Global Football Through the Media's Lens

Click on the image above to download the lesson

Description: Students will gain an understanding of the role of media as a source of public information regarding geographic events, development, and issues by examining and weighing the validity of various forms of media. The environmental challenge of climate change is used to illustrate the six basic purposes of media, utilizing an interactive online global tour. Students will have the opportunity to expand their research and technological skills through the production of online global tours, investigating additional topics of desertification, deforestation, pollution, overpopulation, and urban sprawl.

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

Bon Appetit: Food Security on a Hungry Planet

Click on the image above to download the lesson. This lesson will open in a Google Drive folder instead of a zipped file due to its size.

Description: Students will investigate the status of food security and accessibility in both developed and developing nations through a study of the typical week’s dietary intakes of a global sampling of families, using classroom-ready Tourbuilder lessons, which combine Google mapping technology, digital maps, photographs, and video clips. Teacher-centered instruction will introduce students to the current practices of agriculture in developing nations, as well as provide background information regarding potential solutions to address food security. During the course of the lesson, students will be engaged in the analysis of maps, graphs, and cartograms to gain an understanding of the spatial relationships between food availability, trade, and population growth.

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

Blown Away! Oklahoma's Wind Energy

Click on the image above to download the lesson

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

Examining Statistics: Oklahoma's Wind Energy

Click on the image above to download the lesson

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

Resources and Population Patterns: What's the Connection? - Updated 2025

Click on the image above to open the lesson. It will open as a Google Doc.

Description: Students will analyze data including a variety of special purpose maps of Oklahoma to determine the reason for population growth and decline in specific areas. The Giant Traveling Map of Oklahoma is used to help students understand the changing population distribution across Oklahoma.

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

Conflict Kitchen

Click on the image above to download the lesson

Description: The United States has conflicts with other countries. U.S. citizens have perceptions that are often negative toward these countries. How can we change these perceptions in our students? The answer is educating students about the culture and people of these countries, hence, the importance of geography classes. This lesson will allow the students to explore the culture of a country they are studying and work to change perceptions.

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Brenda Chapman

You're so Fake!

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

Description: Students will be able to distinguish between what is real news and fake news.

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

The Oklahoma Standard: Tornados - Updated 2025

Click on the image above to open the lesson. It will open as a Google Doc.

Description: Students will develop an understanding of how tornados form. Identify and locate the cities where the top 10 worst tornados in Oklahoma occurred on the Giant Map of Oklahoma. They will specifically gather and analyze data from the Moore, Oklahoma 2013 tornado site using geospatial technology.

Grade level(s): Middle                    Standards: GFL, C3
Produced By: Denise Aguilar

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

Description: The word today struggles with the credibility of stories and sources. There are a variety of reasons for this phenomenon – satire, entertainment, political partisanship, and social media. Students will experience the process of determining credibility of sources. (Media Literacy)

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Brenda Chapman

Water We Going To Do?

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

Loaded Language: The Smoking Gun of Bias

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

Top Ten Most X-Treme Animals

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

I Have Heard of a Land: Using Oklahoma’s Giant Traveling Map, with Historical Maps, to Tell a Complete Story - Updated 2025

Click on the image above to open the lesson. It will open as a Google Doc.

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

Geography Teacher Technology Tool Kit

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

When Maps Lie

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

Carbon Footprints, Finding Solutions

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

Oklahoma Route 66 Must-See Attractions - Updated 2025

Click on the image above to open the lesson. It will open as a Google Doc.

Description: Students will discover the Mother Road, Route 66, by analyzing the history of the road, while specifically identifying locations of 10 must-see attractions on the Oklahoma portion by using the Giant Traveling Map of Oklahoma. They will discover the importance of each attraction and will create a presentation on a selected attraction. More Route 66 information and resources are available from the Oklahoma Route 66 Association.

Grade level(s): Middle School                 Standards: GFL, C3
Produced By: Denise Aguilar

Can You C-Me?

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

Description: This lesson asks students to investigate a scientific phenomenon, coronal mass ejections (CME), that could have major impacts on our infrastructure, society, and the world. However, strong coronal mass ejections are not well understood by scientists and the public is mostly unaware that this threat even exists. A Carrington Class CME could strike at any time, and depending on its strength and our response, the event could be so catastrophic that modern civilization is forever changed. Using a CME investigation as the backbone, teachers can take this lesson down a variety of paths that relate to human systems, environment, and society.

 Grade level(s): Middle School                 Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Danny Mattox

Cause and Effects of the Korean War

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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

Tectonic Leadership

Click on the image above to download the lesson.

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