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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the tradition of Japanese kite flying by means of cinquain poetry.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Helen Chaney-Hackney
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Description: Students will learn where pack animals continue to serve an important role economically in developing countries and cultures, even in this age of advanced technology.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: Students will discover that tulips were used as currency in the Netherlands and what caused Tulip Mania in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: Students will gain an understanding of different aspects of Japanese culture as well as comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences in Japanese and American cultures.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL, CC Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: The region of the Middle East is not easily defined. Its boundaries and included countries are determined by which type of region you are describing: economic, cultural, religious, historical or geographic. For precisely this reason, it is an excellent area of the world to use to introduce students to the different types of regions that we study in geography.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: Immigration is a topic that students hear about nearly every day and one that is probably talked about at home. Immigration has always been a controversial subject but has led to the diversity of the United States that all of us take for granted. Christmas trees and Santa Claus came to the U.S. by way of German immigrants, children love to wear green and pinch people on St. Patrick's Day, and even our beloved pizza would not be around without the arrival of Italian immigrants. Immigration also brought about ethnic densities in metropolitan areas due to housing and job opportunities and the lack of monetary resources to enable movement to other locales.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: This lesson shows how some countries in the Middle East are alike in many ways and is an anticipatory activity to the lesson Odd Man Out, which was presented at Session II of the 2011 World Geography Academy, October 19. Our perceptions are that all of the countries labeled as being in the “Middle East” have nearly all of the same regional characteristics. By beginning with those perceptions, it will be easier to move on to the more complex characteristics in another lesson.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: In this lesson, students learn about a coming-of-age ritual for upper-caste Hindu boy, and practice textual analysis in small groups.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Helping students understand the complexities of cause-effect relationships in contemporary world geography is best accomplished through the modeling and creation of graphic organizers which reflect such relationships in easily understood, visual ways. Using a scaffolding approach to introduce and reinforce such geographic concepts, such as “human- environment interaction,” (HEI) is an effective learning experience that can be applied to any regional study of the western or eastern hemispheres. The on-going practice in interpreting teacher-created and developing student-created visual graphic organizers, as well as kinesthetically manipulating the basic components of HEI relationships into a “desktop” graphic organizer, reinforces students’ abilities to identify the “causes” versus “effects” of geographic conditions.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students calculate the population density of countries in Europe and create a color map accordingly.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Traci Ketchum
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students demonstrate an understanding of the interconnectedness of global issues using a kinesthetic exercise.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Traci Ketchum
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Description: Students will look at global population growth and make predictions about how society and population issues will impact one another in the future.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: In this lesson, students learn about push factors and pull factors of immigration/emigration.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Students will be able to apply cultural characteristics to a graphic novel with a storyline which has a logical beginning and end.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will decipher what a Spanish "Conquistador" was, identify and distinguish among important Spanish conquistadors while locating their exploration routes on a world map and examine the effect each had with his migration to the new world culturally, socially, and economically.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Students will define and distinguish the differences among these terms: migration, explorer, nomad, and descendent. They will examine the reasons for human advancement into the Americas, map the routes (including the major obstacles) taken by the "First" Americans, discover the effects their migration had on the development of the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to have students compare and contrast Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will create an alphabet fact book and a digital cartoon to highlight what they have learned.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to engage students in exploring how every day activities such as tourism can affect the environment in positive and negative ways. Students create digital movies and cartoons to debate environmental issues. They learn the process of debate and participate in a debate. Students also hypothesize about solutions to the environmental, economical and cultural effects of tourism.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is two-fold: to familiarize students with the characteristics of a developed country and those of a developing country; and to acquaint students with the differences in distribution of natural resources in developed and developing countries.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: Students will be introduced to three key phases (preview/motivation, acquisition of knowledge, and extension of learning) necessary for in-depth comprehension of any type of textual information from both primary and/or secondary sources. By utilizing a hands-on case study of the Quechua rural villages of Andean Bolivia, students will experience these three phases, practicing effective research-based strategies and skills. Simultaneously, students will be given the opportunity to examine the interactions of humans who have positively modified their environments in order to satisfy their nutritional needs through somewhat unconventional means.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Pam Merrill
