Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Disparities in Wealth and Development
This collection of four learning modules looks at issues related to the unequal distribution of wealth and economic development. Examines how this is measured and presents student video assignments on this topic, followed by a discussion...
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Geographypods: Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
This collection of five learning modules looks at issues related to environmental change and sustainability. Topics addressed include changes in the atmosphere, soil, water, and biodiversity, and what can be done to counteract this and...
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Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Hazards and Disasters
This learning module looks at hazards and disasters. It explains the difference between them, looks at examples, and discusses future trends. Includes handouts, slideshows, activities, and videos.
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Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Drought
This learning module looks at droughts. It examines their characteristics and distribution, how they are measured, their causes, how they can be predicted, and their frequency in Africa. Includes handouts, maps, activities, and videos.
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Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Vulnerability
This learning module examines people's vulnerability to hazards and disasters. It looks at the reasons people live in hazard-prone areas, what factors affect their vulnerability, and what vulnerability looks like in different types of...
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Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Adjustments and Responses
In this learning module, students learn about disaster responses, the three types (short, medium, and long-term) and the different levels of response (local, national, and international). They examine the responses in various case...
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Geographypods: Global Interactions: Measuring Global Interactions
This learning module examines what globalization is and how it affects different regions of the world. It looks at different aspects of globalization, including global interactions through technology. Includes student tasks, videos,...
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Geographypods: Global Interactions: Economic Interactions and Flows
This learning module examines how money travels around the world between more developed and less developed nations, and the various forms it takes. Includes slideshows, student tasks, videos, maps, charts, and case studies, including one...
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Geographypods: Freshwater: Issues and Conflicts: Drainage Basins and Flooding
In this learning module, students learn how a watershed or drainage basin functions and the impact of human activities on them. Also covers groundwater, stream discharge, hydrographs, and the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Includes rich...
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Geographypods:freshwater: Issues and Conflicts: Competing Demands for Freshwater
This learning module examines conflicting demands for fresh water around the world. It looks at the water resources that are available, water scarcity, and local and international conflicts over water. Specific cases are explored,...
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Learn Chemistry: Aspirin Screen Experiment
This learning module includes videos, a simulation, teacher and student notes, background information, and worksheets. In the simulation, students navigate four levels to complete an experiment with aspirin. It is intended as a...
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Contrasting Lithic Technologies of Mesa & Folsom (2003)
Authors suggest that the availability of stone resources determined habits of cultural groups. Links offer information on Pre-Clovis/Clovis debate and Clovis/Folsom transition.
University of California
The History Project: Fdr and Courtpacking
On November 3, 1936, President Roosevelt was swept back into office by what was, at the time, the largest landslide victory, of the twentieth century. Roosevelt carried all but two states and won 523 electoral votes to Landon's 8. Such...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: The Bell Jar
This lesson discusses Sylvia Plath's works including The Bell Jar. It has students look at biographic information and commentaries about Plath. As students read the novel, they complete response logs and write essays. They debate topics...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Extra: 2009 H1 N1 Flu: The Next Pandemic? (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan focuses on viruses, particularly the Swine Flu, and allows young scholars opportunities to simulate how viruses spread and the results.
US National Archives
National Archives: From Dred Scott to the Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Dred Scott case decided that African Americans were not citizens of the United States. However, 18 years later they would have citizenship and many other rights. Students will examine the following documents to understand how and why...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Lewis and Clark
By reading this section of a chapter on "Westward Expansion," students will be able to explain the significance of the Louisiana Purchase and describe the terms of the Adams-Onis Treaty and the role played by the filibuster in American...
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Open Stax: Great Depression 1929 1932: Assessing Hoover Years on Eve of New Deal
Examines Herbert Hoover's time as President, what went well and what didn't, as well as whether perceptions about his legacy are accurate and unbiased. Looks at his foreign policy and how he dealt with civil rights.
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Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Impulse
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains that impulse is the same as a change in momentum, and what role it has in daily life. It then describes how to calculate the...
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Open Stax: Forces and Torques in Muscles and Joints
From a chapter on Statics and Torque in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter provides an in-depth discussion of forces and torque in the human body. We learn about muscular force, the importance of posture in preventing back...
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Open Stax: Debating Democracy
By the end of this section of a chapter on "Creating Republican Governments," students will be able to explain the development of state constitutions, describe the features of the Articles of Confederation, and analyze the causes and...
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Open Stax: Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains what happens during a one-dimensional elastic collision, what internal kinetic energy is and how it can be expressed, and how to...
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Open Stax: Collisions of Point Masses in Two Dimensions
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses collisions in two dimensions, what point masses are, how to calculate the conservation of momentum, what happens when two...
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Open Stax: Convection
In this section of a college textbook, the topic of convection is explored. Understand how the process of convection transfers heat. Also learn how to calculate the rate of heat transfer by convection. Section also includes problems and...