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Fremont Unified School District

4th Grade California Relief Map Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Bring life to your next California geography lesson with this great project! Learners design a three-dimensional wall relief map of California, painting and decorating regions using a variety of materials and labeling major geographical...
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It's About Time

The Changing Geography of Your Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lead your class in exploring their local communities as well as the general environment. As they determine continental distributions by investigating minerals, rocks, and fossils located in their local region, pupils construct...
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NOAA

Climate Is Our Friend…Isn’t It?: Make an Extinction Polyhedron

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Climate affects populations in different ways. Scholars research extinct organisms and mass extinctions in part three of the 10-installment Discover Your Changing World series. They create graphic organizers, then fill in the...
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Teach Engineering

Earthquakes Living Lab: Designing for Disaster

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Build and design to rock and roll. Pairs research building design in earthquake areas and use computer simulations to see the effects of earthquakes on buildings,. They then sketch and explain a building design that would withstand...
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NASA

Climate Change Inquiry Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With global temperatures on the rise faster than ever recorded, the effects of a heating planet could be devastating. Allow learners to discover just what the world is in store for if the warming continues through a series of videos, a...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lactase Persistence: Evidence for Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What's the link between lactase persistence and dairy farming? Biology scholars analyze data to find evidence of the connection, then relate this to human adaptation. Working individually and in small groups, learners view short video...
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Prince William Network

The Incredible Journey

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Divide your school gym into breeding grounds and non-breeding grounds so that your zoologists can play a game simulating the seasonal migration of shorebirds. Players pick one of the included game cards and follow its directions, which...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: The Right Balance: Mixing Energy Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students look at profiles of energy production for different regions of the United States. They examine the conversion efficiency and the carbon dioxide emissions of each type of energy, and then the environmental impact...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Geographic Groceries

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This site provides activities and lesson plans for all age levels on mapping.
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Other

Joseph Rowntree Fdn:geographical Variations in Unemployment & Non Employment

For Students 9th - 10th
This PDF resource explains the difference between unemployment and inactivity in Great Britain and the geographical and regional patterns involved in each. The focus is on trends in the 1980s and 1990s. (Published April 30, 1998)
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Other

France, All You Need to Know

For Students 9th - 10th
It's not easy to describe an entire country and teach the language on one website, but this publisher has managed pretty well. They cover everything such as general information about France, French language lessons, regional and...
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Other

Swiss World

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Swiss government contains extensive geographical, cultural, historical, economic, social and political information about this mountainous, multilingual country. It contains extensive links to authoritative outside...
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Other

Valparaiso University: Carl Ritter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Valparaiso University provides information on Carl Ritter and Alexander von Humboldt, two famous geographers.