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This lesson will enable students to use the blues to explore urbanization, technology, and their effects on everyday life in the 20th century. Musicians were among the large number of people who, between 1914 and 1945, participated in the Great Migration, Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discover that material and energy uses by a city come from outside the city boundaries. They realize that the pathway of these material is linear instead of cyclical as they are in natural ecosystems. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students investigate factors causing the heat island effect on the school grounds. They hypothesize about which selected sites have higher and lower temperatures. They discuss their findings as a group. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students compare/contrast rural and urban communities, and view and discuss the images on the Illinois quarter. They discuss Abraham Lincoln's life, complete a chart and a Venn diagram comparing urban and rural settings, and create a postcard. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students discuss how urban rivers have shaped the region in which they live. They research river geology and ecology. They examine a case study of life and living along the Delaware River. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the effects of an urban setting on the development of male adolescence. After watching a film, they identify the problems in the relationship of the characters. They discuss the impact of becoming a teenage father and role play the role in different scenerios. To end the lesson, they watch a video on the changes they should except physically and mentally. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students research how and why economic development, population growth and environmental change affected, and were affected by, the Industrial Revolution. Visual aspects of the lesson will help students actually "see" the changes. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students compare and contrast their local community with a different community in their country. Students create a comparison chart to create a side-by-side representation of their community and the other community. They use their comparison to describe their community to a pen pal. Full Review »
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- 12th
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This Internet-based learning activity challenges the student to find sources online and elsewhere that describe real-world population dilemmas. Student activities include: Creating a working glossary, discussion of population problems. researching hometown population, simulation, writing activity, multimedia presentation, urban planning. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students make inquiry in this model lesson, geographic, historic, economic, social, and political factors are introduced to help explain how certain places came to be populated and developed into what they are today, and to predict what they might become in the future. Using Internet information, satellite technology, CD-ROM databases, and other geographic software, teacher candidates explore concepts of urban place location. Full Review »
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