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Grade Range
4th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students use the five themes of geography; 1) location, 2) place, 3) human interaction and the environment, 4) movement and communication, and 5) regions. Full Review »

Grade Range
4th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students develop an awareness of how world events, geography, and cultures inter-relate. They use longitude and latitude to reinforce their place in geography. They use the five themes of geography. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students follow the study of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and attempts to connect the thematic underpinnings of the novel to Students' own lives. Full Review »

Grade Range
4th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students use the five themes of geography. They utilize any media source - TV, radio, newspaper, magazines, etc. Using the five themes, they break down and analyze a news event and report to the class. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students discuss what they know about world leaders. In groups, they work together to complete an exercise on the board. They practice using new vocabulary words and match them with their definitions. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students discuss what they know about the World Cup and Football. In groups, they work together to match the new vocabulary words with their definitions. They read an article about the World Cup and answer questions. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students in an ESL classroom compare and contrast Puetro Rican and Mexican cultures. In groups, they research the reasons why people leave one country for another and how to obtain a visa. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the misconceptions that face immigrants when they come to the United States and debate the issue of bilingual education. Full Review »

Grade Range
11th - Higher Ed
Rating
5 Stars

Student play an online Sim City type game from the BBC website in which they complete a World Food Programme mission. They investigate the causes and of hunger in different parts of the world and then research a particular region's hunger problem. They use this information to create a proposal for their own computer game in which players tackle world hunger. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students are able to analyze how a variety of cities both in the USA and abroad have worked to improve human health and environment. They combine their prior knowledge of previous lessons and apply that knowledge to compare how each city is trying to create what urban planners today call "sustainable cities." Full Review »

Grade Range
8th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students read about the Geneva Convention, Paris peace treaties, and Kyoto protocol. After discussing the importance of each event, students choose vocabulary words from their readings and answer questions dealing with the topic. Full Review »