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Description: This LiveBinder provides a crash course in teaching Geography. Topics include the Five Themes of Geography, using data and maps, population, GIS resources, and more!
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will analyze the major controversies surrounding the rationale and impact of foreign aid to developing regions in order to formulate informed opinions and effectively engage in deliberations regarding financial assistance to growing economies.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL, OAS
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Students will examine basic reasons why some nations and regions develop while other do not, including analysis of the factors used by geographers to measure human development and two opposing models toward development, historically and currently utilized by developing nations’ leadership toward reaching economic progress. Use of real-world families from selected developed and developing regions serve as the catalyst for student investigations.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL, OAS
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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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: Ginny Rohr, Jeff Woolsey, Pam Merril, Janet Hall, Jeffery Widener, LeaAnn Wyrick, Jacob Rosecrants, and Brenda Chapman.
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Description: In this lesson, students will use the Oklahoma Giant Traveling Map to identify and gain a better understanding of notable historic and present day Oklahomans who made significant contributions to the state.
Grade level(s): Elementary (Adaptable to 8th & 10th grade American History)
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: This resource includes information on a variety of technology tools that can be used for teaching Geography and World Studies. The resources outlined in this overview are free to use, compatible with any device, include interaction with maps and geographic data, provide opportunities for student inquiry and research, and offer online publication of student digital products.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: In this lesson, students will use the Oklahoma Giant Traveling Map to identify and locate important state and local landmarks, as well as gain a better understanding of their historical significance.
Grade level(s): Elementary (Adaptable to 8th & 10th grade American History)
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to show teachers different ways to interject thinking activities into their daily lesson plans. Geography is an excellent subject for this type of activity because at the center of all geographic issues is the question of “why?” A list of thinking activities is provided in this session, most of which will use authentic and inquiry methodology. Teachers may adapt these activities and ideas to their particular classroom environment.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Teresa Begley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn the fundamental parts of a windmill, to use the scientific method to isolate and adjust variables when constructing a functional windmill that lifts weights, and to understand energy conversions/transfers and how a windmill converts moving air into usable mechanical energy. Students will understand that wind power is a choice we can make that reduces pollution and climate impacts.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Kylah McNabb; Teresa Potter
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to examine statistics and understand that as a society and as individuals, we can make choices to help reduce the climatic impact of electricity generation. Students will understand that generating power with the wind is a choice we can make that will reduce the severity of environmental issues.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Kylah McNabb; Teresa Potter
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Description: In this lesson, students will explore how water behaves on various substrates (ground surfaces), what occurs during a flood, and the causes of flash floods. This lesson concludes with students designing and testing various floodplain models intended to mitigate the effects of flash floods.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Danny Mattox
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Description: In this lesson students will explore the different immigration and migration patterns of settlement in post-reconstruction Oklahoma, and develop an appreciation of our rich cultural and ethnic heritage.
Grade level(s): High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with the opportunity to explore the language used by various media to sway public opinion.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School Standards: OAS
Produced By: Brian Davis
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Description: Students will gain experience in utilizing technology and geographic tools, while studying conservation and human-animal conflict in Africa.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS
Produced By: LeaAnn Wyrick
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Description: Geography is the landscape on which History happens. In this lesson, students will use an award-winning historical fiction picture book, the Oklahoma Giant Traveling Map, and a series of Oklahoma historical maps, to gain a better understanding of why Blacks from the South, single women, and other pioneers came to participate in the land runs, as well as the impact on Native Americans already living in the areas. Students will gain an appreciation and understanding that history usually has more than one perspective to events happening.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Lynn Tilley
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Description: A technology tool kit for teachers to utilize in their classroom.
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: N/A
Produced By: Brian Davis
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Description: Students will understand the limitations and uses of different map projections, as well as becoming familiar with how maps can be used to accidentally or intentionally misrepresent facts
Grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: Students will gain understanding in the climate change. Students will engage in technology and create an action plan addressing the world-wide conservation and environmental crisis while learning human-environmental interaction concepts related in geography.
Grade level(s): Middle School, High School
Standards: OAS, C3
Produced By: LeaAnn Wyrick
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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: Ginny Rohr, Dr. Darren Purcell, Jeff Woolsey, Janet Hall, Pam Merrill, Virginia Silvis, LeaAnn Wyrick, Bill Amburn, and Dr. Scott Greene.
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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.
