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Ducksters

Ducksters: United States Geography: Regions

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the geographical regions of the United States including the northeast, southeast, Midwest, southwest, and west.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Tribes and Regions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids learn about where Native American Indian tribes and regions in the United States on this site.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Borders and Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of essays about the United States - Mexico border is useful in studying how living along a border affects people.
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Sea Grant: Nab the Aquatic Invader

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose a region in the United States and use your detective skills to help find the top ten organisms that are invading those areas.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: The Iraq War: 10 Years Later, Where Do We Stand?

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. invasion of Iraq was ten years ago this week. This article describes the impact that the war has had on both the U.S. and Iraq, as well as other countries in the region.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: What Is a Desert?

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the United States Geological Survey, you can read an informative and scientific explanation of what deserts are and what occurs in them. View pictures of deserts and a diagram showing the distribution of deserts in Africa.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Comparing Countries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Excellent lesson in which students make predictions and collect information about the United States, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. After collecting data, students compare the information and create graphs to display the data.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics: Victim Characteristics: Race/ethnicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides downloadable reports on rates and types of criminal activity in the United States in different years and regions. Includes data on crimes against various ethnic groups and races.
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Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy: Animals We Protect: Karner Blue Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the beauty of the Karner blue butterfly found in the Great Lakes region and the northeast United States.
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Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Israel/palestinian Territories Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions on the nature of conflict. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion, holidays and culture of this region....
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Wyoming Ground Squirrel

For Students 4th - 8th
Wyoming Ground Squirrels are found in three separate regions of the western United States at elevations above 1,500 meters. Their geographic centers are in southwestern Montana, central and southwestern Wyoming, and southwestern Idaho,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Jaguar

For Students 4th - 8th
Once native to the southwestern United States, breeding populations of Jaguars no longer exist in the region, and populations in Central and South America have become very small. Only in parts of the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Pallid Bat

For Students 4th - 8th
Common throughout its range, the pallid bat occurs in arid and semi-arid regions throughout northern Mexico and the western United States. Pallid bats eat beetles, grasshoppers, and moths, and they forage for slow-moving prey, such as...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Mass Exodus From the Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Restoring Women to World Studies [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In much of the social studies-especially courses focused on world history, geography, and culture-there has been a long-standing awareness that the experience of women has been left out of the narrative. Recent changes in state,...

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