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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Carve That Mountain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students further investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built...
Graphic
Library of Congress

Loc: Map Collections 1500 2002

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection provides maps dating back to 1500 up to the present. The collection includes: cities, towns, discovery and exploration, conservation and environment, military battles, cultural landscapes, transportation, communication,...
Article
US Department of Agriculture

China's Food and Agriculture: Issues for the 21st Cent.

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of reports published but the United States Department of Agriculture in April of 2002 (in PDF format) from the USDA that covers "China's food consumption, marketing, international trade, agricultural policy, transportation...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricane Matthew Causes Weathering and Erosion

For Students 3rd - 5th
View videos and photos from the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and see how the earth's landforms changed as a result of the heavy winds and rain. Weathering and erosion made a new landform and dramatically changed the coastline....
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
Handout
Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: World Factbook: Armenia

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an encyclopedia-style reference resource about Armenia. It includes all essential statistical facts about the country (e.g., population level, land mass) and brief notes about the country's economy, government, natural...
Handout
Other

Overland Trail: Concord Coach

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out all the links here to gain fascinating insight into what it would have been like to travel west by stagecoach in the late 19th century.
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Other

Smog City

For Students 3rd - 8th
Smog City, an interactive air pollution simulator, shows students how human choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Egyptian History: Geography and the Nile River

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Ancient Egyptian Geography and the Nile River. The Nile provided fertile land, transportation, and building materials for Egypt.
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Other

Allstar Network: Flight

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive and informative site looks at the history and principles of flight.
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Other

North Dakota State University: Managing the Risks

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the risks of using anhydrous ammonia as an agricultural fertilizer. Provides plenty of safety and equipment information, as well as exposure, transport, and storage guidelines.
Unit Plan
Other

Virtual Museum of Labrador: History

For Students 9th - 10th
Become acquainted with the "rich and diverse history" of the people of Labrador. Over the years there has been a variety of cultures that have inhabited the land including the Inuit, Metis, Europeans, and more. Information is also given...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Choices Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use this board game to introduce the concepts of energy use in our lives and the very real impact that personal choices can have on our energy consumption, energy bills and fuel supply. The game begins as students select cards that...
eBook
NASA

Nasa: Robin Whirlybird on Her Rotorcraft Adventures

For Students 1st - 5th
Read (or listen to) the illustrated story of Robin, who goes to work with her mother who works at a rotorcraft research center. Includes many interactive supplemental activities.
Unit Plan
Idaho State University

Idaho State University: Landslides, Slope Failure, Other Mass Wasting Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
Slope failure is the downslope movement of rock debris and soil in response to gravitational stresses. Three major types of mass wasting are classified by the type of downslope movement. The types of movement, falls, slides, and flows...
Handout
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Hazardous Business: The Railroads Come to Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
What made transportation in early Texas so difficult? What were the road conditions like? This article talks about land and water transportation in Texas in the years leading up to and after the Civil War. Also, check out photos and...
Website
Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Survival of a People: Using Our Natural Resources 1875 19

For Students 9th - 10th
The struggle of communities to inhabit small islands off the coast of Nova Scotia is profiled. Weather and poor land challenged the people but as transportation and communication expanded, the isolation and life style of the islanders...
Lesson Plan
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Stagecoaching in Texas [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they look at stagecoaches and how this mode of transportation compared to other...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Westward Expansion, 1790 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map explores the territorial and population changes in the United States between 1790 and 1850. It also covers the beginning of the transportation revolution and the Native American land cessions and forced removals.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Iraqw

For Students 9th - 10th
The Iraqw are an agrico-pastoral people who live in north-central Tanzania. With the expansion of their territory, the Iraqw have come to interact and coexist with other ethnic groups. Maize is the staple crop of the Iraqw; it is...
Handout
Indiana University

Indiana Univ. Bloomington: Geo Notes: Standing Rocks: Remnants of Erosion [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what standing rocks are, how they are formed by erosion, and gives the names of some well-known ones in Indiana.
Handout
Latimer Clarke Corporation

Atlapedia Online: Iraq

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Has information about Iraqi history, people, geography, climate, economy, and more. Click on the map image to get more details and an enlarged view. The information covers up to 1993.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Landforms in a Tub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, students create models in a tub or sandbox that simulate erosion caused by weathering.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

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