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Geographypods

Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Vulnerability

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines people's vulnerability to hazards and disasters. It looks at the reasons people live in hazard-prone areas, what factors affect their vulnerability, and what vulnerability looks like in different types of...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Adjustments and Responses

For Students 11th - 12th
In this learning module, students learn about disaster responses, the three types (short, medium, and long-term) and the different levels of response (local, national, and international). They examine the responses in various case...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Global Interactions: Measuring Global Interactions

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines what globalization is and how it affects different regions of the world. It looks at different aspects of globalization, including global interactions through technology. Includes student tasks, videos,...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Global Interactions: Changing Space the Shrinking World

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines how the world has become smaller as time and space have converged. Transportation is much faster, making places more accessible, goods can be more quickly and easily transported, and the Internet connects...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Global Interactions: Economic Interactions and Flows

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines how money travels around the world between more developed and less developed nations, and the various forms it takes. Includes slideshows, student tasks, videos, maps, charts, and case studies, including one...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Global Interactions: Political Outcomes

For Students 11th - 12th
In this learning module, students examine the economies of transnational corporations (TNCs) and compare them to those of nation states. Many TNCs are richer than nation states, which undermines the political sovereignty of those...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Freshwater: Issues and Conflicts: The Water System

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines the Earth's stores of fresh water and how the balance between stores of water in the oceans and in ice is changing. Students then investigate how a maximum sustainable amount of freshwater can be achieved by...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Freshwater: Issues and Conflicts: Drainage Basins and Flooding

For Students 11th - 12th
In this learning module, students learn how a watershed or drainage basin functions and the impact of human activities on them. Also covers groundwater, stream discharge, hydrographs, and the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Includes rich...
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Geographypods

Geographypods:freshwater: Issues and Conflicts: Competing Demands for Freshwater

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines conflicting demands for fresh water around the world. It looks at the water resources that are available, water scarcity, and local and international conflicts over water. Specific cases are explored,...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Earth's Energy Sources (Pre Assessment)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A pre-assessment at the beginning of a unit on global atmospheric change. It checks understanding of issues around climate change and the impact it has on the environment and on human health. The lesson and accompanying slideshow can...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Everyone Counts (Post Assessment)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on global atmospheric change. Students write persuasive letters about an issue related to it, e.g., the greenhouse effect or ozone loss. The letters encourage the recipient to protect the atmosphere...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Rainbow in the Room

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the properties of visible light and the sequence of colors in the spectrum using light shone through water and prisms. The lesson plan and accompanying slideshow can both be downloaded.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Fuel for Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about how cells fuel themselves by examining how carbon dioxide is produced by yeast cells when the cells feed on sugar. The carbon dioxide is detected through the use of a red cabbage indicator that reacts in the presence...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Making Sense!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Making Sense! is a colorful, engaging picture/storybook book that introduces students to the brain and the five senses as they solve mystery picture puzzles. Download the text or watch it in slideshow format.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: The Crisis of the Union (1835 1860)

For Students 9th - 10th
Teachers and students will enhance their lessons with the videos, lessons, and slideshows presented. This unit sets the stage for a nation expanding west following the Texas Revolution.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit in AP European History focuses on the transition toward a more scientific mindset in early modern Europe as a result of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Check out the lesson plans, videos, slideshows to enhance...
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: The French Revolution and Napoleon

For Students 9th - 10th
The lessons, videos, and slideshows will help those studying the French Revolution examine the problems causing the fall of the Old Regime and follow the French Revolution through its liberal, radical, and Napoleonic phases.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Industry and Isms (1815 1850)

For Students 9th - 10th
As the conservatives were establishing Conservativism, liberals were finding Liberalism, nationalists were creating Nationalism, and socialists were developing Socialism with their own ideas for a new order to establish on a continent...
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BBC

Bbc: Mapping the Destruction: Levee Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
Graphic and photographic slideshow that shows how the failed New Orleans levees are repaired.
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BBC

Bbc: The Story of Katrina

For Students 9th - 10th
Outstanding interactive photographic slideshow of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Biodiversity

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of articles, news items, photos, slideshows, animations, and scientific reports, all related to biodiversity. Many articles on different ecosystems, e.g., deserts, grasslands, forests, etc. An excellent resource for...
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University of Calgary

Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Media Construction of War

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a multi-unit curriculum kit relating to the study of war that incorporates media literacy. All material is free to download and includes teacher guides, student handouts, historical documents, slideshows, and more.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: The American Revolution (1750 1783)

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit picks up at the start of the French and Indian War and moves through the development of the new government of the United States. Find videos, slideshows, and primary sources.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Jefferson vs. Hamilton (1789 1800)

For Students 9th - 10th
Slideshows, lessons, primary sources, and videos present the United States during the final decade of the 18th century in the United States.

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