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Hawaii Vocabulary Word Jumble
In this Hawaii vocabulary learning exercise, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with the state of Hawaii. Students spell 20 words.
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Advertise With Geography...it's Free And It's Easy!!
Students establish awareness of how landforms/landmarks produce a visual image of a region and demonstrate how advertisers use the "positive geographical image" to sell their product by creating their own advertisements.
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Fort Clatsop: The Corps of Discovery's Winter at Fort Clatsop
High schoolers investigate the Lewis and Clark expedition and how it helped to shape American expansion during its early history. Students reflect upon the period of history and its implications for America.
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Lesser Known Influences of the Pacific Northwest
Learners engage in research about the development of the Pacific Northwest using specific individuals to emphasize different racial and gender influences in the 1800's. The research method that is used is inquiry based.
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Global Geography of Economics: the Indiana Steel Industry
Students research and identify positive and negative effects of imported steel on the Indiana steel industry.
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Global Geography of Economics: The Indiana Steel Industry
Students are introduced to how steel is made and investigate the importance of the steel industry. They participate in a role-play that explores the concepts of taxes, tariffs and imports vs. domestic production.
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The Bill of Rights
Fifth graders examine the Bill of Rights and explain the basic freedoms contained in it. They illustrate the Bill of Rights and write essays why the Constitution needed it.
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Cultural America
Seventh graders investigate the cultural differences that can be found in America. They discuss what it means to be called an American. The patterns of migration to America are discussed with the use of maps and geographical terms....
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Geography of the English Settlements
Third graders locate several important American colonial cities on a map and research how their proximity to water and nearby arable land affected the rate and success of settlement.
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Group Newspaper-American System of Government
Eighth graders, in groups, design, research, and create a newspaper that explains four historical events that have influenced the American system of government.
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Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Students examine the early years of Harry Truman to determine how his upbringing influenced his character. His political career from county judge to president is explored and some of the decisions made as a politician, evaluated.
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The Kanaka Village at Fort Vancouver: Crossroads of the Columbia River
Students study the interaction between Native American and European cultures in the Pacific Northwest in the 1800s. They focus their study on the Hudson's Bay Company and Fort Vancouver.
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Focused Learning Lesson: World Geography
Students examine the impact that humans have had on the environment and the difficulties the environment can cause. They also examine major physical changes as a result of human action or natural causes.
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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers i
Students explore the challenges involved in carrying out a program to care for the needs of Civil War veterans an to mark their graves after their deaths. The biography of a veteran from the community is researched and written in this...
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Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
Students use maps, readings and photographs to locate prisoner of war camps in the North during the Civil War. They identify the camp's population sizes and mortality rates and how the camps' uses have changed over time.
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States of Fitness
Young scholars participate in physical activities coordinating to divisions on a map.
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Washington's Rise Begins
In groups, 5th graders examine George Washington's journals. Students compare Washington's journals to present day journals.
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The Three Faces of Isaac Stevens
Eighth graders examine three images of Isaac Stevens for information about the man and his activity as a US soldier, territorial governor and participant in treaty councils. Students are also shown Union Army pictures with different...
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Civil War in Vietnam
Students view and discuss Powerpoint presentation on Vietnamese Conflict, read essay, Resuscitation of the Dead Earth, review vocabulary, and answer critical thinking questions as a class.
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Geography
Second graders study and review geographical terms for features. They classify those features and locate them on a map. They review geographical features of Tall Tales.
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Geography and AIDS
Students use Internet research to complete and compare maps and view a video to explore the AIDS/HIV crisis in parts of Africa. They discuss their findings.
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Finding Fresh Scenes - Geography With Monet
Fourth graders locate a site in Indiana that has a different look or topography than their hometown. They develop a brochure for this place from the point of view of a publicist who desires artists to come to this area and paint the...
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Introduction to a Unit on the 1930's Depression in America
High schoolers view and discuss photographic images of the Dust Bowl by Dorothea Lange. They discuss who Dorothea Lange was and why she took the pictures, the conservational factors that contributed to the Dust Bowl and migrant workers...
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Comparing Northwest Native American Communities
Students review how to use the database from previous lessons. Using the information, they identify the historical and environmental effects on the people living in the Pacific Northwest. They examine the various Native American groups...
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