World Geography Series. Keyed to a version of the five themes of geography (plus an extra theme, "The Uses of Geography"), each of these videocassettes contains six CNN news segments from the 1990's and is accompanied by a teacher's guide with discussion topics, activity ideas, and lists of pertinent internet addresses.

Earthquake in Kobe, Japan; post-Soviet Islamic women resuming traditional roles; monsoons as boon and disaster; economic synergy from cooperation of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China; new techniques for growing rice in Thailand: ecotourism in Nepal.