Activities to develop a spatial perspective among students in introductory geography courses

Journal of Geography

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 243-250

  Oldakowski, Raymond K ^a  

^a JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choropleth maps; Spatial distributions; Spatial perspective

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEACHING;

EID: 0035713294     PISSN: 00221341     EISSN: 17526868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221340108978451     Document Type: Article

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