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Using ArcGIS Field Maps in the Classroom 在教室中使用ArcGIS现场地图
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2117719
Kalyn M. Rossiter
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Mapping Song Lyrics in an Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Course: A Lesson Using ArcGIS Online 在地理信息系统导论课程中绘制歌词:使用ArcGIS在线课程
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2117721
Joseph Tokosh
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Craft Breweries, Neolocalism, and the Geography Classroom 精酿啤酒厂、新地方主义和地理教室
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2117722
Robert Briwa
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Editor’s Notebook 编辑器的笔记本
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2131145
Rebecca Theobald
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The South Carolina Healthy Communities Index: Visualizing Health Inequality Using Interactive Maps and Dashboards 南卡罗来纳州健康社区指数:使用交互式地图和仪表板可视化健康不平等
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2117720
Steve Borders
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Teaching and Learning GIS in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from GIS Professors from an Autoethnographic Perspective* 新冠肺炎时代GIS的教学与学习:地理信息系统教授的自我民族学视角*
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2072360
C. M. Thompson, F. Bowlick
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Challenges and Obstacles of Teaching Geography during the First Wave of COVID-19 Outbreaks: Lessons Learned from Several Provinces in Indonesia 第一波COVID-19疫情期间地理教学的挑战和障碍:来自印度尼西亚几个省份的经验教训
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2080243
A. Ashari, E. P. N. Saputro, S. Jamaludin
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Kindergarten Geography Classrooms: The Way Forward Amid COVID-19 幼儿园地理课堂:新冠疫情下的前进之路
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2079703
S. Shekhar
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Validating the Spaces of Our Lives in Geography Education: A Response to the Pandemic 在地理教育中验证我们的生活空间:对大流行的反应
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2070235
A. Rees, Marlena Harwood, Maggie Praley, B. Wee, Thomas A Duster
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To Conference or Not to Conference? 开会还是不开会?
The Geography Teacher Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19338341.2022.2092532
Larianne Collins
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