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Geography Connections: People in Communities, a Weekly Reader publication

| January 01, 1993 | COPYRIGHT 1993 Weekly Reader Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If today's students are to become fully responsible and productive citizens of the 21st century, they will need to know more than name-place geography. Schoolchildren are citizens of a global society, and their daily lives are impacted by world events. As they grow and learn, students will need broad geographic knowledge in order to fully understand and appreciate issues about different people and places.

Reflecting this new approach, the Weekly Reader GEOGRAPHY CONNECTIONS series incorporates the five themes of geography and uses real-life stories about people and places to introduce concepts and ...

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