DOCUMENT RESUME ED 383 623 SO 024 984 AUTHOR Martinson, Tom, Ed.; Brooker-Gross, Susan, Ed. TITLE Revisiting the Americas: Teaching and Laarning the Geography of the Western Hemisphere. Pathways in Geography Series, Title No.4. INSTITUTION National Council for Geographic Education. REPORT NO ISBN-0-9627379-2-5 PUB DATE 92 NOTE 280p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council for Geographic Education, 16-A Leonard Hall, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705 ($25.00). PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Instructional Materials (For Learner) (051) Guides Classroom-Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher)(052) EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS American Indian History; *American Indians; Area Studies; *Cross Cultural Studies; Culture; Ethhic Groups; Foreign Countries; *Geography; *Latin American Culture; Latin American History; *Latin Americans; North American History; Spanish Culture; Western Civilization IDENTIFIERS North America; South America; Western Hemisphere ABSTRACT This book, issued in observance of the Columbus Quincentennial and on the occasion of the 27th International Geographical Congress, addresses a broad range of contemporary topics including environmental change, dynamics of the world economy, human needs, wants and rights, political order and change, and contemporary cultures. The format is one of essays and complementary learning activities, including one essay and two activities in Spanish. Divided into five sections, section 1, "Environmental Change," contains the following essays:(1) "The Changing Use of Water in the Americas" (Lee);(2) "Streamflow" (Bock);(3) "The Effects of Volcanoes on the Landscapes and Peoples of the Americas"(Romey); (4) "Volcanoes and Human Activities in the Caribbean (Bencloski);(5) "The Global Effect of El Nino" (Caviedes);(6) "Teaching El Nino" (Prorok);(7) "Tropical and Temperate Rainforests" (Hansis); (8) "Humans, Owls, and Trees" (Beaman and Osborne); and (9) "Deforestation on Trial" (Sandmeier). Section 2, "World Economy," contains the following: (1) "United States Regir.s and the Global Economy" (Warf);(2) "Prisms of Promise--Selected Regions of the United States" (Marren);(3) "What is an 'American' Car? Global Interdependency in the Automotive Industry" (Rubinstein); (4) "The Automobile Worksheet" (Willman);(5) "Transportation and Urban Life" (Hodge);(6) "Planning a Light Rail System" (Speer);(7) "The Drug Industry in the Americas: The Andean Cocaine Connection" (Gerlach); (8) "Eradicating Coca" (S. Bednarz; R. Bednarz; and Walk) (9) "Editor's Note to Accompany 'A Planter's Day' by John G. Stedman" (Martinson); and (10) "Owning Slaves in Caribbean Colonial Plantation Culture" (Prorok). Section 3, "Human Needs and the Political Order," contains the following: (1) "Engendering the Discovery of the New World" (Momsen);(2) "Rural to Urban Migration in the Americas" (Whitsell);(3) "Regional Variation in Quality of Life in the Americas" (Greenow); (4) "Teaching the Quality of Life" (Crews); (5) "The Far South of the New World: South American Antarctica and the Southern Islands" (Child); (6) "The Development of Antarctica" (Sandmeier);(7) "Migration Trends in the Americas" (Conway);(8) "The Exponential Factor and Population Growth" (Pierson);(9) "The World in a Grain of Sand: Global Restructuring and Neighborhood Activism in Tucson, Arizona" (Marston); and (10) "Tucson Neighborhoods:" (Priest). Section 4, "Contemporary Cultures," lists the following:(1) "Reading the City Landscape as a Primary Document" (Salter);(2) "How to Read a City" (Salter);(3) "Steel Drums of Trinidad" (Dendinger);(4) "The Recipe for Steel Bands" (Willman); (5) "Geography of Religious Belief Systems" (Weightman); (6)"Scales of Religious Diversity" (Prorok); (7) "Women and Food in the Caribbean: A Study of St. Lucia" (Fredrich); and (8) "Do You Know Where Your Next Meal Is Coming From?" (Sharma). Section 5, "Voices from the South," contains: (1) "Ciudades Primadas y Regiones en la America Latina" (Elbow);(2) "Buenos Aires: Poblacion, Desarrollo y Futuro" (Barros); and (3) "Los Andes y el Regionalismo en el Ecuador" (Guillen). Contains a selected bibliography and a list of contributors. (EH) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 11 Pathways in Geography Revisiting the Series The National Americas Council for Geographic Teaching and Learningthe Education Geography of the Western Hemisphere Edited by Tom Martinson, PhD Auburn University and Susan Brooker-Gross, PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement UCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has Peen reproduced as erved from the person or organaatron ongmatmg d 0 Mmot changes have De en made to improve reproduction qualify points of view 0" oP..OnS staled in trfisdocu ment do not necessarily represent of frc.al OERI posdon or POhOy S "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCETHIS BY M ERIAL HAS BE>GRANTED TO THE EDUCATIONALRESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." BEST COPYAVAILABLE 2 Titles in the PATHWAYS IN GEOGRAPHY Series 1. Gersmehl, Philip J. 1991. The Language of Maps. 2. Andrews, Sona Karentz, Amy Otis- Wilborn and Trinka Messenheimer-Young. 