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Indian Ocean in World History

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The Indian Ocean Basin is becoming an important topic in middle and high school world history and geography courses, but one for which there are few instructional resources. This web-based resource helps teachers incorporate the Indian Ocean into world history studies by illustrating a variety of interactions that took place in the Indian Ocean during each era. The material is assembled into an integrated and user-friendly teaching tool for students in upper elementary, middle and high school. It offers students the chance to investigate primary sources that illustrate historical interactions, helping them to become more adept at the analytical historical thinking skills that are required by virtually all state history standards today.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Cultural Geography; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Social Science; World Cultures; World History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Diagram/Illustration; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Reading; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Middle East Institute
Provider Set:: Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
Date Added:: 10/30/2012

Individual Choices, Collective Impacts

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This is a group of assignments developed for GEO 100: Introduction to Geography at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD. There are three activities that work together to help students assess the connections between ecological destruction and modern forms of slavery in the context of thier own everyday lives. Although not addressed in the materials, it should be noted that individual choices only go so far, and that the discourse of "consumer choice" can oftentimes serve as a distraction from the broader structural reforms necessary to fully and effectively address climate change.The attached Word document provides instructor background, assignment information and tasks that can be pasted into an LMS, assessment guidelines for crafting rubirics, two links to assignment worksheets, and one link to a final project PowerPoint template.

Subject:: Anthropology; Cultural Geography; Environmental Studies; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan
Author:: Bradley Austin
Date Added:: 05/07/2021

Information and Communication Technology in Africa

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This is a discussion-based, interactive seminar on the development of information and communication technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. The students will seek to understand the issues surrounding designing and instituting policy, and explore the possible ways in which they can make an impact on information and communication technology in Africa.

Subject:: Applied Science; Business and Communication; Career and Technical Education; Cultural Geography; Electronic Technology; Engineering; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Bobbili, Raja; Miyagawa, Shigeru
Date Added:: 02/01/2006

Inquiry of the Public Sort, Volume 2

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More Microstudies in Public Administration and Public Affairs

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A collection of small-scale research projects in matters of public administration and public affairs, carried out by graduate students in the Programs of Public Affairs, University of Utah.

Long Description:
Public affairs graduate students enrolled in Dr. David Carter’s fall 2021 Research Design course once again embarked on a somewhat unorthodox curriculum, executing complete research projects from start to finish in 15 weeks. The result was seven microstudies that tackle prescient topics with both practical and scholarly importance, including: consumers’ motivations regarding sustainable product purchases, American support for U.S. policy towards the United Nations, the impact of contemporary “critical race theory” debates on teachers and education, wildfire causes and consequences across jurisdictions, the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on single mothers, and the affect of state policies on queer youth. The studies are diverse in epistemological underpinnings and research methods—ranging from critical and interpretivist qualitative investigations to quantitative analysis of secondary data—but are united in their collective attention to research design fidelity and concern for findings with “public” relevance.

Word Count: 32795

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Subject:: Business and Communication; Cultural Geography; Management; Mathematics; Social Science; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Public Sort Press
Date Added:: 02/14/2022

The Institute of Agricultural Medicine

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An Iowa Idea—Worldwide Impact

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A memoir and history of the Institute of Agricultural Medicine at the University of Iowa, emphasizing its role in the development of the study and practice of occupational and environmental health and medicine for farmers their families and workers.

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The Institute of Agricultural Medicine at the University of Iowa played an important role in bringing scholarly and professional attention to the health and safety of farmers and rural residents. Its impact is evident in many professional education opportunities available to health care providers today. The Institute also engaged in foundational research on the health and safety of farmers. This text tells from the personal perspectives of the authors the story of the institute, its national and international connections and influence, and its key people over its decades-long history.

Word Count: 54663

ISBN: 978-0-578-89097-5

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Subject:: Applied Science; Cultural Geography; Health, Medicine and Nursing; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Kelley J. Donham
Author:: Kelley J. Donham; William McCulloch
Date Added:: 04/28/2021

Instructor Notes: Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, Second Edition

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This lab manual is a cross-institutional project from British Columbia (BC), Canada that provides 24 labs to be implemented within first year post-secondary physical geography courses. The labs have been developed to be easily adapted for various course structures, durations, and differing laboratory learning objectives set out by instructors. Instructor notes are available for each lab that outline the instructional intent of the lab author, along with some suggestions for modifications. The lab manual is licenced under a creative common license (refer to licensing information) so that the lab modules can be modified as needed. The second edition of this lab manual was created for the onset of the 2021/22 academic year.

