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
The Nitty Gritty City: Becoming an Urban Geo-Detective
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Description: This is a collection of lesson plans about geo-skills from the OKAGE 2012 Summer Institute.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: OKAGE
Take Your Peck
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Description: Physical characteristics associated with ethnic background and cultures develop over time through a process known as natural selection. In this lesson students will explore this process through an activity that simulates the natural selection process in birds. Students will later analyze the physical characteristics of people from various countries by exploring photos from the “Photo of the Day” project from National Geographic.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
House Hunters: Top 5
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Description: Students will explore five of the Forbes.com “Top 10” cities to live in 2010 by analyzing non-fiction text about each city. Students will participate in a dual-phase Jigsaw activity to read and analyze the text. Students will then make claims about which city is the best city in which to live. Students will back this claim up with evidence they gain from the texts.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Quebec: What a Place!
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Description: Students will learn the geographic characteristics of place and develop a mental map of where this place is located while learning the characteristics of Quebec, Canada.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL, CC Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
The More the Merrier? Global Population Growth and the Future of Earth
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Description: Students will look at global population growth and make predictions about how society and population issues will impact one another in the future.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
Spanish Conquistadors: Methods To Their Madness & Why We Should Know About Them
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Description: Students will decipher what a Spanish "Conquistador" was, identify and distinguish among important Spanish conquistadors while locating their exploration routes on a world map and examine the effect each had with his migration to the new world culturally, socially, and economically.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
Strait of Magellan
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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
Natural Resource Distribution Web
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is two-fold: to familiarize students with the characteristics of a developed country and those of a developing country; and to acquaint students with the differences in distribution of natural resources in developed and developing countries.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
Comparing Developed and Developing Countries
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Description: Students will discuss the differences in developed and developing countries, use resources to make correlations between population and natural resources, and use maps and globes to locate important locations of geographical significance.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL, CC Produced By: Susan Smith
World Biomes
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Description: Students will be able to recognize nine different biomes depicted in photographs and learn the locations of these biomes throughout the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
Maxing Out Geography Strategies
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Description: Students will be able to summarize, using key concepts, text from different sources related to geography. Students should be able to discuss several world regions intelligently, and tell how people make their living there based on the available resources. Students should be able to discuss geographical topics from different perspectives.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
Trade Game: Analyzing Global Oil Trade
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Description: Using a simulation game, students will explore trade strategies for a critical non-renewable resource, oil. Students will examine the differences between non-renewable and renewable resources. Students will examine the role Gross National Product plays in oil trade. Finally, students will recognize how crucial it is for countries to seek alternatives to be in place when non-renewable resource are depleted.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Playing with the Global Grid
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Description: This lesson gives a visual way to explain the global grid, with an emphasis on what latitude and longitude actually measure.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
Geography Basics Institute 2006 Lessons Part Two
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Description: The Geography Basics Institute lesson plans cover a variety of topics. This document contains the following lesson plans:
Part Two:
Exploring the Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - Page 1
Tsunami: Catching the Ultimate Wave - Page 17
What Are the Colors of Your State? - Page 29
Great Circles, Small Circles, and Distance - Page 37
What is Earth Science? What is Geography? - Page 47
Moisture: Using a Psychrometer - Page 57
Albedo - Page 63
Pressure & Wind - Page 69
As Far As the Eye Can See: Exercises in Remote Sensing - Page 77
5 Themes of Geography - Page 93
Geographical Journey of Lewis and Clark - Page 101
Where In the World Am I? - Page 107
Population Thematic Maps - Page 110
Push-Pull Factors - Page 115
Latitude and Longitude Shape Africa - Page 125
South America Map It - Page 132
Mental Mapping Africa and Europe - Page 138
A Quarter’s Back Lesson - Page 144
In Between Geography - Page 147
Windows - Page 162
Windmills Around the World - Page 165
Interpreting the United States at Night - Page 171
Stand Up and Be Counted - Page 175
Mental Mapping - Page 181
Place and Poetry - Page 185
Tear the Continents - Page 189
3D Geobooks - Page 192
Let’s Go Caribbean - Page 197
Jamestown Virginia - Page 201
Geography of Normandy - Page 209
Alphabetize Germany - Page 216
Country in a Box - Page 222
Cultural Symbols: Our Scenic World - Page 227
Worldwide Conflict and War - Page 231
Using Photographs to Teach Geography - Page 233
The World is a Colorful Place - Page 239
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Marco Micozzi and Glenda Sullivan.
Geography Basics Institute 2006 Lessons Part One
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Description: The Geography Basics Institute lesson plans cover a variety of topics. This document contains the following lesson plans:
Part One:
What is Earth Science? - Page 1
Exercises in Remote Sensing - Page 13
Pressure & Wind - Page 29
Albedo - Page 37
Moisture - Page 43
Land & Water Contrasts - Page 55
Great Circles, Small Circles, and Distance - Page 67
Exploring the Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - Page 79
5 Themes of Geography - Page 103
Where In The World Am I?- Page 111
Alphabetize Germany - Page 117
Country in a Box - Page 124
3-D Geobooks - Page 129
Let’s go Caribbean - Page 134
Jamestown Virginia - Page 141
The World is a Colorful Place - Page 149
Using Photographs to Teach Geography - Page 152
Cultural Symbols, Our Creative World - Page 158
Worldwide Conflict and War - Page 163
Geography of Normandy - Page 165
Mental Mapping Africa and Europe - Page 172
South America Map It - Page 178
Latitude and Longitude Shape Africa - Page 183
Push-Pull Factors - Page 189
Population Thematic Maps - Page 199
Geographical Journey of Lewis and Clark - Page 205
Land & Water Contrasts - Page 255
Geology of the Wichita Mountains - Page 267
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Marco Micozzi, Glenda Sullivan, Dr. John Hogan, and Dr. M. Charles Gilbert
People + Places = Geography
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Description: Students will learn about Oklahoma astronauts and strengthen geographic skills through the use of maps, direction, key, legend, map symbols, and scale.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Pat Smith
Add a Dash of Space Photography to Your Geography
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Description: This lesson plan reviews and strengthens students’ geographic skills. Students will learn to identify, evaluate, and draw conclusions from different kinds of maps, aerial and space photographs, atlases, and computer based technologies. Students can develop use of mental mapping to organize and construct land forms.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: PASS, GFL
Produced By: Pat Smith