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Explore Surface Types on a Journey Around Earth
Students explore satellite data. In this technology cross-curriculum math and world geography lesson, students locate specific map areas using a microset of satellite data. Students use technology and math skills to determine percentages...
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Cross Country Adventure
Students practice measurement and geography in this lesson. They build a Lego vehicle using an RCX. They predict how many seconds it will take their vehicle to reach a specific state on the United States of America map that each group of...
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Earth at Night
Students examine the Earth at night. In this geography lesson, students identify the continents at night using various Internet Web sites. This lesson may be adapted for use with middle school and high school students.
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Day to Day Life in a Small African Village
Students analyze life in a village of Tanzania including its language, geography, health, and hygiene issues. In this African village instructional activity, students locate Tanzania and its capital city on a map. Students...
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Map Maker, Map Maker
Map maker, map maker, make me a map! Your class can sing this tune as they work to create their own regional maps by taping paper to the wall, projecting an overhead transparency image, and tracing. Where this lesson plan intends for the...
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Ring of Fire
Students locate some of the 1,500 active volcanoes on a world map. Then by comparing their maps with a map of the world's tectonic plates, they discover that volcanoes occur because of the dynamic nature of the Earth's lithosphere.
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Students use the internet to research the location of their summer vacation trip. Given the demographics, they plot the location on a world map. They create a brochure using the information they collected. Using PowerPoint, they develop...
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Question What You Read
Readers test their reading comprehension after reading a nonfiction text about Paleo Indians. (This text is in Alabama: It's History and Geography, but other texts can be used.) After reading the nonfiction article as a class, they...
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An Audio Travel Album
Students interview a person who recently visited a country they are interested in knowing more about. Using the Internet, they research the country noting the geography and economic situations of the country. In groups, they import the...
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Food and Culture, Past and Present in Choctaw Culture
Students explore the Choctow culture. In this Choctow lesson, students use their research skills to create presentations that feature Choctow geography, resources, tradition, foods, and health issues.
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Canaan and Ancient Israel
Planning for your next activity on ancient Israel, but not sure where to start? Check out this assortment of activities to help get the ball rolling. It includes a range of ideas on topics, such as Greek and Egyptian mythology,...
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"Place the State" Game
Students participate in a computer game in which they locate and place the U.S. states on a blank outline map. In small groups, they take turns dragging and dropping the states in the proper location on a map.
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States in the USA Quiz
In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 50 identification questions about the states in the United States of America. Students have 4 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Facts, Fictions and Perceptions of Regions
Students examine the different characteristics of the regions of the United States. They discuss places they have visited in the U.S., and in small groups conduct research on a selected region of the U.S. Each group labels a map of...
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The Geography of Maine Tourism
Young scholars study topographical maps of Maine to identify the important physical features. They work in groups to create tourism pamphlet highlighting a region of the state.
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Vermont Map, Word Search, Scrambled Places and Crossword Puzzle
In this geography worksheet, students learn the important physical features and major cities in the state of Vermont by completing any of the 5 worksheets. There is a free form map, a "label me" map, word search, scrambled places and...
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Map Quiz 1
In this map quiz 1 worksheet, learners answer questions relating to geography, not interactively, then scroll down to see the answers.
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Lost in Uruguay
This quiz on the culture and geography of Uruguay may serve best as a sponge activity for those who have finished an assignment. Questions are multiple-choice, and each correct answer is worth 15 points. Quiz-takers must earn 1000 points...
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The Geography of Tornadoes OR
Students learn some basic facts about tornadoes and map two selected tornado statistics by state, and observe, analyze and speculate about the pattern(s) created by the completed map.
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A Geography and Ecology Lesson for Grades 4-7
Young scholars explore many of the unusual geographical features of the Amazon River region, and explain the importance of preserving the tropical rainforest.
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Discovering the Northwest Territories Through the Five Themes of Geography
Young scholars use the Atlas of Canada to find basic geographical information about the Northwest Territories.
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New Hampshire and the Five Themes of Geography
Students explore the location, place, human-environmental interactions, movement, and regions of the New Hampshire landscape through the use of visual representations.
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World: Physical Map
In this world physical map instructional activity, students make note of the major landforms located on this Robinson projection map.
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World Map and Globe- Introduction to Symbols
Young scholars investigate picture symbols. In this symbols instructional activity, students define symbols and discuss symbols that they see in everyday life. Young scholars identify symbols on maps by using post-it notes.
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