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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
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Description: The purpose of this activity is to help students understand why China built the Three Gorges Dam, the controversies that arose, and the impact the construction of the dam had on the environment and people. This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand how progress and change can have both positive and negative consequences.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, CC Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: Students will discover the reasons for deforestation. They will compare and contrast the effects of this process by looking at the good and the bad. They will locate areas in the world affected by deforestation and examine more specifically the affect this process is having on Indonesia and what the population is doing to remedy the situation.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Lawmakers have to make decisions about the use of resources that affect their citizens today and in the future. Deciding how to use the nation’s resources is not an easy process when two values are at odds: preserving natural resources and delicate ecosystems or protecting the economy. This was the dilemma for lawmakers when environmentalists fought to preserve Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge while opposed by oil companies who wanted to drill there for oil.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: Students will understand how El Niño and La Niña are formed and how climate patterns can determine if an El Niño or La Niña event is likely to occur.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
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Description: Students will discover the difference between climate and weather. Students will gain perspectives on varying climates in the Western Hemisphere and their connections to physical location, land use, and population.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Description: To provide support structures for students to analyze primary and secondary sources.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Description: Students will located and label the locations of the NFL teams on a map of the United States. Students will examine the geographical and historical significance of the mascot and stadium names for each professional team. Students will analyze the climates of the locations of the teams and determine why teams may have been placed in those locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Students will gain a better understanding of drainage basins, water scarcity, ecosystem balance, and consequences produced by population growth. Students will examine river basins and human impact on the environment in order to construct solutions.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: This lesson will give the students an understanding of the purpose and location of the cattle drives.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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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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Description: Students will identify and locate the countries of Mexico and Central America by examining puzzle pieces of these countries and marking them on a map. Students will analyze and categorize the information on the map regarding Mexico and Central America. Students will compare and contrast the learned information and determine if any of the countries studied are “linked” and prove how they are connected using the discovered information from the map.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