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Physical geography lab exercises tend to be crafted for internal institutional use only. In light of the need to have online laboratory material for remote instruction, a group of geography instructors from across British Columbia (BC), Canada came together for this collaborative project with the goal of producing a cross-institutional open education resource (OER) laboratory manual for first-year post-secondary physical geography courses. The lab manual consists of 24 labs that cover an introduction to physical geography, weather and climate, biogeography, map and geospatial skills, hydrology, geomorphology, and landform identification. Many of the labs have a BC setting; however, they are useable across Canada and further abroad. The majority of the labs have been developed so that they can be done in any order to increase instructor flexibility and promote adaptability to differing course structures and durations. Many of the labs have students using live data, or built-in flexibility with datasets for instructors in order to prevent the lab exercises becoming static over time. The lab manual is licenced under a creative common license (refer to licensing information) so that the lab modules can be modified as needed by instructors to meet the learning outcomes of their students.

The second edition of this lab manual was created in the spring and summer of 2021 for the 2021/22 academic year and beyond. The second edition features substantial revisions to the labs and instructor notes for consistency and effectiveness, a reordering of the lab numbers, and two new labs (lab 07 and 19).

Word Count: 39337

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Subject:: Cultural Geography; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Chani Welch; Stuart MacKinnon; et al.
Date Added:: 08/30/2021

Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy

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During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). He provided new perspectives on issues of access, privilege, and the global water crisis through a series of seminars, performances, and workshops. Carpenter's seminars illustrated ways of disrupting systems of oppression and ways to increase access to potable water in politically marginalized communites in the United States and abroad.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Cultural Geography; Education; Political Science; Social Science; Visual Arts; World Cultures
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Carpenter II, B. Stephen; Susskind, Lawrence
Date Added:: 09/01/2017

Interdisciplinary ELT Activities for Gifted

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This open resource is designed as an example of interdisciplinary activities on History, Geography and Arts to be used in ELT classes .

Subject:: Ancient History; Cultural Geography; English Language Arts; Language Education (ESL); Languages; Visual Arts
Material Type:: Lesson
Author:: Emine Sayar
Date Added:: 10/19/2020

Interdisciplinary ELT Activities for Gifted

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This open resource is designed as an example of interdisciplinary activities on History, Geography and Arts to be used in ELT classes .

Subject:: Ancient History; Cultural Geography; Language Education (ESL); Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Languages; Special Education; Visual Arts; World Cultures
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy; Unit of Study
Author:: Emine Sayar
Date Added:: 10/19/2020

Introduction to Geography

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A text for a one-quarter course on the introduction to both physical and human geography.

Word Count: 96050

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Subject:: Cultural Geography; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Date Added:: 01/26/2024

Introduction to Human-Environment Geography: A Laboratory Manual

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Laboratory manual designed for use in introductory college courses.

Word Count: 13768

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Subject:: Cultural Geography; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Date Added:: 09/21/2021

Introduction to Human Geography

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Human geography emphasizes the importance of geography as a field of inquiry and introduces students to the concept of spatial organization. Knowing the location of places, people, and events is a gateway to understanding complex environmental relationships and interconnections among places and across landscapes.

Geographic concepts emphasize location, space, place, scale of analysis, pattern, regionalization, and globalization. These concepts are essential to understanding spatial interaction and spatial behavior, the dynamics of human population growth and migration, patterns of culture, political control of territory, areas of agricultural production, the changing location of industry and economic development strategies, and evolving human settlement patterns, particularly urbanization. Geographers use geospatial technology (e.g., satellite imagery, aerial photography, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and drone technology), spatial data, mathematical formulas, and design models to understand the world from a spatial perspective better.

Human geography enables us to consider the regional organization of various phenomena and encourages geographic analysis to understand processes in a changing world. For example, geographic perspectives on the impact of human activities on the environment, from local to global scales, include effects on land, water, atmosphere, population, biodiversity, and climate. These human ecological examples are inherent throughout the discipline, especially in topics dealing with population growth, agricultural and industrial practices, and rapid urbanization. Geographers apply geographic methods and geospatial technologies to a variety of situations.

