Sample Materials from the Teacher's Guide to Modern Geography CD:

Contents Menu* (6.7MB File) Rollover and click through the interactive menus to view the CD contents including brief descriptions of each unit. View a complete list of units in PDF form.   Malaria* (888 KB File) compares maps of precipitation, malaria, and several potential carriers of the disease to illustrate how scientists use map comparison to generate hypotheses about the causes of disease.   Correlation Graphs* (684 KB File) is an introduction to the use of scatterplot graphs to see if two variables are spatially associated..  
Empires: Rome* (1.4MB File) uses an interactive map to show the spread of the empire over several centuries and its persistent influence on European geography.   Command Economy* (1.4MB File) puts students in the role of planners trying to choose good locations for food production in northern Asia.   Mormon Trek* (2.2MB File) examines several geographic factors that came together to influence where people settled when they moved west to escape religious persecution.  

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Purchase the Teaching Geography CD-ROM from the AAG Online Store.
Available as a single copy or a lab pack of 10 copies.
Teaching Geography CD-ROM - $25.00.
Teaching Geography CD-ROM Lab Pack (10 copies) - $200.00.

Purchase Teaching Geography, 2nd Edition by Phil Gersmehl from Guilford Publishing.
(Note: The book includes a copy of the Teaching Geography CD-ROM.
Chapter-based Discussion Overhead Transparencies aligned to the book chapters are also provided on the CD-ROM.)

 
This project was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).