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National Geographic: My Wonderful World: World Wall Maps (Pdf)

For Students 9th - 10th
Make your own full color or black and white mosaic wall map on your own printer. World maps, continents, Asian regions, and oceans are available for downloading, printing, and assembling.
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National Geographic: What the World Eats

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive website offers pie charts showing what the world eats and what 22 different countries eat. It also allows you to choose by year as well. These include food groups, calories, and grams overall and per category.
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National Geographic: Human Impacts on the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. These...
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National Geographic: American Genius: Perseverance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then write...
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National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
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National Geographic: Conflict on the Danube

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson in which young scholars use maps and text to explore physical and cultural boundaries and the disputes over control of them. Includes two activities with comprehensive and adaptable materials.
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National Geographic: More Human Geography and Borders

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson explores the ways in which human and cultural factors such as language and religion affect borders. Whole class and small group adaptable and interactive activities.
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National Geographic: To Build an Island

For Students 3rd - 5th
"This lesson gives students a basic overview of the geography of islands. They learn where islands are located throughout the world and will study two very different island groups (the Philippines and the British Isles) to illustrate the...
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National Geographic: My Wonderful World: Geography Is 10 Cool Things

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why is geography important? You will find 10 reasons that answer this question on this concise but informative site.
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National Geographic: Educator Resources: Extreme Weather on Other Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find lesson plans, worksheets, photo galleries, and related links for teaching about the weather systems of planets in our solar system.
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National Geographic: Geostories: A Rocky Mountain Bio Blitz

For Students 5th - 9th
National Geographic's 2012 BioBlitz took place in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. This GeoStory captures the spirit and wildlife discoveries of the 2012 BioBlitz.
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National Geographic: Geostories: American Wetlands

For Students 5th - 9th
Visit this GeoStory to discover the wetland ecosystems across the United States.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Citizen Scientists Across the u.s.

For Students 5th - 9th
Meet some people who volunteer in citizen science efforts across the country.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Emerging Explorers

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out how modern-day explorers change the way we change our world in this interactive Geostory activity.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Earth's Extremes

For Students 5th - 9th
Follow this GeoStory to learn about Earth's extremes, from highest and lowest, to hottest and coldest.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Hominin History

For Students 5th - 9th
Launch the GeoStory to find out about hominins. There are many, many extinct hominins, a fraction of which are represented in this activity.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Ocean Exploration

For Students 5th - 9th
This Geostory illustrates pivotal events in undersea understanding.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Port Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this GeoStory in classroom instruction to provide information about how port cities help exchange goods and services.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Participatory Mapping in the Caribbean

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Caribbean's Grenadine chain of islands through the work of a cartographer and mapping expert.
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National Geographic: The Walrus and the Carpenter

For Students 5th - 9th
This GeoStory walks learners through the poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" with an image and map accompanying each stanza, and in many cases individual lines. The images are either literal representations or metaphors of a line in the...
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National Geographic: Geostories: The Ab Cs of Mp As

For Students 5th - 9th
Each slide in this GeoStory includes information about an aspect of a marine protected aea, as well as a link to related content from National Geographic Education.
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National Geographic: Geostories: The Geography of Jazz

For Students 5th - 9th
Explore this Geostory as it traces the roots of jazz from its humble beginnings in the southern United States to becoming one of the most widely recognized musical styles in the world.
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National Geographic: Geostory: The 80s: The Decade That Made Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive Geostory module to relive the political, environmental, and pop cultural moments that made the 1980s an important time in U.S. history.
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National Geographic: Continental Divide

For Students 9th - 10th
A photographic encyclopedia entry defining and showing examples of a continental divide, the Great Divide and the Andes Mountains being the most prominent.