Subject:: Cultural Geography; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Author:: R. Adam Dastrup
Date Added:: 12/11/2019

Introduction to Human Geography

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A Sustainable Development Perspective

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Subject:: Applied Science; Cultural Geography; Environmental Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Date Added:: 09/01/2020

Introduction to Human Geography - 2nd Edition

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Introduction to Human Geography - 2nd Edition

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Geography is a diverse discipline that has some sort of connection to most every other academic discipline. This connection is the spatial perspective, which essentially means if a phenomenon can be mapped, it has some kind of relationship to geography. Studying the entire world is a fascinating subject, and geographical knowledge is fundamental to a competent understanding of our world. In this chapter, you will learn what geography is as well as some of the fundamental concepts that underpin the discipline. These fundamental terms and concepts will be interwoven throughout the text, so a sound understanding of these topics is critical as you delve deeper into the chapters that follow.

Subject:: Cultural Geography; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: University System of Georgia
Provider Set:: Galileo Open Learning Materials
Author:: David Dorrell; Joseph P. Henderson
Date Added:: 11/18/2021

Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach

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Welcome! Bienvenidos! Bienvenue! 환영합니다 Բարի գալուստ! 歡迎光臨

Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach is a free eText designed for students enrolled in survey courses in Human/Cultural Geography or US Geography.

This textbook is used by students at California State University, Northridge, and by students at several dozen other colleges and universities. Some high schools are using it for AP Human Geography.

Students enrolled in sections using this text scored better on a variety of standardized assessment measures than those enrolled in sections using another, very popular, text in 2014.

Subject:: Cultural Geography; Social Science
Material Type:: Reading; Textbook
Provider:: California State University Northridge
Author:: Steven M. Graves
Date Added:: 12/13/2022

Introduction to International Development

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This course introduces undergraduates to the basic theory, institutional architecture, and practice of international development. We take an applied, interdisciplinary approach to some of the "big questions" in our field. This course will unpack these questions by providing an overview of existing knowledge and best practices in the field. The goal of this class is to go beyond traditional dichotomies and narrow definitions of progress, well-being, and culture. Instead, we will invite students to develop a more nuanced understanding of international development by offering an innovative set of tools and content flexibility.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Cultural Geography; Economics; History; Social Science; World History
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Ferreira Cardoso, Cauam
Date Added:: 02/01/2015

Introduction to International Development Planning

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This introductory survey course is intended to develop an understanding of key issues and dilemmas of planning in non-Western countries. The issues covered by the course include state intervention, governance, law and institutions in development, privatization, participatory planning, decentralization, poverty, urban-rural linkages, corruption and civil service reform, trade and outsourcing and labor standards, post-conflict development and the role of aid in development.

Subject:: Cultural Geography; Economics; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:: 09/01/2011

Introduction to Latin American Studies

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Interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Latin America, drawing on films, literature, popular press accounts, and scholarly research. Topics include economic development, ethnic and racial identity, religion, revolution, democracy, transitional justice, and the rule of law. Examples draw on a range of countries in the region, especially Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. Includes a heavy oral participation component, with regular breakout groups, formal class presentations on pressing social issues (such as criminal justice and land tenure), and a structured class debate.

Subject:: Anthropology; Arts and Humanities; Cultural Geography; Political Science; Social Science; World Cultures
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Lawson, Chappell
Date Added:: 09/01/2006

Introduction to Latin American Studies

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This course is designed as an introduction to Latin American politics and society for undergraduates at MIT. No background on the region is required. Overall workload (reading, writing, class participation, and examinations) is similar to that of other HASS-D courses. Many of the themes raised here are covered in greater detail in other courses: 21G.020J (New World Literature), 21G.716 (Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature), 21G.730 (Twentieth and Twentyfirst-Century Spanish American Literaturere), 21G.735 (Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film), 21A.220 (The Conquest of America), 21H.802 (Modern Latin America), 3.982 (The Ancient Andean World), 3.983 (Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization), 17.507 (Democratization and Democratic Collapse), and 17.554 (Political Economy of Latin America).F

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Cultural Geography; Philosophy; Political Science; Social Science; World Cultures
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: MIT
Provider Set:: MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:: Lawson, Chappell
Date Added:: 09/01/2005

Introduction to Pacific Ocean Island Geography

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Introduction to Pacific Ocean Island Geography Reading and Assessment

Subject:: Cultural Geography
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Jenoge Khatter
Date Added:: 05/23/2022