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Exploring with Cartography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the topic of cartography. Using the internet, they research the paths and goals of early explorers. They create a PowerPoint presentation of the information they collected. They also develop a...
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ESL: Article and Preposition Practice

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this ESL article/prepositions worksheet, students complete 3 sets of fill-in-the-blank activities, choosing correct articles and prepositions as indicated.
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Pangaea Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students test evidence for the existence of Pangaea in the Earth's past. They create a current map of the Earth's continents and put them together like a puzzle. They compare this result to a a picture of the shape of Pangaea.
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Columbian Contexts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore geo-political and economic contexts for the European Renaissance journeys of exploration, including those of Columbus, create cartographic symbols, and add those symbols to a print-out of Ptolemy's map.
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Omaha's Whose Who at Prospect Hill Cemetery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore and are able to explain how to read an old street map of downtown Omaha. Students review the names of schools in OPS as well as country names in Nebraska. They find out the names of graves in Prospect Hill Cemetery....
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Rain Drops Keep Falin' On My Drainage Basin

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compile information about rainfall, lake elevations and releases of water from Tuttle Creek reservoir into maps, graphs and charts.
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Where Did That Come From?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a scavenger hunt. They locate specified items, finding the country origin. Students collect and organize the data, marking each country on a map. After researching the results, 4th graders write an analysis...
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Geography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners engage in a study of geography while studying a foreign language. They write complete sentences to identify and describe geographical features. Students also use a map in order to use the key to find geographic features that are...
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Exploring Our Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify nonprofit and profit organizations in their community. They discuss why it is important to have both types of organizations. They create a land use map of their community.
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Why Here? Why Not There?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars analyze a map and graph information on eleven countries. Using the characteristics of the countries, they determine if they should host the summer or winter Olympic games. After viewing a video, they locate the latitudes...
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Worksheet
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Weather Review

For Students 7th - 12th
In this weather worksheet, students reviews terms associated with measuring different weather phenomena plus draw examples of different types of fronts on a weather map. This worksheet has 5 true or false, 15 matching, 21 multiple...
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Celebrate You

For Teachers 1st
First graders locate place of birth on a map. They identify their birthdays and place a graphing square with their birthday written on it under the corresponding month. They compare birthdays on the graph. They read "P.B. Bear's Birthday...
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Steamers Lesson 1: Routes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the useage of steamboats in North Carolina. In groups, they research the routes of steamers and discover how they were used. They draw an illustrated map and a timeline of the routes. As a class, they...
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Underground Sleuths Discover Riches Beneath the Plains

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba on map, and use Canadian Atlas to locate regions of natural resources in Central Plains, which have vital impact upon the economy. Students then complete scavenger hunt worksheet.
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Grew to the West

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this westward growth activity, students use lyrics given to follow along with the song "Grew to the West," filling in blanks to answer simple questions throughout. Students then answer 10 additional questions about the song. Song link...
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"You Shall Do Your Best Endeavor" - Working With Primary Documents

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read and interpret primary source documents regarding historic Jamestown. In small groups, they read the primary documents, answer questions, and view online maps of Jamestown Island and Virginia.
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Pacific War Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visit the George Bush Gallery of the Pacific War where they complete a timeline of important events. Prior to the visit, they create a blank timeline from 1937 to 1945 and fill in events discovered at the museum. After the...
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Ecosystems

For Students 7th - 12th
In this ecosystems instructional activity, students define the components that make up an ecosystem. Students focus on the forests found in Ireland. This instructional activity has 30 fill in the blank and 7 short answer questions.
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Our Goal Pole

For Teachers K - 1st
Studnets discuss the meaning of exploration and investigate a map of the Louisiana Territory. They discuss Lewis and Clark's expedition and complete worksheets. They create a "goal pole" that represents their learning.
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Exploration of the Moon

For Students 9th - 12th
In this moon instructional activity, students review the different spacecraft missions that went to the moon and the information learned about the moon from these travels. This instructional activity has 11 fill in the blank and 2 short...
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Sentence Sense: Correcting Errors

For Students 6th - 7th
In this language arts learning exercise, students read 20 sentences that might contain errors. On the blank before each sentence, students write S if the sentence is correct, CS for a comma splice or FS for fused sentence (run-on).
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Sidewalk Patterns

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
Sidewalk patterns ... it's definitely not foursquare! Learners investigate patterns in sidewalk blocks, write an expression to represent the pattern, and then solve problems using the expressions.
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Worksheet
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Mexico History Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Mexico history worksheet, students examine a map of the states in Mexico and a blank timeline from 3000BC to the future. There are primary lines provided to write on, but no student directions.
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Japan: Land of the Rising Sun

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners locate Japan on a globe, name the major physical features, and describe the physical environment. They survey the differences and similarities between the life and culture of Japanese young people and American young people.