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Description: Students will view photographs to determine human and physical modifications and discover the conflict and cooperation of groups involved in making these modifications.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL, CC Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: Students will learn how human environment interaction has caused the Colorado River to become an endangered river.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: GFL, OAS Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to engage students in exploring how every day activities such as tourism can affect the environment in positive and negative ways. Students create digital movies and cartoons to debate environmental issues. They learn the process of debate and participate in a debate. Students also hypothesize about solutions to the environmental, economical and cultural effects of tourism.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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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
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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
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Description: Students will understand how different caverns are formed by comparing and contrasting the physical characteristics of limestone caverns and alabaster (gypsum) caverns.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to engage students in exploring the national problem of oil spills. Students will draw connections between oil use in their lives and how it connects to their lives.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Julie Guild
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Description: In this lesson, students will study unique physical elements of the eastern United States, analyze how this could have had an impact on state boundaries, and develop “memory cues” for geographic (landform) vocabulary terms.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
