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Environment: Assess Your Habitat's Health

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research their ecozone in Canada and label on maps various parks and wildlife areas. They role-play as doctors with their ecozones as patients and search for symptoms from pollution, urbanization, loss of habitat, and decline of...
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Introduction to the Panpipe

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the panpipe and the cultures that use them in their music. They view photos of Peru and Bolivia and discuss their cultures, listen to recordings of music that includes the panpipe, and construct a panpipe using PVC...
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Walking on Maps

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners are introduced to the various types of maps and their functions. As a class, they play a game similar to twister to review map concepts. They answer questions about the map and use the internet to view larger maps of the world.
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Themes of Geography in the News Contest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners discuss current events in the world today. After choosing one to focus on, they identify the themes of Geography present in them and practice using new vocabulary. They use the internet to find all of the themes present in...
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Where Oh Where on the Playground, Do I Love To Be?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.
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America the Beautiful

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners listen to story America the Beautiful, discuss places in America they have visited, define beautiful, and create and illustrate class book with pictures and words from song, America the Beautiful.
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Wet Water, Dry Land

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars observe and examine relationship between landforms and bodies of water, recognizing differences between them. Students then define island, peninsula, isthmus, archipelago, lake, bay, straight, system of lakes, and identify...
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Urban Planning: Plan a City

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students analyze the concept of urbanization by planning the placement of some of the major urban/suburban features that make up most cities. They arrange the cultural features to benefit the people who live there, and maintain respect...
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Go Bananas! (Lesson One)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the historical and present movements of bananas. Using maps, they locate the countries in which the fruit is grown and identify common characteristics between the banana-growing countries. They also trace the movement...
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Coiling Geography "On the Pampas"

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to the rope coiling form of art used by the gaucho culture of South America. They read "On the Pampas" by Maria Cristina Brusca, view the illustrations of the coiling technique and create original pieces.
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Natural Resources and Transportation in the United States

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study thematic maps (included with the lesson) to determine possible relationships. They develop three hypotheses about the relationship. Students choose one of their hypotheses to explain. The explanation is to include reasons...
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Winter Tree Identification

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars utilize techniques of winter tree identification such as twig and bark characteristics. Students also identify specific uses for trees in school surrounding. They work cooperatively to produce a multimedia presentation...
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Using Literature to Introduce the Five Themes of Geography

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to a read aloud of "If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln". Using the text, they identify examples of the five themes of geography and write them down. Using a map, they plot the places mentioned in the book and sort facts...
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Geography and Artifacts of Mexico

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the structure of government in Mexico and discuss how it is different than the United States. Using artifacts, they must label and identify the city or state in which the artifact originated. They use the artifact clues...
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Trekking to Timbuktu: Trade in West Africa (Lesson 2)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the importance of trade in West Africa. Using a virtual time capsule, they travel back to ancient times and travel along with a caravan. They answer specific questions related to the journey and items they are...
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Banana Republics - United Fruit Co.

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils define multinational companies and describe their roles as key economic developers in developing countries, determine whether trade-off between surrendering control of a country's economy to foreign companies and economic...
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Asking For Directions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw a map of their surrounding area using appropriate landmarks and identifying characteristics. Students ask for and give directions to locations found on their maps to their partner. This lesson is intended for students...
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The Great Continental Drift Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students stud the concept of Pangaea by using Wegener's clues to construct a map of the continents joined together. They determine how fossil distribution can be used to enhance the study of continental drift. They locate the...
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Community and Colonization

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the nature of the European colonization in the Americas. They compare how it relates to the inception of their community. Students identify the major players in America's colonization and explore the motivations...
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World War II: Bombs and Peace

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the final events and end of World War II. They examine the community impact of such events as the dropping of the dropping of atomic bombs, and President Roosevelt's death. Students prepare a presentation.
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How Does Evolution Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students pretend they are a scientist like John Endler in this Web activity. They visit his pools, from hypotheses, and test them out. In the process, the explore about natural selection and sexual selection. They are able to explain the...
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International Food

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students creatively develop a project dealing with a country of their choice. They gain knowledge of other cultures through research. Students develop an essence of food customs and traditions of the country of their choice. They design...
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Natural Disasters

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders write a description of a natural disaster. They list as many natural disasters as they can think of. The class discusses any natural disasters individuals have witnessed first hand. They watch a brief clip of a film that...
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Map your Schoolyard

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice their mapping skills by creating an accurate map of their schoolyard using an aerial photo from the National Map web site. Students include legends, a scale, and a north arrow on their maps.

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