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The first part of this lesson focuses on the pre-colonial ethnic history of Nigeria. The second part looks at how European colonization impacted the area’s development. The third part shifts the focus to modern times and the north-south conflicts of today.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Students will examine how a change in the lake can directly affect the lives of humans and other living creatures. Students will determine the changes in the environment of distant places around the explosion and organize these affects in a poster project.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to identify the four main, ancient cultural hearths and their relative locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: Norway's once vast oil reserves in the North Sea are dwindling, and the government is facing tough choices when planning for the country's economic future. The prospect that oil might one day run out, together with the growing threat from global climate change, means the need for alternative energy sources has never been greater. A key lesson from decades of burning exhaustible fossil fuels is the importance of renewable - or at least less damaging - resources. How will Norway adjust to this threat?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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This lesson helps students discover the multiple elements that come together to make genocide possible. The focus of the lesson is on the role different elements of society played in causing or allowing the genocide to happen.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: The United States has contributed over three billion dollars in private aid aimed at alleviating world hunger. The issue has been taken up by world organizations including the United Nations and at the G8 Conference. Concerns over food security, economic instability in Africa, education of women, growth of single crops for export (especially to China) have been addressed, and yet hunger is still a problem in Africa. Why?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to learn about India’s caste system and its effect on cultural unity.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description:The Sahara and Sahel have been the habitat for nomadic people for over 800 years. Only in the last century has their entire way of life been threatened. Most people envision nomads as men and women wandering over the desert on a camel. This lesson is designed to show students that these groups have an established political and social structure, pastoralist-based economy, and infuse art and religion into their everyday lives.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: Using the Big 12 Football schedule as a guide, your students will learn about the geographical and historical significance surrounding the participating teams' campuses, home cities or towns, home states, mascots, players, and more!
Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Glenda Sullivan, Joseph Rohr, Annie Elsberry, William E. Amburn, Marilyn Pineda, Janet Hall, Denise Aguilar, Ginny Rohr, Darren Purcell, Jayne Marley, and Rita Barnett.
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Description: This is a collection of lesson plans about geo-skills from the OKAGE 2012 Summer Institute.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: OKAGE
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Description: Physical characteristics associated with ethnic background and cultures develop over time through a process known as natural selection. In this lesson students will explore this process through an activity that simulates the natural selection process in birds. Students will later analyze the physical characteristics of people from various countries by exploring photos from the “Photo of the Day” project from National Geographic.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
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Description: Students will explore five of the Forbes.com “Top 10” cities to live in 2010 by analyzing non-fiction text about each city. Students will participate in a dual-phase Jigsaw activity to read and analyze the text. Students will then make claims about which city is the best city in which to live. Students will back this claim up with evidence they gain from the texts.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
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Description: Students will examine and explore the factors that impact population dynamics including limiting factors such as food, water, and shelter. Students will also examine the role engineers have in addressing limiting factors that impact carrying capacities within a population.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
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Description: Students may encounter differences in cultures through the course of their lives, but they may not fully recognize how cultures develop. Some cultures share characteristics while some aspects about a culture are distinctly different. Through this lesson students will explore the processes that influence cultural characteristics. Students will also have an opportunity to explore and present cultures connected to their own families and backgrounds.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to have students to see the relationships between physical systems and population density. They will use map skills to see relationships in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: Students will learn why the Berlin Wall was erected and the impact it had on the German people as well as the powerful message the Communist government of the Soviet Union sent to the world.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: In this lesson students will interpret portions of Lewis and Clark’s journal to gain a better understanding of the physical processes that shape the northwest United States.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will explore and gain an understanding of the cultural history of the Oceanic islands and the impact it had on modern society in this region.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will discover and evaluate cultural life in India through fictional literature.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will learn that, although 85% of Warsaw, Poland, was destroyed during World War II, the Polish people have rebuilt their city and have one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
