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Digging Detectives
Students demonstrate basic procedures for archeological excavations. They explore an archeological site, students using various archeological methods and techniques to determine some of the aspects of past life and culture.
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Antonyms and Synonyms
In this antonym and synonym learning exercise, students rearrange 8 sets of "jumbled" words to form correct sentences containing antonyms and synonyms.
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Biome Detective Sheet
In this biomes worksheet, learners research the plant and animal life found in different habitats. This worksheet has 38 short answer questions.
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Antonym Crossword
In these antonyms worksheets, students complete two crossword puzzles for the antonyms. Students use the clues and the words to help them complete the puzzles.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum: North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World
Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Learning Directions on a Map (Lesson Plan)
This site provides a lesson plan in which young scholars will learn to use north, south, east, and west to identify relative locations and provide directions.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of the Middle East
Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Expanding Map Vocabulary
First graders will be able to name the vocabulary words in Navajo, Ute, and Spanish for the cardinal directions.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Geography Unit: Maps
This geography unit is designed to follow the 1st Grade geography skills required in Virginia. Students are expected to use cardinal directions, read map keys and understand map symbols, as well as identify our city and capital.
BBC
Bbc: Dinosaur Survival Game
If you were a dinosaur, would you have what it takes to survive, reproduce and evolve? Knowing directions (north, south, east, west) and sizing up other organisms in your environment will be crucial to your survival.
Other
Grammar Monster: Capital Letters With North, East, South, and West
Information and examples showing when and when not to capitalize directions.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Weather Vane
A weather vane can be seen on top of a house roof. It shows the letters N, S, E, W which represent north, south, east and west. It is used for wind direction.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Catawba River
Catawba River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains of McDowell County, approximately 20 miles east of Asheville, flowing east-northeast above Hickory until turning southward into the massive Lake Norman Reservoir. It then continues south,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South China, 1971
"South China comprises the drainage basins of the middle and lower Yangtze River, the basin of the His Chiang (West River) in Kwangtung and Kwangsi; and the mountainous coastal provinces of Fukien and Chekiang. The division between the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Physical Map of South America, 1898
A map from 1898 of South America showing the general physical features including mountain systems, prominent peaks and volcanoes, river and lake systems, plateaus, and coastal features. The map includes an insert of the Isthmus of...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Relief Map of South America, 1890
A relief map from 1890 showing terrain features of South America. "South America is the fourth continent in size, and strikingly resembles North America in the arrangement of its relief-forms. It has, like the latter, a predominant...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South America, 1885
An orographic map of South America from 1885 showing the primary mountain systems and general elevations. The map is color-coded to show highlands in buff tint, lowlands in green, and the major mountain chains with heavy black lines. The...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Complete List of All the Countries in Asia
Lists the 49 countries in Asia and their capitals, organized by geographical region.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to China
Much of China, a country slightly larger than the continental United States, is hilly or mountainous. To its east lies the Pacific Ocean; to its south thick jungles. Mountains in the southwest connect in the west with the Himalayas,...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Map of Southern u.s. (1806)
A detailed 1806 map of the southern U.S. States and Territories and Spanish Florida showing borders, rivers, mountains and overland trails.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Middle Colonies, 1620 1702
A map of the New Jersey Colony between the establishment of the Dutch settlement at Bergen (1620) and the unification of East and West Jersey in 1702. The map shows the 'North River’ (Hudson River) and 'South River’ (Delaware River), the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Nebraska, 1903
A map from 1903 of Nebraska showing county borders, cities and towns, rivers, and railroads. This map also shows the rock types in the state. "Nebraska, a central State of the American Union, lies between 40 degrees and 43 degrees N....
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Unesco: Turkmenistan: Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. They...