Every Region Has A Reason: Lesson 2

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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

Globalization, You're Living It.

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Description: Students will use consumer products to analyze interactions of economies and understand how globalization affects their everyday life.

Grade level(s): Middle                     

Standards: OAS, GFL           

Produced By: Jeff Woolsey

Disasters Happen: Are You Ready?

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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                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Heather Braucher

Economic Interdependence: What's in Your Wallet?

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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

Taming the Dragon: The Yangtze and Three Gorges Dam

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Description: China’s Three Gorges Dam generates electricity, reduces the likelihood of flooding downstream, and has increased the shipping capacity of the river connecting the heartland of China to the Pacific Ocean. This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to explore how the building of the Three Gorges Dam has affected various groups of stakeholders and weigh the costs and benefits of the dam’s construction.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Jane Purcell

Conflict in the Syrian Civil War

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Description: This lesson examines the Syrian Civil War and examines the complexities of international actors intervening in the conflict, or choosing to avoid intervention. Using geographic terminology, the lesson provides background and examples of terms in action. This support Oklahoma standard 2.4, focusing on conflict and cooperation in the Eastern hemisphere with a case study.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Darren Purcell

Race to the Arctic

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Description: The objective of the lesson is to evaluate the underlying causes and develop proposals for addressing the future use of natural resources in the changing environment of the Arctic region. Using the essential questions “How can people cooperatively solve common challenges?” and “What responsibilities do we owe the preservation of Earth’s natural resources?” students will work as cooperative teams to investigate the current changes in the Arctic’s environment, the geo-political issues arising from new access to valuable resources, and the impact current regional conflicts have had on the environment, relationships among the international community, and the economic development of the Arctic region.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Pam Merrill

Russia's Arctic

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Description: Learn about Russia's Arctic through planning a trip to visit.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Ann Kennedy

The Humanitarians

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Description: Non-Governmental Organizations play a huge role in humanitarian response to crises in the world. They are often the first on the scene of a natural disaster and provide relief in political upheaval. The role of the NGO, or as the term is evolving, Civil Society Organization is changing, the organizations themselves facing financial deficits, and the humanitarian role finding itself increasingly unwelcome and sometimes in danger in its attempt to help those who need it most.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Jayne Marley

Boots On the Ground: Building Better Classroom Assessments to Measure Student Learning

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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

Subsistence Agriculture

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Description: Students often do not know about the tools and technologies used to produce food, they think its just made in a factory and shipped to a grocery store. This lesson will introduce the students to agriculture in less developed countries. Students will learn how people in various parts of Asia (and the world) modify the natural environment to meet food needs.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Jane Purcell

Examining the Evidence: Teaching With Documents

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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

Campaign to End Hunger in Africa

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Description: Students will understand socioeconomic issues in Africa and create a campaign to end hunger in the region.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Heather Braucher

Economic Freedom

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Description: How much does economic freedom determine the extent of economic development in a country? In this lesson students examine geographic and economic data and form a hypothesis about what affects the standard of living in more developed and less developed countries.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Ann Kennedy

Thinking like a HiSTORYan

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Description: Students will gain a deeper understanding of our history and geography by analyzing and interpreting primary sources.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Teresa Potter

I Want to Go There! Shaping Landforms

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Description: Students will gain understanding of Earth’s landforms utilizing map skills, geographic concepts, visual aids, creative-sensory exercise and hands-on learning with real world application.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: LeaAnn Wyrick

Conflict and Cooperation: Make Peace, Not War

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Description: Students will examine case studies of contemporary regional and global events in order to describe and analyze conflicts and cooperation between nations.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Jeff Woolsey

Our Five Oceans: Exquisite, Essential and Endangered

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Description: Through exploration and analysis of primary and secondary sources of visual information, and printed and digital texts, students will investigate and discover this interconnected nature, the importance of protecting the oceans, and how what happens to our oceans affects all life on earth.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Lynn Tilley

Changing the Score in South Africa

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Description: South African mining companies are key players in the global industry. In this lesson, students will analyze the interactions of humans and their environment in South Africa. They will gain a better understanding of contemporary issues and the positive and negative impacts of mining Africa’s rich reserves of valuable minerals.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Teresa Potter

What's Up With the Yangtze River?

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Description: Students will discover the benefits as well as the disadvantages of building the largest hydroelectric power station in the world at Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL, CC       Produced By: Glenda Sullivan