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Alaska Vacation and Travel Information: Explore Alaska's Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
This portal site provides information, maps, photographs and tourist information for each of Alaska's primary geographic regions, such as the Inside Passage where Glacier Bay is located.
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Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Ohio's Five Physiographic Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives characteristics and history of Ohio's different regions. Map included. Very detailed descriptions of rivers and nature perserves in the State.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: An Investigation of Regional Housing Costs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson has students explore differences in regional housing costs, determine the percentage of gross income spent on housing, assess the impact of housing costs on a relocation decision and recognize wages and housing costs are prices.
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California's Native People, Desert Interior

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has information about the settlement patterns of the Native People of California based on the location and availability of resources.
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Keene College

Geo Granite: Don't Water. . . Shed a Tear

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A captivating hands-on lesson where students create a watershed and its tributaries, then learn about the watershed's importance in geographic regions.
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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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NOAA

Noaa: The Ocean's Role in Weather and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources - interactive activities and teacher tutorials - on the impact the ocean has on weather and climate.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Language and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
AP Human Geography course unit on Language and Religion compares world language, religion and looks at conflict within. Comprehensive resources, multi-media sources and interactive material.
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National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: Platte River

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this resource to briefly explore the ecosystem, discover the wildlife, and understand the threats to Nebraska's Platte River.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...
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Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas Parks and Wildlife: Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The region of Caprock Canyons, southeast of Amarillo, Texas, has been inhabited since the sixteenth century. This resource is chock full of history, geology and ecology of the state park. For activities, webcasts, and more information on...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Rock Layers and Fossils to Infer Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an inquiry-based field investigation of the sedimentary geology of Lilydale Regional Park's brickyards area, a bluff and slope location near St. Paul Minnesota's Harriet Island and Cherokee Heights Park. Young scholars...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Metamorphic Rocks

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers metamorphic rocks, which form from previous rocks exposed to heat and/or pressure.
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Unfiltered News

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore tourism around the world with up to the minute reporting from international resources. An opportunity to gain insight into different perspectives.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: The Byzantine Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the Byzantine Empire.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Rebellion: Peasant Revolts

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the European Middle Ages' peasant revolts.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Medieval Muslim Societies

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of Medieval Muslim Societies.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Spread of Knowledge: Financial Institutions

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of financial institutions in the ancient world.
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Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Financial Institutions

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of medieval financial institutions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on State Building: Maya, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
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Khan Academy: Focus on Continuity and Change: The Spread of Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge about the spread of Islam.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: African American Population Shifts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After completing this mini-unit, students will understand some of the economic, educational, and lifestyle reasons why African Americans have moved from one place in the United States to another.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Silicon Valley: Success, Failure, and a Bit of Luck

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the historic growth of the famous high tech California region known as the Silicon Valley! Read as circumstances placed creative people, and business in the right place at the right time allowing them to come together to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Water Vapor Circulation on Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation from the National Center for Atmospheric Research portrays annual patterns in water vapor and precipitation across the globe, illustrating general circulation patterns as well as seasonal and regional variation. [4:52]