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Description: Students will compare the major political systems and describe the role that citizens have in government.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
Hungry for Humanity
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Description: Students will gain understanding in the world-wide humanitarian crisis, causes of food insecurity, humanitarian relief efforts by the United Nations to address hunger in Africa, and other humanenvironmental interaction concepts related in geography.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: LeaAnn Wyrick
Give Peace a Chance
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Description: Students will be able to identify four areas of the world currently receiving help from the UN and will be able to write a brief, informal blog post demonstrating their knowledge of an area of the world in crisis and how it is being affected.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
Globalization, You're Living It.
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Description: Students will use consumer products to analyze interactions of economies and understand how globalization affects their everyday life.
Grade level(s): Middle
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
Race to the Arctic
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Description: The objective of the lesson is to evaluate the underlying causes and develop proposals for addressing the future use of natural resources in the changing environment of the Arctic region. Using the essential questions “How can people cooperatively solve common challenges?” and “What responsibilities do we owe the preservation of Earth’s natural resources?” students will work as cooperative teams to investigate the current changes in the Arctic’s environment, the geo-political issues arising from new access to valuable resources, and the impact current regional conflicts have had on the environment, relationships among the international community, and the economic development of the Arctic region.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Pam Merrill
The Humanitarians
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Description: Non-Governmental Organizations play a huge role in humanitarian response to crises in the world. They are often the first on the scene of a natural disaster and provide relief in political upheaval. The role of the NGO, or as the term is evolving, Civil Society Organization is changing, the organizations themselves facing financial deficits, and the humanitarian role finding itself increasingly unwelcome and sometimes in danger in its attempt to help those who need it most.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
Economic Freedom
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Description: How much does economic freedom determine the extent of economic development in a country? In this lesson students examine geographic and economic data and form a hypothesis about what affects the standard of living in more developed and less developed countries.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
I Want to Go There! Shaping Landforms
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Description: Students will gain understanding of Earth’s landforms utilizing map skills, geographic concepts, visual aids, creative-sensory exercise and hands-on learning with real world application.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: LeaAnn Wyrick
Conflict and Cooperation: Make Peace, Not War
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Description: Students will examine case studies of contemporary regional and global events in order to describe and analyze conflicts and cooperation between nations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
Our Five Oceans: Exquisite, Essential and Endangered
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Description: Through exploration and analysis of primary and secondary sources of visual information, and printed and digital texts, students will investigate and discover this interconnected nature, the importance of protecting the oceans, and how what happens to our oceans affects all life on earth.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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
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
Five Themes of Geography: Latin America Tour
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Description: Students will research a designated country using the five themes of geography and create a travel itinerary for Latin America.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
Historic Barriers to Transportation and Progress
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Description: Throughout history people have had to overcome problems with transportation before real progress could be made. Exploration, jobs, trade, communication, and adaptation to the environment were all challenges to people throughout history with transportation being the key to each. The purpose of this lesson is to investigate the impact that environmental barriers to transportation have had on people including human invention.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Bill Amburn
By Road, By Rail, By River
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Description: Economic decisions for four centuries have been based on how quickly a product can get to market. Transportation evolved to keep up with market demands. Trails became national roads, river and sea-going transportation increased in size to take on larger and more specialized loads, and rivers themselves underwent transformation into canal systems connecting larger bodies of water with inland ports.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
Major World Political Systems
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students information on representative governments and authoritarian systems throughout the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
Exploring El Niño and La Niña
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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
Climbing Weather
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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
World's Most Extreme: Human-Geo by Country
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Students will learn to analyze patterns by comparing information through a spatial perspective.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
Where are Water and Land Located?
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Description: To acquaint students with specific locations of landforms and bodies of water in the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith