Description: To provide support structures for students to analyze primary and secondary sources.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Here We Go to the Super Bowl!
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
Colorado River Drainage Basin: Fight for Sustainability
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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
The Chisholm Trail
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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
The Parrot Says: Save the Rainforest
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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
How are Mexico and Central America Linked?
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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
With Whom Does the U.S. Trade, What Do They Trade, and Why?
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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
Urbanization of India: "Push" and "Pull" Factors
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This lesson focuses on the causes and challenges of India’s rapid rural-to-urban migration.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
Communism or Capitalism: Which is Best For China - A Command Economy or A Free Market Economy?
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Description: In recent years the People’s Republic of China has increasingly adopted capitalist models for its economy with much success. Will China’s leaders be able to hold onto these changes or will they pull back and revert to the command economy of the past?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
The Political Puzzle of Modern Europe
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Students will locate the European nations of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy on a map of Europe along with their capital. They will analyze the types of government systems that each of these countries has and organize these governments on a compare-and-contrast chart.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
Reclaiming the Sea: Polders in the Netherlands
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To acquire understanding and importance of polders and analyze how humans have adapted the environment in the Netherlands.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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
Exploring the World's Major Religions
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Description: Students will compare the major world religions of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, and Islam.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
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
EU Who?
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Description: The single market economy and common currency provides a unique situation for the European countries that belong to the European Union (EU). This commonality bridges the differences between governments and languages, but presents difficulties for nations with a higher gross domestic product (GDP) in their attempt to assist developing EU countries.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
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Description: Most students will know the issues involved in historic migrations to the United States from Europe and Asia, and more recent ones from Central and South America. Fewer know of the issues involved in migrations from much of North Africa and the Arabic-speaking world to Europe. This lesson will provide information to fill those gaps of knowledge and to give students opportunities to improve their skills of visual literacy.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
Debating the Issue: Sweden's Economic System
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Students will evaluate the mixed market economy of Sweden through persuasive writing.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
Mix-N-Match: Geography Essentials for the Common Core
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Description: The purpose of this activity is to provide students with a sense of positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, and whole class participation. This is a review activity where half the class has one part of a pair of cards and the other half of the class has the matching card. The students must change positions to find their match. They can review content and have fun at the same time.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
A Threat to Northern Africa: Desertification
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Students will examine the process of desertification by identifying important terms relevant to this process. Students will get to analyze the cause and effects of desertification in Northern Africa by studying a regions map of Africa.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
China's One Child Policy
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This lesson focuses on analysis of the causes and effects of China’s population control policies commonly referred to as their “one-child policy."
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall