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Description: This LiveBinder provides a crash course in teaching Geography. Topics include the Five Themes of Geography, using data and maps, population, GIS resources, and more!
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will analyze the major controversies surrounding the rationale and impact of foreign aid to developing regions in order to formulate informed opinions and effectively engage in deliberations regarding financial assistance to growing economies.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL, OAS
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will examine basic reasons why some nations and regions develop while other do not, including analysis of the factors used by geographers to measure human development and two opposing models toward development, historically and currently utilized by developing nations’ leadership toward reaching economic progress. Use of real-world families from selected developed and developing regions serve as the catalyst for student investigations.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL, OAS
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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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: Ginny Rohr, Jeff Woolsey, Pam Merril, Janet Hall, Jeffery Widener, LeaAnn Wyrick, Jacob Rosecrants, and Brenda Chapman.
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Description: The study of geography, history, and the social studies in general, provide ample opportunities for students to evaluate the positive and negative consequences of human modification the Earth’s surface through the use of limited and non-renewable resources. This lesson focuses on the ways imported technology rapidly transformed the arid environment of the Arabian Peninsula, only to be transformed again by human mismanagement of fossil aquifers just a few decades later.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: This lesson focuses on the causes and challenges of India’s rapid rural-to-urban migration.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Participants will enter the shadowy world of spy agents and covert missions while learning process and literacy skills, map skills, and key details of the Revolutionary War. They will read for understanding, analyze primary source documents and maps, and make inferences about the Revolutionary time period, while at the same time trying to outwit and out-spy their opponents.
Grade level(s): Elementary
Standards: GFL, C3
Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: In this lesson, students will use the Oklahoma Giant Traveling Map to identify and gain a better understanding of notable historic and present day Oklahomans who made significant contributions to the state.
Grade level(s): Elementary (Adaptable to 8th & 10th grade American History)
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: In this lesson, students will use the Oklahoma Giant Traveling Map to identify and locate important state and local landmarks, as well as gain a better understanding of their historical significance.
Grade level(s): Elementary (Adaptable to 8th & 10th grade American History)
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the abundance of information available to them in a desk atlas. By walking or “cruising” through the atlas, students will learn about the multitude of graphs, the many symbols, and how they are used. Students will examine legends, map scales, diagrams, charts, the compass rose, and thematic maps. Students will also learn the difference between political and physical maps.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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Description: Students will gain an understanding of the role of media as a source of public information regarding geographic events, development, and issues by examining and weighing the validity of various forms of media. The environmental challenge of climate change is used to illustrate the six basic purposes of media, utilizing an interactive online global tour. Students will have the opportunity to expand their research and technological skills through the production of online global tours, investigating additional topics of desertification, deforestation, pollution, overpopulation, and urban sprawl.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will investigate the status of food security and accessibility in both developed and developing nations through a study of the typical week’s dietary intakes of a global sampling of families, using classroom-ready Tourbuilder lessons, which combine Google mapping technology, digital maps, photographs, and video clips. Teacher-centered instruction will introduce students to the current practices of agriculture in developing nations, as well as provide background information regarding potential solutions to address food security. During the course of the lesson, students will be engaged in the analysis of maps, graphs, and cartograms to gain an understanding of the spatial relationships between food availability, trade, and population growth.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn the fundamental parts of a windmill, to use the scientific method to isolate and adjust variables when constructing a functional windmill that lifts weights, and to understand energy conversions/transfers and how a windmill converts moving air into usable mechanical energy. Students will understand that wind power is a choice we can make that reduces pollution and climate impacts.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Kylah McNabb; Teresa Potter
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to examine statistics and understand that as a society and as individuals, we can make choices to help reduce the climatic impact of electricity generation. Students will understand that generating power with the wind is a choice we can make that will reduce the severity of environmental issues.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Kylah McNabb; Teresa Potter
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Description: Students will analyze data including a variety of special purpose maps of Oklahoma to determine the reason for population growth and decline in specific areas. The Giant Traveling Map of Oklahoma is used to help students understand the changing population distribution across Oklahoma.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: The United States has conflicts with other countries. U.S. citizens have perceptions that are often negative toward these countries. How can we change these perceptions in our students? The answer is educating students about the culture and people of these countries, hence, the importance of geography classes. This lesson will allow the students to explore the culture of a country they are studying and work to change perceptions.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Brenda Chapman
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Description: Students will be able to distinguish between what is real news and fake news.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
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Description: Students will develop an understanding of how tornados form. Identify and locate the cities where the top 10 worst tornados in Oklahoma occurred on the Giant Map of Oklahoma. They will specifically gather and analyze data from the Moore, Oklahoma 2013 tornado site using geospatial technology.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: GFL, C3
Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: The word today struggles with the credibility of stories and sources. There are a variety of reasons for this phenomenon – satire, entertainment, political partisanship, and social media. Students will experience the process of determining credibility of sources. (Media Literacy)
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Brenda Chapman
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Description: In this lesson, students will explore how water behaves on various substrates (ground surfaces), what occurs during a flood, and the causes of flash floods. This lesson concludes with students designing and testing various floodplain models intended to mitigate the effects of flash floods.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Danny Mattox
