The purpose of this class study of “sugarcane field” which studies the meaning of the geography learning does that it develops class practice which can realize the meaning of the geography learning and clarifies the meaning of geography learning through the class practice with the purpose. In this study, it was defined as the landscape is a total of the geographic element with a general impression on a sense. In short, it did be caught as a result of being subjective landscape that changes by a knowledge and value the observer has. Like this, the class which could experience that the landscape changes with the increase in a knowledge of the observer was developed by catching the landscape. To begin with, the photograph which took the scene of 2 sheets was presented, and the impression was described. The observer noticed the element of the landscape which received the description, when the video was viewed, after the description of the region was head. By it, it would have the impression unlike the impression in the beginning in the region. In addition, by watching the slide of the equal region, while it listened to the music which made the scar of the war to be a theme, in having the feeling in which the impression with the beginning completely differs, the region will be viewed. That is to say, the landscape of the region did change clearly for the observer. Still, the region was made to be the Yoronjima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in this study. By learning the geography, the learner suited the environment, and again, the process of becoming a human who changes the environment was able to be clarified in this study. The meaning of the geography learning is that the change of the landscape of the learner which learned through the geography clarified in this study can greatly contribute to the human formation.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the spatial structure and characteristics of tourism activities of women living in northern residential area of Sendai City. What we are concerned particularly here are the changes in women's tourism activities by life-stage. A questionnaire survey on one-day recreation, lodging tourism and overseas tourism in the past one year was held in July, 1999 for this study.
The results of our study can be summarized as follows.
All the destinations of one-day recreation concentrate within a sphere with 180km radius from home. But, the spatial structure of lodging tourism presents different patterns according to the time periods. The destinations of one-night lodging tourism concentrate within a sphere with 350km radius from home, while some destinations of two-nights lodging tourism distribute in the nationwide range. On the one hand, destinations of two or fewer nights lodging tourism concentrate along the south-north axis composed by the Tohoku Expressway and Shinkansen. On the other hand, the destinations of three or more nights lodging tourism distribute throughout the whole country.
We can find the relationship between destination selection and purpose, companion, transport approaches and seasons. Furthermore, women's intention such as for shopping and food can also be found in destination selection.
There exists a significant relationship between women's tourism activities and their life-stage, which is divided by marriage, the birth of the first child and the age of the youngest child. With less domestic constraint, both unmarried women and childless married women have a kind of higher frequency and wider space tourism activities. And most of unmarried women take tour with their friends.
Compare with it, the tourism activities of married women with children present a kind of lower frequency and narrower space pattern if their youngest children are still infants. And the majority of their companions are limited to their family members. Although their tourism activities become higher in frequency and wider in space as their youngest children grow up, their companions don't change. This phenomenon suggests that the tourism activities of married women with children have been influenced greatly by childcare.
The tourism activities of married women with children begin to change when their children entered junior high school. Their tourism activity spaces turn to be narrower and they always tour with their husbands or friends as their children grow up. They can decide their tourism purposes by themselves. It can be thought as a result of the independence of their children.

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