I use this resource and the North Korea one to do a comparison with my students in class. The kids love it. It really shows them the differences between the two countries. Great resource! Students used with 6th grade Students were engaged ...
I’ve decided to assign this as required reading to my Geography of Race and Ethnicity class, because it’s impossible to talk about the history of Dodger Stadium without a greater picture of race, ethnicity, class and policing in Los Angeles. It’s also beautifully written by Angeleno and ...
I use two types of writing assignments in the class. Since free-response questions comprise 50 percent of the AP Human Geography Exam, all unit tests include free- response questions. Students also practice writing free-responses from time to time throughout the year. These responses are graded...
Class exercise: Use the description of financial flows above to draw an annotated diagram or a map to show the financial flows associated with the manufacturing of vehicles in Mexico. If you can think of additional flows that might be important, add those as well. Compare your diagram/map ...
Other (higher class) houses deposited their sewage in open holes in the ground which allowed the wastes to separate, with the liquids permeating into the subsoil and the solids accumulating. Not exactly ideal in terms of public health! The town council called for the construction of more of ...
Senator Scott Ludlam, the party's shadow minister (spokesperson) for housing called Australia's housing affordability a "world-class outrage." He went on to say "When a family or an individual has to spend so much of their income on paying their mortgage, it has a seriously adverse affect...
“Half of the working population toils in the informal economy – parking cars, cleaning houses, packing groceries, selling things on the street. The middle class is squeezed month by month rather than daily, while perhaps 10% has a jolly time with plenty of discretionary income. According to...
Air Quality in Latin America: An Overview(May 2013; pdf file) Six Mexican cities were included in the study: Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Ciudad Juárez and León. However, only limited data were available for Puebla, Cd. Juárez and León. One of the main conclusions of th...
Bourdieu believes that taste is the means of identifying class distinction. He argues that these differences are most obvious in the routine everyday choices in taste of food, furniture, and clothing as they are representative of the pure taste. For example, he argues, children of a lower ...
Effects of Seating Location and Stereoscopic Display on Learning Outcomes in an Introductory Physical Geography Class. J. Geosci. Educ. 2014, 62, 126–137. [CrossRef] 42. Stojšic´, I.; Ivkov Džigurski, A.; Maricˇic´, O.; Ivanovic´ Bibic´, L.; Đukicˇin Vucˇkovic...