OKAGE Online Professional Development Session 6: Understanding Disasters from a Local, Regional, and Global Perspective

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Description: This lesson covers disaster preparedness and recovery and how these strategies differ across local, regional, and global scales. Impacts upon disaster response as they relate to existing socioeconomic inequities along with complicating factors due to COVID-19 will also be discussed. Additionally, the issue of climate change will be explored as it relates to disaster frequency and intensity.

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Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher, and Dr. Mark Shafer with the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program

OKAGE Online Professional Development Session 5: Oil, Religion, and the Global Landscape

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Description: The Middle East produces about one third of the world’s oil which makes the entire world reliant on that oil and natural gas. The goal of this lesson is to use map skills to gain an understanding of the effects of abundant oil supplies in the Middle East. Using maps, students will analyze data from a geographic perspective. They will increase their understanding of conflict and cooperation among specific groups over oil and religious differences, along with the impacts of COVID-19 upon global markets. They will also identify multinational peace-keeping efforts to stabilize relationships in the Middle East.

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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Teresa Potter

Tulsa Race Massacre Session 3: Understanding the Rise of Greenwood Using the Five Themes of Geography

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Description: Join the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education for a discussion on understanding the rise of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, OK using the Five Themes of Geography. The content presented in this session is for upper elementary and middle school educators. This material is aligned with the Oklahoma Academic Standards for the Social Studies and the National Geography Standards.

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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky

Tulsa Race Massacre Session 2: Processing the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Literacy

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Description: Join the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education and National Geographic Certified Educator, Taylor Woodard, for a session on helping students process the Tulsa Race Massacre through literacy. The content presented in this session is for upper elementary and middle school educators. This material is aligned with the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies, the Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts, and the National Geography Standards.

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Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Taylor Woodard

Tulsa Race Massacre Session 1: What was Black Wall Street and Where is it Now?

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Description: Join the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education and Professor Quraysh Ali Lansana for a session about the history of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, OK during the years leading up to the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. This material is aligned with the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies.

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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS
Produced By: Quraysh Ali Lansana, Autumn Brown, Najah-Amatullah Hylton, Crystal Patrick

Online PD Session 4: Teaching Geography Online

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Description: This session will cover strategies for teaching geography online, and will be led by OKAGE Teacher Consultant and National Geographic Certified Educator Clayton Canon. The content presented will be at the middle school level, but educators of all grade levels are welcome to use this resource.

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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Clayton Canon

Online PD Session 3: Asia's Cultures and the 2020 Health Crisis

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Description: This lesson is designed to assist students in using visual information to identify urban areas in East Asia and determine how COVID-19 spread rapidly through these areas.

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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Susan Smith

Gridiron Geography - 2020

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Description: Using the Big 12 Football schedule as a guide, your students will learn about the geographical and historical significance surrounding the participating teams' campuses, home cities or towns, home states, mascots, players, and more!

Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Dr. Steve Stadler, Brenda Chapman, Deji Duggar, Jeff Woolsey, Johnnie Keel, Ann Kennedy, Pam Merrill, Clayton Canon, Becca Palczynsky, and Taylor Woodard.

Online PD Session 2: Climate Change - 2020 Update

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Description: Students will understand the causes and effects of climate change. They will also be able to determine the difference between mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change. In this lesson, students will apply adaptation strategies to real-world climate change scenarios.

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Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: J. Scott Greene, Ph.D.; Angela Trent

Disasters Happen: Are you Ready? 2020 Update

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Description: Students will investigate natural disasters, discover the urgency to be prepared, and create an emergency kit which they will present to the class.

Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher

Online PD Session 1: Introducing Places, Landscapes, and Regions

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Description: When geographers look at a particular place or landscape, they look at its spatial organization. Geographers focus on the built environment or look of human places and ask what processes or activities are happening in those areas. All positive and negative human actions on any landscape or place create various unique spatial patterns. When thinking about the look of places, density, concentration and pattern represent how any space is organized. When examining large or small places, we encounter areas that have similar or common characteristics, which help create regions. Once a region is recognized, we can look at various similarities closely, then study, discuss and interact with various unique topics or issues within that area.

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Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Gary Gress, Ph.D.