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A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
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COLD SEA WATERS

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine how old sea waters affected the local and state area during the summer of 1998. Studying a detailed web-site helps students examine sea temperatures.
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Asian Civilizations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete computer based research to complete a travel brochure that highlights an Asian civilization.
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Creation and Interpretation of Voter Participation Graph

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research information about voter participation in the United States based on age. They develop generalizations about voting patterns in the U.S and use Microsoft Excel to analyze the information.
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Discovering Your Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students focus on the origins of the families that make up their community by exploring their family's origins through themselves, parents, and grandparents. Students create a map marked with family origins for the class.
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"A Costly Prosperity", South Carolina during World War II

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders study the history of South Carolina during World War II.  In this American History instructional activity, 11th graders analyze the economic growth of this state through primary sources.  Students interpret many...
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Where Oh Where on the Playground, Do I Love To Be?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.
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Where In the World Are We?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read postcards and find their locations on maps. They use the pictures and text on the postcards to write about imaginary vacations. They compute the mileage and compare it to TripMaker data.
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Natural Resources

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders begin the lesson by identifying the different types of natural resources. As a class, they discuss how environments are destructed and how the loss of one natural resource can affect the economy. Using a map, they label the...
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Inference Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice assessing graphics to infer and identify an author's implicit and explicit meaning in a piece of text. They evaluate the effectiveness of information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, cutaways and through...
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Lesson Six: Nonfiction Text Elements (Part One)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine nonfiction text elements in preparation for writing a nonfiction book about Lewis and Clark. In this social studies/language arts instructional activity, students discuss the term research and complete a cluster map....
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What is the Population Distribution of Cartoon Characters Living On the Pages of Your Newspaper?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read various cartoons in their local newspaper and calculate the population demographics, spatial distribution and grouping of the characters. Using this information, they create a population distribution map and share them with...
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Wet Water, Dry Land

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars observe and examine relationship between landforms and bodies of water, recognizing differences between them. Students then define island, peninsula, isthmus, archipelago, lake, bay, straight, system of lakes, and identify...
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Using "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" to Teach Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss cause and effect relationships and the chain reaction involved before listening to the story "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears". Students create flow charts to show the chain reactions of causes and effects in the...
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Water Usage and Conservation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils investigate water usage at school and at home. They use graphs and tables to evaluate water usage. Students describe possible water conservation measures. They use graphs and tables to relate data as part of a written report.
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Comparison of Snow Cover on Different Continents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the Live Access Server (LAS) to form maps and a numerical text file of snow cover for each continent on a particular date. They analyze the data for each map and corresponding text file to determine an estimate of snow cover...
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students map data on employment in wood products manufacturing in Oregon counties. In this Oregon forest lesson, students discover the percentage of people employed in the forest manufacturing industry. Students create a box and whisker...
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The Geographic Doctor Seuss

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners define the term region using semantic mapping, listen to the Dr. Seuss story Yertle the Turtle, and discuss the conflict over borders in the story. They draw a map divided into regions.
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Wetlands: Pave or Save?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discuss the characteristics of wetlands and how to make them more productive. Using a map, they locate the major wetlands in the United States and color them using a key. They read an article and in groups answer discussion...
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Louisiana Purchase

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use maps to locate and describe the area purchased by the Louisiana Purchase. In groups, they write a letter to Thomas Jefferson in which they evaluate the topography, climate and geography of the land. They determine the land's...
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Most Wanted Villians

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the characteristics of various characters in fairytales. As a class, they review the story details and create a concept map using a software program. They create their own wanted poster of the villians in the fairytale to...
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Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Student use radiosonde data from a weather balloon launch to distinguish the characteristics of the lower atmosphere. They learn the layers of the atmosphere. They graph real atmospheric data.
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Trouble in the Troposphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students Use data sets from MY NASA DATA to produce graphs comparing monthly and yearly ozone averages of several U.S. cities. They analyze and evaluate the data and predict trends based on the data. In addition, they discuss and...
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Simple machines

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students list and describe the six simple machines. They create a Thinking Map and outline using Kidspiration and create a paper on the importance of simple machines using Microsoft Word.

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