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Description: This lesson is designed to use the Giant Traveling Map of Asia to help students contextualize effects of light pollution in current events and upon migratory birds. These lesson materials are developed in support of OKAGE’s Geo-Inquiry project efforts.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Grace Gierach
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Description: This lesson is designed as a template for a project focused on exploring dark sky parks in America and around the world. This lesson may be used to enrich instruction in a variety of subjects including Science, Mathematics, English Language Arts, and Social Studies. The content presented in this lesson was selected as an illustrative example of how all subjects are used to understand a particular issue that impacts communities differently around the world and in Oklahoma.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Tristan Lloyd
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Description: This lesson was created as a template to design and site a pollinator garden and provide examples of how a pollinator garden may be used to enrich instruction in a variety of subjects including Science, Mathematics, English Language Arts, and Social Studies. The content presented in this lesson was selected as an illustrative example of how all subjects are used to understand a particular issue which impacts communities differently around the world and in Oklahoma. These lesson materials were developed in support of OKAGE’s Geo-Inquiry project efforts.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Tristan Lloyd
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Description: This session will cover strategies for teaching geography online, and will be led by OKAGE Teacher Consultant and National Geographic Certified Educator Clayton Canon. The content presented will be at the middle school level, but educators of all grade levels are welcome to use this resource.
Watch the recording of this session here.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Clayton Canon
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Description: Students will be exploring and showcasing an area of development taking place in their local area and how it is impacting their community.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: This LiveBinder provides a crash course in teaching Geography. Topics include the Five Themes of Geography, using data and maps, population, GIS resources, and more!
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: This resource includes information on a variety of technology tools that can be used for teaching Geography and World Studies. The resources outlined in this overview are free to use, compatible with any device, include interaction with maps and geographic data, provide opportunities for student inquiry and research, and offer online publication of student digital products.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to show teachers different ways to interject thinking activities into their daily lesson plans. Geography is an excellent subject for this type of activity because at the center of all geographic issues is the question of “why?” A list of thinking activities is provided in this session, most of which will use authentic and inquiry methodology. Teachers may adapt these activities and ideas to their particular classroom environment.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the abundance of information available to them in a desk atlas. By walking or “cruising” through the atlas, students will learn about the multitude of graphs, the many symbols, and how they are used. Students will examine legends, map scales, diagrams, charts, the compass rose, and thematic maps. Students will also learn the difference between political and physical maps.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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Description: Students will be able to distinguish between what is real news and fake news.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
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Description: The word today struggles with the credibility of stories and sources. There are a variety of reasons for this phenomenon – satire, entertainment, political partisanship, and social media. Students will experience the process of determining credibility of sources. (Media Literacy)
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Brenda Chapman
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with the opportunity to explore the language used by various media to sway public opinion.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School Standards: OAS
Produced By: Brian Davis
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Description: A technology tool kit for teachers to utilize in their classroom.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Brian Davis
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Description: Students will understand the limitations and uses of different map projections, as well as becoming familiar with how maps can be used to accidentally or intentionally misrepresent facts
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: This lesson offers teachers information and resources for assisting students in this process, while examining the topic of informational technology’s impact on developing nations, the cultural diffusion such technology has brought, and the political/social issues involved in determining access to information. This overview of the possibilities of producing digital learning products can be used anytime during the year.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: This lesson is designed to define, analyze, conceptualize, and apply the idea of political, physical, economic and cultural regions, concentrating on the United States in the Western hemisphere. This lesson involves student interaction, research, hands on activities, and class presentations with discussions. Various examples and scenarios through photos, web work, and maps will help students understand and internalize these key geographic types of regions.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Gary Gress
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Description: This lesson is designed to define, analyze and conceptualize the idea of formal, functional and popular (or vernacular regions), concentrating on one country in the Western hemisphere involving student interaction, research, hands on activities, and class presentations with discussion. Various examples and scenarios through photo’s, web work and maps will help students understand and internalize these key geographic types of regions.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Gary Gress
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Description: Students will review economic interdependence concepts and collaborate with peers to complete the task.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students prepare for state assessments measuring the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Geography. Participants will receive practical strategies for developing more rigorous classroom assessments, meeting the demands of depth of knowledge and formatting which students will encounter on future state assessments.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Brenda Chapman and Pam Merrill
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students glean information from primary documents. The modern world demands that students be able to navigate a reality dominated by visual information. Sight is the dominate sense, and modern communications media increasingly appeal to that sense. This means that students need to become visually literate, that is to develop the ability to look at an image, analyze it, and decode it. Students need to read images in the same sense they read text.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Brenda Chapman and Pam Merrill
