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Description: Students will analyze and interpret geographic data, engage in critical thinking, and develop a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and environmental aspects of refugee resettlement in Oklahoma.
Grade level(s): Middle
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Cory Williams & Grace Gierach
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Description: In this lesson, students will use the Oklahoma or North America Giant Floor Map to explore where bald eagles can be found, what the requirements are for a healthy habitat, and how their habitats are affected by human activity.
Grade level(s): Middle
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky
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Description: This lesson is designed to introduce students to best practices for visiting city, state, and national parks. Students will learn how to enjoy and appreciate parks and other public lands while respecting other visitors, the land, and wildlife.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky
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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 resource is designed to show how Geography can be used to supplement instruction in World Languages. This packet includes a selection of each applicable Oklahoma Academic Standard for World Languages and its alignment to the relevant National Geography Standard(s). The goal of the National Geography Standards is to enable students to become geographically informed through knowledge and mastery of three things: (1) factual knowledge; (2) mental maps and tools; (3) and ways of thinking. Contact us at okage@ou.edu to receive free resources and for more ideas about how to use Geography in your classroom.
This packet includes standards from the following revision:
World Languages (2021)
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky and Grace Gierach
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Description: This resource is designed to show how Geography can be used to supplement instruction in Social Studies. This packet includes a selection of each applicable Oklahoma Academic Standard for Social Studies and its alignment to the relevant National Geography Standard(s). The goal of the National Geography Standards is to enable students to become geographically informed through knowledge and mastery of three things: (1) factual knowledge; (2) mental maps and tools; (3) and ways of thinking. Contact us at okage@ou.edu to receive free resources and for more ideas about how to use Geography in your classroom.
This packet includes standards from the following revision:
Social Studies (2019)
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky and Grace Gierach
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Description: This resource is designed to show how Geography can be used to supplement instruction in English Language Arts. This packet includes a selection of each applicable Oklahoma Academic Standard for English Language Arts and its alignment to the relevant National Geography Standard(s). The goal of the National Geography Standards is to enable students to become geographically informed through knowledge and mastery of three things: (1) factual knowledge; (2) mental maps and tools; (3) and ways of thinking. Contact us at okage@ou.edu to receive free resources and for more ideas about how to use Geography in your classroom.
This packet includes standards from the following revision:
English Language Arts (2021)
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Becca Palczynsky and Grace Gierach
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Description: Explore complex geographic topics and concepts such as population distribution, economic geography, and public health on an elementary level using the Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts and the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics. Students will read the book, “If the World Were 100 People” by Jackie McCann and will use statistical literacy skills to research global statistics independently or with a group to create their own book including the information they found, visual representations of the information, and illustrations.
Grade level(s): Elementary School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: J. Scott Greene & Becca Palczynsky
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Description: In this lesson students will analyze the rise of two government systems around the world which are considered polar opposites: democracy and authoritarianism.
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Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Cody Sivertsen
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Description: This lesson covers disaster preparedness and recovery and how these strategies differ across local, regional, and global scales. Impacts upon disaster response as they relate to existing socioeconomic inequities along with complicating factors due to COVID-19 will also be discussed. Additionally, the issue of climate change will be explored as it relates to disaster frequency and intensity.
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Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher, and Dr. Mark Shafer with the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program
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Description: Students will understand the causes and effects of climate change. They will also be able to determine the difference between mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change. In this lesson, students will apply adaptation strategies to real-world climate change scenarios.
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Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: J. Scott Greene, Ph.D.; Angela Trent
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Description: Students will investigate natural disasters, discover the urgency to be prepared, and create an emergency kit which they will present to the class.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: When geographers look at a particular place or landscape, they look at its spatial organization. Geographers focus on the built environment or look of human places and ask what processes or activities are happening in those areas. All positive and negative human actions on any landscape or place create various unique spatial patterns. When thinking about the look of places, density, concentration and pattern represent how any space is organized. When examining large or small places, we encounter areas that have similar or common characteristics, which help create regions. Once a region is recognized, we can look at various similarities closely, then study, discuss and interact with various unique topics or issues within that area.
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Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Gary Gress, Ph.D.
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Description: Students will evaluate the impact of a region’s major religions, including geographic hearths, major beliefs, customs, and the significance of religion in contemporary societies, and explain how religion can both unify and divide people.
Grade level(s): Middle School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Jeff Woolsey
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Description: The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to the concept of sovereignty and its necessity to assure the survival of the Earth’s most unique, as well as threatened, cultures. Through a simulated conference among representatives of various indigenous groups, students will investigate eight case studies of conflict and cooperation between indigenous groups and governments whose exercise of authority endangers their lands, political rights, and social rights. A review of the goals of the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People serves as a catalyst for student-created resolutions to address the problems from these eight case studies through mock deliberation and debate.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: The students will understand the causes and effects of climate change. Students will also be able to apply adaptation strategies to real-world climate change scenarios.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: J. Scott Greene; Angela Trent
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Description: The objective of the lesson is to introduce students to the concept of a refugee, as opposed to economic migrants, including an analysis of the primary causes of forced migration and the three basic responses to refugee crises around the world. Students will compare an historical example of forced migration, resulting in the refugee status of one of Oklahoma’s tribal people to the status of contemporary examples of refugees in both the western and eastern hemisphere. Students are encouraged to demonstrate their own independent inquiries into the international refugee crises through the creation of a Thinglink digital product, which can be shared online with fellow students.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: The students will analyze causes and possible solution to ocean debris with an emphasis on plastics.
Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: The students will analyze causes and possible solution to ocean debris with an emphasis on plastics.
Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: The student will recognize the long-term costs and consequences of industrial waste on environmental and on human health by studying three separate sites suffering from mining waste toxins.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: N/A
Produced By: Janet Hall
