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Census Statistics

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders become familiar with the geography of Ireland. They explore the processes involved in data collection. Students examine and discuss Census Statistics and read and interpret maps/graphs. They decide how the census data can...
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Sand, Sand, Everywhere Sand

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the physical characteristics of four types of desert regions. For this desert regions lesson, students watch a video about deserts and discuss the deserts. Students compare the deserts and research the ways humans have...
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Photographic Journal of Maui

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use the photo album to write descriptive paragraphs. They write essays that compare the human and physical characteristics between Maui and Oahu.
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Walk and Bike Across America

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students learn how to use maps, compute mileage, and be physically active while exploring America's national parks, historical heritage, and nutritional information via key agricultural sites.
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State Your Mission

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore state history and geography that correspond with classroom lessons.
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Postcards Across America

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders increase knowledge and awareness of the location and physical features of each of the fifty states in America.
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Most Wonderful Gift

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discover that folktales reveal a great deal about the place in which they originate. They identify physical and human characteristics of a place and explain how culture influences the way people think. They illustrate cultural...
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People and Places

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how the geography of the land effected the human experience of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They research using primary and secondary sources, design a map.
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Mystical Chinese

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore various Chinese beliefs about the environment. Using the internet, they research the characteristics of Feng Shui. They discuss how human actions modify the physical environment and vice versa. They discover how the...
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Introduction to the Barnegat Bay Estuary

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research estuaries. In this estuaries lesson, students discuss the differences in a bay and an ocean. Students watch a PowerPoint of the properties of the estuaries and geography of Barnegat Bay. Students complete a worksheet...
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Traveling the Transcontinental from Yesterday to Today

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the impact of the train on the physical landscape and spatial organization of America. They read and analyze various poems, analyze maps, and develop a list of the positive and negative changes brought by the...
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Body and Mindscapes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view artwork by Robert Harris of landscapes and mountains. Using a map, they locate and identify the physical features of the Canadian province they live in. In groups, they use one of his paintings and add music to...
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Settling Nroth America: Improvisation and Playwriting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students map the classroom by marking the movement of the first Americans' migration from Alaska down into North America. To improve their skills in map-reading and sense of direction, students identify physical features of the map and...
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See the World

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders locate and write creatively about different places and their cultures. They identify the physical, economic, social, political and cultural characteristics of selected regions in the Eastern Hemisphere. Finally, 7th...
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A Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the motion of water currents by mapping the possible movement of messages cast into the ocean in bottles.They accurately plot the appearance of bottles on a world map and illustrate the flow of an ocean current...
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Exploring Explorers

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders illustrate the routes taken by different explorers on a world map. They explain the need for the different exploration voyages. Students explore the web for information that may contain different points of view or...
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Desert Postcards

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research characteristics of deserts. They present their findings in small groups to the class. Students utilize information learned about desert biomes, geography of the route of the Niger, and expeditions in their writing.
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Food and Languages of the World

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore and notice how foods from different countries of the world are alike and different.  In this food and languages of the world lesson, students examine fruit and bread from a variety of countries around the world....
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Forest Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze physical and biological changes in the Sequoia forest ecosystem, especially logging and fire management practices. They evaluate the controversy of how logging and fire management should be conducted in the Giant Sequoia...
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Lesson 9-Our Local Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm and create a list of important features/characteristics that they would want to include in a community setting. They include physical features, economic activities, kinds of housing, etc. This lesson plan is a...
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Eat Your State

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the three major crops, some of the specialty crops, a natural resource from Indiana. They identify where they are located with 90% accuracy. Students map the physical regions of Indiana and identify the major...
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Our State Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students take a virtual tour of the country of China instead of a state. Using the Internet, they examine the differences between a political and physical map and use latitude and longitude to locate specific places. They also research...
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The Search for the Five Themes

For Teachers 6th
As a review for their study of geography, 6th graders read the worksheet questions and then click on the links in blue to locate the answers. They then write them on the worksheet to turn in.
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Mapping The Way With Lewis & Clark

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze and compare maps used on the expedition of Lewis and Clark. Students write reports about the geography of the land. They answer questions about Lewis & Clark.

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