Using Absolute Location to Improve Your Mental Mapping

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Description: Students will understand how latitude and longitude can assist them in finding specific places. They will be able to apply knowledge of location when organizing information about regions and the people who live in them. They will determine what natural resources are available for the people who live in the regions around the rivers, deserts, seas, mountains, and peninsulas being studied.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Susan Smith

Absolute Location: Knowing Exactly Where You Are!

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Description: Using longitude and latitude, students will find specific locations on maps and globes. Students will be able to use absolute location to find any specific place on any maps and globes (they include a grid system). When given a list of cities or geographically important locations in North and South America, students will be able to apply knowledge of absolute location to pinpoint their locations.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Susan Smith

Straits of Magellan

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Description: Students will locate the Straits 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             Produced By: Glenda Sullivan

The Impact of Monsoons and Cyclones in South Asia

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Description: Monsoons, together with cyclones, have a great impact on the agriculture and lives of people in this region, especially in India and Pakistan. The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the interactions and influences of monsoons and cyclones on the people of South Asia, and how physical systems, being both life-giving and destructive, can produce resilience in people of the regional areas.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Lynn Tilley

North Sea Petroleum Reserves: The Value to Developed Nations' Economies

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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to gain an understanding of the value of the North Sea petroleum reserves to the economies of Europe, both those nations that produce the energy, and the ones that consume the oil and natural gas found there. Through observing and analyzing maps, graphs, and charts of data and other information, students will integrate visual information, draw conclusions, and make predictions and inferences, to gain an understanding of the economic interconnectedness of these countries.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Lynn Tilley

Major Cities Spanning Europe and Asia

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Description: Students will learn the location of several major European and Asian cities as well as discovering important physical and cultural characteristics of these various cities.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL, CC       Produced By: Glenda Sullivan

Two Bits for Our National Parks

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Description: Students will gain knowledge of the National Park system and its diversity across our nation.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bob Harrelson

American Progress

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Description: Students will understand Manifest Destiny and the idea of expansionism during the 1800s. They will analyze John Gast’s painting, “American Progress” and use the information/knowledge gained to write an argumentative essay.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL                 Produced By: Teresa Potter

Unsolved Mysteries: What Happened to the Orangutan?

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Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to be able to use reading and investigation skills to make inferences about what has happened to the orangutan. By identifying the plight of the orangutan and the contemporary issues facing Indonesia, students will discover how human activities have modified the environment, resulting in deforestation in Indonesia.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Teresa Potter

Transportation in the News

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Description: Students see transportation all around them but do not know geographic and historic background about the development of types of transportation. Students will gain geographic and historic perspectives about transportation as they explore American ingenuity that overcame geographic and economic issues in history.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bill Amburn

The Push-Pull Factor Getting to the Bottom of It

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Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to identify the main groups of immigrants to the United States from 1820-1920, and the push-pull factors associated with these immigrant groups.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Teresa Potter

Flipping Through the Western Hemisphere

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Description: Students will gather information on a selected state, province, or country to better understand the relationship of the countries in the Western Hemisphere.

 Grade level(s): Middle                       Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Bob Harrelson

The Aral Sea: An Unnatural Disaster

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Description: Students will understand that water diverted for irrigation or other purposes can have a direct impact on the environment, including environments that cross international boundaries.

 Grade level(s): Middle                         Standards: OAS, GFL, CC       Produced By: Janet Hall

It's History Time!

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Description: Students will learn details about specific United States historical events and place them in the correct sequence on a timeline.

 Grade level(s): Middle, High School         Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson

Tracking Traveling Turtles

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Description: Students will discover how human interaction almost drove the sea turtles of the Gulf of Mexico into extinction as well as what is being done to reestablish the turtle population today.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bob Harrelson

Laboring for Economic Justice

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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to compare and contrast the organized labor movement in United States history with Oklahoma’s labor history.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Ann Kennedy

MVP Award

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Description: Students will create awards for the most memorable people and places in American history and justify the honor by writing fact-based arguments. 

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Heather Braucher

Cattle Drives and Westward Expansion

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Description: This lesson will give the students an understanding of the purpose and location of the cattle drives and how they influenced Westward Expansion.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson

From Sodom to the Promise Land: The Exodusters

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Description: Students will identify and describe migration of African Americans following the Civil War from the Southern States westward, particularly the Exoduster Movement, and its effect on the settlement of African American settlements in what is now the State of Oklahoma. 

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Shirley Nero

Manifest Destiny According to Fakebook

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Description: Manifest Destiny was an extremely powerful idea in the 19th century United States. The essence of Manifest Destiny was that North America was intended by God to be populated and governed by Anglo-Saxon Americans. This meant that the spread of United States democracy and industry was part of the Divine plan. Of course, there were other people on the North American continent who disagreed with this notion. In this lesson students will explore the idea of Manifest Destiny.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Jenea Midgett