Paths are trails you can explore. A common comment I get is that students have a hard time thinking of things to talk about in discussion or write about in their papers. If you find yourself in such a position, go explore one of the Paths. I've selected ones that can be followed in some depth on the Internet, though if you really get interested you will want to go visit the library too.

The Paths are not an assignment. They are simply a convenient packaging of information, sometimes with comments and questions  to help you in your exploration. Try one of the following or, better, find your own path and share what you learn with class in your geographic reports. 

Paths: Orientation

Virtual Fieldtrips   Many of you want to be educators. One Internet tool for teaching about places is the Virtual Fieldtrip. What is the difference between an educational, informative fieldtrip and an electronic postcard or worse an unvarnished advertisement? Take some of the virtual fieldtrips below and comment on what makes a good virtual fieldtrip. Post your findings to the class on blackboard as a geographic report.

1. The Degree Confluence Project. http://www.confluence.org/
   The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.
    

2. The Bosnia Virtual Fieldtrip
    

3. Kazakstan The Aral Sea
    

4. Some Non Government Organizations (NGOs) use their fieldtrips to inform and also to entice donors to make charitable contributions.  Evaluate the following fieldtrips from Doctors without borders and compare with those from Care USA:
   

5. Doctors without Borders  Virtual tour of a refugee camp For those planning to be teachers pay close attention to the learning activities on famine and refugee issues
   

6. "Photo galleries from CARE's award-winning Virtual Field Trips:"

Bolivia	Ecuador	Ghana
Guatemala	Haiti	Honduras
Kosovo	Madagascar	Mali
Nepal	Peru	Peru 2001

7. Antarctica Travel from New Zealand to McMurdo Station, and read about the different scientific facilities located in Antarctica from the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica.
   

8. A Virtual Tour of the Louvre Museum 60 panoramic inside and outside-views of the Louvre Museum Paris.
   

Economic Geography - the text focuses largely on how the world is changing because of globalization. Globalization takes many forms.

The Geography of Breakfast: Coffee and Globalization

Basic geographic concepts include space, place, area. What is a region and how do we define it?

Vernacular Regions: Where is the South

What is the geography of justice?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The International Criminal Court - why  the US is so opposed

Historical Geography - how have human and natural landscapes changed?

1491

The Iceman

The Great Vowel Shift The Great Vowel Shift was a massive sound change affecting the long vowels of English during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries.  

Paths

Orientation

Human

Physical 

World

Russia

East Asia

South Asia

North Africa/ SW Asia

Latin America

North America

Human

Physical