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National Geographic: Reading a Resource Map
Students will study maps to recognize where natural resources are found through exercises provided.
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National Geographic: Analyze a Community Map
Understand the map of a community and recognize the strategies developers have in placing public services in specific locations throughout the town.
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National Geographic: Earth's Water Cycle
In this lesson, students draw and write about the water cycle, then discuss the important role the oceans play. Includes links to online resources.
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National Geographic: Time Period Clues
In this lesson, students examine photographs from different time periods in American history and try to put them in order on a timeline. Includes a worksheet and a vocabulary list with explanations.
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National Geographic: Our Hydrosphere
After learning about the Earth's hydrosphere and its major components, students look at the interconnections within the hydrosphere and with humans. Includes a vocabulary list with definitions.
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National Geographic: Climate
An encyclopedia entry defining and giving examples of climates. Learn how a climate is related to its weather. Entry contains both pictures and vocabulary.
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National Geographic: Planet Food: Explore the World Through Food
Students discover their own global food network by playing "Planet Food"-a two-part interactive game that introduces the concepts of interdependence and globalization through the geography of food.
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National Geographic: Celebrate Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek)was created in 1987 as a time for families, students, teachers, and the general public to promote and celebrate the study of geography.
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National Geographic: On the Trail of Captain John Smith
Animated media with accompanying text guides students through the story of Captain John Smith and his Jamestown adventures.
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National Geographic: Global Closet Calculator
Play this two-part interactive game to understand the interdependence and globalization of manufactured goods. By using the clothes in the closet, map out where the clothing is manufactured. The second part of the game investigates...
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National Geographic: What the World Eats
National Geographic presents a visual application to illustrate what types of daily diet caloric intake is from 1961-2011. Views of the whole world and breakdowns of individual nations are shown.
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National Geographic: Extreme Weather on Our Planet
This lesson from National Geographic for grades 2-5 has a great photo gallery and video of extreme weather, and a chart for plotting weather investigation. Learning objectives, teaching methods, and connections to National Science...
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National Geographic: Build a Magnetometer
Hands-on project where the learner constructs a magnetometer to monitor and measure changes in earth's magnetic field. These changes can then be used to track solar storms.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Peace Corps
In this Geostory, join the Peace Corps and learn about the "Toughest Job You'll Ever Love."
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National Geographic: Terminal Velocity
Researchers compare the terminal velocity of humans to peregrine falcons in hopes to increase top speeds in human extreme skydiving.
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National Geographic: Why Communities Move
Why do communities move? In this activity from National Geographic, students learn what causes groups of people to to move from or be attracted to areas. Students learn how these concepts play into their own local communities, and forces...
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National Geographic: Geostories: Geography on the Job
Each story point in this Geostory includes images, a short bio, and an interactive mapping tool that allows students to see the regions where geography work takes place.
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National Geographic: Underground Railroad: The Journey
Interactive resource in which students choose their fate by making their own decisions as they travel the Underground Railroad.
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National Geographic: Blog: "Fairy Circles" Explained
This article describes how termites create circular patterns of bare soil known as "fairy circles" in the grasslands of southern Africa.
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National Geographic: 44 Bce: Julius Caesar Assassinated
The Ides of March is one of the most memorable dates in history. Read a short synopsis of why Caesar was assassinated. Did the senators achieve their goal?
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National Geographic: 45 Bce: Julius Caesar Takes a Leap
Why do we have an extra day at the end of February every four years? We have Julius Caesar to thank! Read this short explanation about how the calendar kept falling out of step with the seasons and Caesar's solution to the problem.
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National Geographic: 49 Bce: Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
"Crossing the Rubicon" is a modern-day idiom meaning to commit to a particular plan or course of action that cannot be reversed. The phrase refers to how Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river and became embroiled in civil war in 49...
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National Geographic: Crittercam Chronicles: Antarctica
Play a game where you explore three scenes in Antarctica and find different types of animals: south polar skua, crabeater seal, emperor penguin, ice fish, leopard seal, killer whale, krill, adelie penguin, and weddell seal. After you...
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National Geographic: Climate Change Quiz
Take the following five question multiple choice quiz on climate change.