstrips, and slide sets. (RM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
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Cecil, Robert G.; Mitchell, Pirie – Journal of Geography, 1985
Outlines a fourth-grade geography and social studies unit adopted by the London, Ontario, Canada, school system to help Ontario schoolchildren develop positive views of the people of Quebec and their environment. The unit stresses the inherent beauty of human heterogeneity and the advantage of learning more than one language. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction
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Parson, Helen E. – Journal of Geography, 1984
To give students an understanding of how resource management techniques and society's perception of resources have changed, a project which compared a present-day classification of the agricultural land quality of McNab Township in Eastern Ontario (Canada) with nineteenth-century ideas about the land quality of the same area is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Human Geography