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Description: This lesson will allow students to learn the location of the states of Mexico by labeling them on a political map.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to introduce the students to the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws of the South and Oklahoma, and the effect the codes and laws had on the development of the civil rights of African Americans in these regions.
**This lesson was published on January 15, 2014, prior to the passing of HB 1775. Because of the nature of dealing with controversial subjects and issues in the classroom and the challenges they raise, including racial stereotypes in language, illustrations, audio, and video records, the teacher must establish clear ground rules about what will and will not be permitted in terms of arguments and rhetoric, and must be prepared to enforce those rules with appropriate consequences if students ignore these rules.**
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Shirley Nero
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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: This lesson will give the students an understanding of why major cities developed along the Fall Line of the Atlantic Coastal Region of the United States.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: The nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, had immediate as well as long-lasting affects on people throughout the western part of the former Soviet Union as well as throughout Europe. Students will study the reasons for using nuclear power as an energy source as well as the potential dangers.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Students will develop cartographic skills by designing the physical and political boundaries of South America. They will use symbols to create their own free hand design of the physical and political boundaries of South America while also locating and categorizing the different economic systems across South America. Students will then examine the importance of the founding of and the continued use today of the Strait of Magellan.
Grade level(s): Middle 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: The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the changes in manufacturing that have occurred in the United States in recent years, as well as analyze the impact of "outsourcing" to Asian countries of components and parts of products previously made in the United States. Students will also have the opportunity to consider possible economic reforms that could improve production, quality, and availability of goods worldwide.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will discover the physical boundary between Asia and Europe: the Ural Mountains. They locate the Urals and analyze the differences and similarities among the five regions in the mountain system. Students will determine the reasons for movement among humans in the regions as well.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students information on representative governments and authoritarian systems throughout the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to acquaint students with the one-child policy of China and assist them in understanding how this has had an impact on the population growth and culture of China.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
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Description: Students will recall or discover their ethnic origins and plot them on a world map.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will gain an understanding of the cultural, political and economic features of the United States and apply the knowledge to analyze problems and propose solutions created by human environment interaction.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will examine the similarities and differences between various types of economic systems in the world. They will compare the pros and cons of Sweden’s mixed market system and discover the types of products that are a part of this type of economic system.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Coal has played a very important role in China’s rapid development, providing jobs, opportunities, and better standards of living for growing numbers of China’s people. However, as with all change and progress, there are both positive and negative repercussions. The purpose of this activity is to help students understand and relate China’s coal mining and usage to the impact it has had on the environment, people, and economy of the country.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to show students why double cropping will increase crop production on a limited amount of land.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Susan Smith
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students become independent thinking, readers and writers.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will develop an understanding of the importance of water to the survival of people and places. They will examine the ways human actions can impact places environmentally as well as economically. They will determine the specific causes regarding the shrinking Aral Sea in Central Asia and discuss possible ways to reverse this problem.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: The purpose of this activity is to provide students information on how terraced farming in East Asia provides solutions to their food needs.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Susan Smith
