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Globe Skills Lesson 10 Apollo 11
Students develop their globe skills. In this geography skills lesson, students use a globe and a softball to replicate distance between the earth and its moon.
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Earth Viewer
Students explore the Earth. In this space lesson, students view the " Earth and Moon Viewer" web site and complete a related worksheet.
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An Early American Culture
Students identify the locations of the Hopewell culture. In this map skills lesson, students use a globe to mark several locations of the Hopewell culture.
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Globe Skills Lesson 7 The Transcontinental Railroad
Students explore the Transcontinental Railroad. In this geography skills lesson, students use map skills in order to locate legs of the Transcontinental Railroad on globes.
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States and Capitals - Lesson 4 - U.S. Political Map
In this U.S. state capitals worksheet, learners identify the capital cities of the 50 states using the latitude and longitude coordinates provided.
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Globe Lesson 7 - Parallels and Meridians - Grade 6+
In this parallels and meridians worksheet, students read a 2-paragraph review of parallels and meridians and respond to 7 short answer questions.
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Globe Lesson 9 - Around the World - Grade 6+
In this geography skills worksheet, learners read 5-travel scenarios and use their problem solving skills to respond to 9 short answer questions.
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Lesson Design Archaeology- USGS Maps
Students research USGS maps and identify the major features. In this map skills instructional activity, students identify low and high elevations on a USGS map and practice finding latitude and longitude.
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Give Me Some Latitude
In this latitude worksheet, students use an atlas or other reference to respond to 4 multiple choice questions about the equator and the poles.
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Taming the Mighty Dragon
Students incorporate the five themes of geography to study the Yangtze river region. They analyze the possible effects of the three rivers gorge damn project on this area and role play a float the entire length of this dangerous river...
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Snow Cover By Latitude
Students create graphs comparing the amount of snow cover along selected latitudes using data sets from a NASA website. They create a spreadsheet and a bar graph on the computer, and analyze the data.
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Globe Lesson 4 - The Compass
Students study compass' and their use in navigation. In this compass lesson plan, students use a compass and a globe to answer the questions about navigation.
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Where Am I?
Students identify the latitude and longitude of various locations and calculate the distance between two given coordinate points. They read an eBook, explore the City Zen program, and complete a worksheet.