1991. Beyond Seeing and Hearing: Teaching Geography to Sensory Impaired ChildrenAn Integrated Based Curriculum Approach. 3. Waterstone, Marvin. 1992. Water in the Global Environment. 4. Martinson, Tom L. and Susan R. Brooker-Gross, Editors. 1992. Revisiting the Americas: Teaching and Learning the Geography of the Western Hemisphere. Special Publications Advisory Board Martha B. Sharma, Director of Special Publications, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C. Walter Kemball, York University, Ontario Janice Monk, University of Arizona John Benhart, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania National Council for Geographic Education Officers 1992 Michael J. Libbee, President, Central Michigan University Douglas A. Phillips, Vice President, Curriculum and Instruction, Anchorage School District, Alaska Muncel Chang, Vice President, Curriculum and Instruction, Forest Ranch, California M. Duane Nellis, Vice President, Research and External Relations, Kansas State University Martha B. Sharma, Vice President, Publications and Products, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C. James F. Petersen, Vice President, Finance, Southwest Texas State University Norman C. Bettis, Past President, Illinois State University Sandra F. Pritchard, Recording Secretary, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Ruth I. Shirey, Executive Director, Indiana University of Pennsylvania National Council for Geographic Education 16-A Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 Pathways in Geography evisitint e Series The National erica Council for Geographic Teaching and Learning the Education Geography of the Western THE PATHWAYS IN GEOGRAPHY SERIES Hemisphere has been created by the Special Publications Advisory Board of the National Council for Geographic Education to support the teaching and learning of themes, concepts, and skills edited by in geography at all levels of instruction. Tom Martinson, PhD Auburn University and Susan Brooker-Gross, PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 4 PATHWAYS IN GEOGRAPHY Series Tide No. 4 Revisiting the Americas Teaching and Learning the Geography of the Western Hemisphere Lisa A. Kuhns: Desktop Publishing Donna CashdolLar: Cover Design Kenneth Engelbrecht: Cartography Copyright ®1992 by the National Council for Geographic Education All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except that materials may be copied by educators for classroom use only without obtaining permission. For information about this title or about the series: National Council for Geographic Education Leonard Hall 16A, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 ISBN 0-9627379-2-5 Printed in the United States of America 5 II Introduction The year 1992 may well be remembered as the year the maps changed. Rapidly moving world events have triggered unification on one hand, and dissolution on the other. Political boundaries have been redefined, changing the way we perceive our world. No less dramatic were the events of SOO years ago when, in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailing in search of Asia, made landfall in the islands of the eastern Caribbean. That fateful voyage did not mark the first contact between Eastern and Western Hemispheres: others had occurred before. It did mark, however, a point of change. Two worlds that had previously existed in relative isolation were irreversibly joined. For good or ill, peoples and cultures would never again be the same. Maps were redrawn, and the worlds they represented were seen in new light. Just as 1992 is a time to reflect on the events of 1492, with all of the socio-economic and political changes that resulted, so too is it a time to consider the present status of the Western Hemisphere -- a time to Revisit the Americas. In observance of the Columbus Quincentennial and on the occasion of the 27th International Geographical Congress, the National Council for Geographic Education has produced Revisiting the Americas: Teaching and Learning the Geography