A student exercise in picking the location for a new public university campus

What is it about?

This is a site location exercise to help students in an Introduction to Geography course practice spatial thinking. It uses a hypothetical example set in Connecticut.

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Why is it important?

Site location exercises are very useful activities for geography courses for they give students a chance to practice spatial thinking, and see the sort of tasks that geographers perform in the real world. Students learn better when the topic relates to their own lives, and asking students to think about the accessibility of college campuses should resonate with them.