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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: This lesson explores how the weak infrastructure practices of Haiti contributed to the severity of the impacts of the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, and prolonged the country’s recovery time from this disaster. This case study will help students understand how physical hazards and societal risks can intersect to cause disasters.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Virginia Silvis
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Description: This lesson will help students understand causes of ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: The overall purpose of this lesson is to help students analyze a range of geographic information to develop a better understanding of human interactions with their environment via siting a wind farm in a foreign location. In this case, students’ analysis is of the island of Ireland.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Scott Greene
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Description: Students will gain an understanding of the historical context for modern-day Arab-Israeli conflicts, as well as involvement of the international community in contributing to and in trying to resolve conflict. They will also practice interpreting political cartoons over this topic.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Janet Hall
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Description: This lesson is designed to define, analyze, conceptualize, and apply the idea of political, physical, economic and cultural regions, concentrating on the United States in the Western hemisphere. This lesson involves student interaction, research, hands on activities, and class presentations with discussions. Various examples and scenarios through photos, web work, and maps will help students understand and internalize these key geographic types of regions.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Gary Gress
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Description: Culture is a term we take for granted that students understand, but the nuances of prejudice that are formed by misunderstanding are difficult to overcome. As groups of people use more and more stereotypes to describe culture, it becomes obvious that a country or region's culture is not considered a worthwhile part of their human existence. Culture may very well be the most important aspect of what it means to be human and by understanding and respecting the culture of other people we will come closer to being humane.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Jayne Marley
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Description: The goal of this lesson is to use map skills to gain an understanding of and make inferences about the effects of abundant oil supplies in the Middle East. Using maps, students will analyze data from a geographic perspective. They will gain an understanding of conflict and cooperation among specific groups over oil and religious differences. They will also have a better understanding of wind energy as an alternative form of energy.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Teresa Potter
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Description: Students will examine photos reflecting primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities. They will analyze the photos and be able to explain the difference between the three economic activities and the impact they have on a nation’s development.
Grade level(s): Middle School Standards: OAS, GFL
Produced By: Ann Kennedy
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Description: The objective of the lesson is to evaluate the benefits and challenges of continued development and dependence on nuclear energy as a source of power for developed, as well as developing nations. Using the essential questions “How can people cooperatively solve common challenges?” and “What responsibilities do we owe the preservation of the Earth’s environments?”, students will work as cooperative teams to investigate the current status of nuclear energy production and dependence, the geo-political issues arising from new access to nuclear power sources, and the impact of nuclear energy on the environment. Student learning and team research will be presented through a classroom “Fishbowl Global Summit”.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Pam Merrill
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Description: Culture may very well be the most important aspect of what it means to be human and by understanding and respecting the culture of other people we will come closer to being humane.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Jayne Marley
