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Description: Students will examine conflicting sources on the causes of the Korean War. They will complete a cause-effect chart.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to examine how leaders in the countries affected by the Ring of Fire, shape geopolitical choices. Students will do this through readings and dramatizations. It is designed to introduce students to rulers in this region of the world and examine how they are shaping geo-political issues today. Students will also become familiar with some distinctive elements of the various cultures.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: Students will practice creating deeper questioning skills while learning about rainforest destruction in Indonesia.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Students will discover how the Hawaiian Islands were created. Students will learn how the volcanic eruptions affect humans and how they adapt and modify their environment.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: This lesson will focus on four counties which have been given the nickname Economic Tigers because of their aggressive economies. They are: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. The impact of the Ring of Fire on these economies will also be explored. This is a great hands-on lesson that will address some of the economic problems of today.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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Description: Using a variety of online, print, and visual evidence, students will be challenged to defend of refute the label, Ring of Fire, as an accurate and appropriate description of the physical region of the Pacific Rim and its history, as well as future potential for devastating tectonic events. As a conclusion to student investigations, students will create and publish their findings in an online, digital journal. The lesson is most effective if students have access to the internet at multiple stages of the lesson; however, options are available should access be limited.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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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: China’s territorial conflicts with neighboring countries not only include land conflicts with India. As China seeks to control potential underwater fossil fuel resources, their conflicts also extend into the East China Sea and the South China Sea and include high-tech “island creation” by China’s government. Students will analyze a series of graphics in order to understand and make predictions about these conflicts.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Students will discover how Vietnam has become one of southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies and has lifted millions out of poverty by moving the country into lower-middle income status.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Glenda Sullivan
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Description: Students will explore and then examine Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories and interpret one of them through creating an aboriginal painting.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Students will learn physical systems of Alaska and apply the information to a creative writing assignment.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: This lesson will present a list of websites with synopses of some of the many resources available on the World Wide Web to assist educators in teaching the “Ring of Fire.” This incredible geographic topic comes alive with the many visuals and hands-on interactive activities. Examples are: videos, PowerPoint presentations, interactive maps, vocabulary lists, quizzes, lesson plans, lecture notes, editorials, newspaper articles on current events and much more. Teachers can choose what works best in their classrooms.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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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: Deanice Shegog, Bailey Huntsman, Ginny Rohr, Marie Parrish, and Nicole Bolton.
