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Description: Students will discover the important role water has played in American History. They will discover how water played an essential role in determining the shape of our state and country by analyzing specific events throughout U.S. History.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Economic decisions for four centuries have been based on how quickly a product can get to market. Transportation evolved to keep up with market demands. Trails became national roads, river and sea-going transportation increased in size to take on larger and more specialized loads, and rivers themselves underwent transformation into canal systems connecting larger bodies of water with inland ports.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to examine the expansion of railroads in the U.S. (especially in Oklahoma), their economic impact, and how they shaped local landscapes.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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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: Annie Elsberry, Janet Hall, Joseph Rohr, Ginny Rohr, Rob Miles, William E. Amburn, Denise Aguilar, and Jeffery M. Widener.
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Description: Students will understand how human settlement and deforestation drove the Puerto Rican Parrot to the brink of extinction.
Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle, High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Students will discover the positive and negative effects of abundant oil reserves in the Middle East by making assumptions and drawing conclusions. Students will then choose a positive or negative effect and further examine their topic with research. They will prepare a brief persuasive essay to present at a class discussion or debate. These activities will also address PALS (Process and Literacy Skills).
Grade level(s): High School Standards: GFL, OAS Produced By: Teresa Begley
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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: Glenda Sullivan, Joseph Rohr, Annie Elsberry, William E. Amburn, Marilyn Pineda, Janet Hall, Denise Aguilar, Ginny Rohr, Darren Purcell, Jayne Marley, and Rita Barnett.
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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.
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Description: The Geography Basics Institute lesson plans cover a variety of topics. This document contains the following lesson plans:
Tear the Continents - Page 1
Cacao or Cocoa Both Spell Chocolate - Page 4
Using Photographs to Teach Geography - Page 13
As Far As the Eye Can See: Exercises in Remote Sensing - Page 41
Mental Mapping - Page 56
Geography of Normandy - Page 61
Country on a Powerpoint - Page 68
Country in a Box - Page 74
Latitude and Longitude Shape Africa - Page 80
South America, Map It - Page 88
Jamestown Virginia - Page 95
Tsunami: Catching the Ultimate Wave - Page 104
Pressure and Wind - Page 113
Windmills All Around the World - Page 140
What is Earth Science? What is Geography? - Page 163
Look! You’re Wearing Geography - Page 173
Wichita Field Experience - Page 186
Land and Water Contrasts - Page 194
Albedo - Page 206
From Ptolemy’s World to Apollo 17 - Page 212
Contour Lines and Elevation - Page 218
Windows - Page 231
Push-Pull Factors - Page 235
Interpreting North America at Night - Page 259
Design an Island - Page 264
Stand Up and Be Counted - Page 269
Choropleth Mapping: The Changing Oklahoma Population - Page 289
The Geographical Journey of Lewis and Clark - Page 293
Great Circles, Small Circles, and Distance - Page 302
Place and Poetry - Page 310
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Glenda Sullivan and Marco Micozzi.
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Description: The World Geography Academy lesson plans cover a variety of topics. This document contains the following lesson plans:
Country in a Box - Page 1
A Summer Day - Page 7
Climate Graphs and Deductive Reasoning - Page 14
Tectonic Plates: The Shaping of the Land, Japan - Page 26
Testing Strategies and Teaching Strategies - Page 33
Population by the Numbers - Page 37
On My Next Vacation I’m Going to… - Page 44
The Silk Road - Page 47
South America, Map It - Page 53
Windmills All Around the World - Page 62
Country on Powerpoint - Page 70
Worth Your Weight in Gold - Page 81
What On Earth, or Water, Is That? - Page 88
Regional Scavenger Hunt - Page 93
Picasso Geography - Page 98
Freehand Map of Africa - Page 101
Climate Graphs and Deductive Reasoning - Page 105
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Patricia M. Anduss, Jacci Lackey, Bill Amburn, Bob Ehrle, Glenda Sullivan, Jayne Marley, and Catherine Stoner.
