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The first part of this lesson focuses on the pre-colonial ethnic history of Nigeria. The second part looks at how European colonization impacted the area’s development. The third part shifts the focus to modern times and the north-south conflicts of today.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Students will examine how a change in the lake can directly affect the lives of humans and other living creatures. Students will determine the changes in the environment of distant places around the explosion and organize these affects in a poster project.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to identify the four main, ancient cultural hearths and their relative locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: Norway's once vast oil reserves in the North Sea are dwindling, and the government is facing tough choices when planning for the country's economic future. The prospect that oil might one day run out, together with the growing threat from global climate change, means the need for alternative energy sources has never been greater. A key lesson from decades of burning exhaustible fossil fuels is the importance of renewable - or at least less damaging - resources. How will Norway adjust to this threat?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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This lesson helps students discover the multiple elements that come together to make genocide possible. The focus of the lesson is on the role different elements of society played in causing or allowing the genocide to happen.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: The United States has contributed over three billion dollars in private aid aimed at alleviating world hunger. The issue has been taken up by world organizations including the United Nations and at the G8 Conference. Concerns over food security, economic instability in Africa, education of women, growth of single crops for export (especially to China) have been addressed, and yet hunger is still a problem in Africa. Why?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to learn about India’s caste system and its effect on cultural unity.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description:The Sahara and Sahel have been the habitat for nomadic people for over 800 years. Only in the last century has their entire way of life been threatened. Most people envision nomads as men and women wandering over the desert on a camel. This lesson is designed to show students that these groups have an established political and social structure, pastoralist-based economy, and infuse art and religion into their everyday lives.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: 7th Grade World Geography CRT Review from the OKAGE World Geography Academies, Session III, 2011.
Grade level(s): Middle Produced By: OKAGE with permission of Shirley Starkey, Social Studies Education Coordinator
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Description: Students will locate the Strait of Magellan, discover its importance as a sailing route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans until the Panama Canal was completed in 1914, and will learn what its navigation purposes are today.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, C3 Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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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: This collection of lesson plans covers topics about China and teaching English in China.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: John J. Katana
