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MacKay, Carley; Tran, Kim; Lunstrum, Elizabeth – Journal of Geography, 2021
Drawing on our experience teaching a 2-week field-based geography course on urban environmental issues, we reinforce the value of field-based experiential education (EE) especially as it faces growing threats. We show how such experience can enable students to understand the diversity of urban environmental challenges in situ; grasp cities as…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Experiential Learning, Geography Instruction, Urban Environment
Shepardson, Daniel P. – Journal of Geography, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate students' conceptions of and feelings about land use. Specifically: (1) What are students' conceptions of and feelings about land use? And (2) in what ways might students' conceptions and feelings vary by community setting and grade level? This study was qualitative and descriptive in nature and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Land Use, Elementary School Students, Ecology
Smithwick, Erica; Baxter, Emily; Kim, Kyung; Edel-Malizia, Stephanie; Rocco, Stevie; Blackstock, Dean – Journal of Geography, 2018
Two forms of interactive video were assessed in an online course focused on conservation. The hypothesis was that interactive video enhances student perceptions about learning and improves mental models of social-ecological systems. Results showed that students reported greater learning and attitudes toward the subject following interactive video.…
Descriptors: Interactive Video, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses, Conservation (Environment)
Mullens, Jo Beth – Journal of Geography, 2016
Charging undergraduate geography students with the task of designing a recreational trail in their local community offers an engaging experiential opportunity with potential to advance geographic learning in a real-world setting. This article presents an assignment in which students were asked to develop a recreational trail proposal for an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Recreational Facilities, Assignments
Cox, Helen M. – Journal of Geography, 2012
Over 3,900 trees on a university campus were inventoried by an instructor-led team of geography undergraduates in order to quantify the carbon sequestration associated with biomass growth. The setting of the project is described, together with its logistics, methodology, outcomes, and benefits. This hands-on project provided a team of students…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Campuses, Forestry
Yeung, Stephen – Journal of Geography, 2010
This study determines the impact of problem-based learning on a preuniversity geography class. Learning activities include problem analysis, information collection, an examination of concepts, oral presentations, and group summaries in relation to current and perennial geographical issues of local and/or global concern. Assessment "for"…
Descriptors: Geography, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Resler, Lynn M.; Kolivras, Korine N. – Journal of Geography, 2009
This article presents a field technique that exposes students to the indirect effects of habitat fragmentation on plant distributions through studying edge effects. This assignment, suited for students in an introductory biogeography or resource geography class, increases students' knowledge of basic biogeographic concepts such as environmental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physical Geography, Natural Resources, Biodiversity
Eflin, James; Sheaffer, Amy L. – Journal of Geography, 2006
A call for combining the strengths of geographic education with environmental education to produce an "education for sustainability" addresses local problems for sustainable development. A place-based approach encourages civic responsibility among students. Using service-learning to extend education beyond the classroom in this case study…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Case Studies
Medley, Kimberly E.; Zhou, Ying; Condon, Darcy – Journal of Geography, 2006
This paper describes collaborative student research on waste management that first compiled home interviews with women professors in Oxford, Ohio, USA, and Beijing, China, on household reuse for a graduate thesis and then communicated the findings in a handbook for undergraduate students. The women participants described diverse household reuse…
Descriptors: Student Research, Sanitation, Interviews, Women Faculty
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Graf, William L. – Journal of Geography, 1976
This paper represents an attempt to trace the development of the change in American attitudes toward resources and the environment and to analyze past, present, and future trends in resource development and environmental protection. (Author)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Land Use, Natural Resources
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Holtgrieve, Donald G. – Journal of Geography, 1975
Environmental impact statements are informational documents representing a systematic study of long- and short-term relations between a proposed project and its environments (i.e. physical, social, economic, etc.), written for the layman, and easily adapted to the classroom for use in student research activities. (JR)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education, Geography
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Marotz, Glen A.; Merchant, James W., Jr. – Journal of Geography, 1975
The results of a study to determine the farmer's state of awareness of agricultural water pollution and soil erosion are reported. (DE)
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Farmers
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Vale, Thomas R. – Journal of Geography, 1985
Conservation's concern for utility and beauty are not readily and consistently associated with either side of the liberal/conservative dichotomy or with any specific place on the conventional political spectrum. The politics of those trying to save the forests of Central America illustrate these points. (RM)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Conservatism, Ecology, Forestry
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Wood, J. David; Harrison, David T. – Journal of Geography, 1982
A college-level summer course that combines both ethics and the practice of conservation is described. Through intensive reading and discussion, students develop a personal conservation ethic. They also take field trips, listen to guest speakers, prepare school nature lessons, and plan a conservation area. (JA)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education, Course Descriptions, Ecology
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Hirshorn, Arthur – Journal of Geography, 1981
This essay discusses threats to wildlife posed by technological advances and human population growth. It presents evidence that habitats are being destroyed by pollution, exploitation of virgin lands, energy resource extraction, and other rapidly changing conditions. The author proposes a coordinated global effort to preserve vanishing species.…
Descriptors: Animals, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Geography
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