MAXimize Student Learning

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Description: Students will be introduced to three key phases (preview/motivation, acquisition of knowledge, and extension of learning) necessary for in-depth comprehension of any type of textual information from both primary and/or secondary sources. By utilizing a hands-on case study of the Quechua rural villages of Andean Bolivia, students will experience these three phases, practicing effective research-based strategies and skills. Simultaneously, students will be given the opportunity to examine the interactions of humans who have positively modified their environments in order to satisfy their nutritional needs through somewhat unconventional means.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Pam Merrill

Water Fight: Watersheds and Water Rights

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Description: Students will examine and explore the current water rights issues while they learn the science and geography of our water systems, including rivers, watersheds and aquifers. They will investigate the negative and positive impact of human interactions with our water supply.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Tiffany Neill

Comparing Developed and Developing Countries

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Description: Students will discuss the differences in developed and developing countries, use resources to make correlations between population and natural resources, and use maps and globes to locate important locations of geographical significance.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: PASS, GFL, CC             Produced By: Susan Smith

World Biomes

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Description: Students will be able to recognize nine different biomes depicted in photographs and learn the locations of these biomes throughout the world.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson

Maxing Out Geography Strategies

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Description: Students will be able to summarize, using key concepts, text from different sources related to geography. Students should be able to discuss several world regions intelligently, and tell how people make their living there based on the available resources. Students should be able to discuss geographical topics from different perspectives.

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

Gridiron Geography - 2011

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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: Janet Hall, Lyndal Caddell, Glenda Sullivan, Brad Bays, Patricia Anduss, Ann Kennedy, Bill Amburn, Denise Rhodes, and Eugene Earsom.

Trade Game: Analyzing Global Oil Trade

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Description: Using a simulation game, students will explore trade strategies for a critical non-renewable resource, oil. Students will examine the differences between non-renewable and renewable resources. Students will examine the role Gross National Product plays in oil trade. Finally, students will recognize how crucial it is for countries to seek alternatives to be in place when non-renewable resource are depleted.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Tiffany Neill

Message in a Bottle: Latitude and Longitude

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Description: Students will become more proficient in finding absolute locations by playing a board game which employs latitude and longitude coordinates to locate survivors of a shipwreck.

 Grade level(s): Middle                 Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Glenda Sullivan

New England Covered Bridges

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Description: Students will discover the reason covered bridges were built in New England while determining how much average yearly snowfall the New England states receive.

 Grade level(s): Middle                 Standards: PASS, GFL             Produced By: Glenda Sullivan