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
The Decline of Oil Reserves in the North Sea
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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
Rwanda- Ethnic Conflict
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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
Crisis in Africa: The United Nation's Mission to Feed the Children of Africa
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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
India Caste System
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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
Desert People
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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
Gridiron Geography - 2012
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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.
The Nitty Gritty City: Becoming an Urban Geo-Detective
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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