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Description: Students will conduct a community survey to learn what adults know about the United States's trade partners and what products and resources are traded. They will analyze trade data on imports and exports to draw conclusions about trade patterns.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: In this lesson students will interpret portions of Lewis and Clark’s journal to gain a better understanding of the physical processes that shape the northwest United States.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will examine the reasons for the creation of missions by the Spanish during the early exploration of the Americas as well as analyze the effects, good and bad, of the Spanish culture upon the Native Americans.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aquilar
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Description: Students will discover the daily trials of life for all people who lived in the Spanish missions in California in the 1800s by analyzing the diary entries and accounts from a family living in Monterey, California, in 1838. The students will compare and contrast the range of feelings among the different groups by analyzing the diary entries as well as determine the cultural influences, good and bad, that the Spanish had on the Native Americans of the time.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aquilar
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Description: Students will define and distinguish the differences among these terms: migration, explorer, nomad, and descendent. They will examine the reasons for human advancement into the Americas, map the routes (including the major obstacles) taken by the "First" Americans, discover the effects their migration had on the development of the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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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: The purpose of this lesson is to help students with their mental mapping of states and neighboring states and also to help them learn about the geography of each.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Helen Chaney-Hackney
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Description: The key topics the students will acquire at the end of this lesson are the path of the Mississippi River from its headwaters to the mouth, and the major tributaries that feed into the Mississippi River.
The facts that the students will acquire by the end of this lesson are the names of the states that border the Mississippi River and the exact location of all of the Mississippi River’s tributaries.
At the end of this lesson the students should be able to trace on a map the path of the Mississippi River, the path of all of its tributaries and label all the states that border the Mississippi River.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Helen Chaney-Hackney
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Description: Students will discover the reason covered bridges were built in New England while determining how much average yearly snowfall the New England states receive.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: In this lesson, students will study unique physical elements of the eastern United States, analyze how this could have had an impact on state boundaries, and develop “memory cues” for geographic (landform) vocabulary terms.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: In this lesson, students place themselves back in time and “predict” how removal to Indian Territory would impact the cultures of specific tribes from different geographical locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
