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Curated OER

Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: Earth's Hemispheres

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Labeled diagram of the Earth's hemispheres.
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Website
Other

Phmc: Paleoindian Period: 16,000 to 10,000 Years Ago

For Students 9th - 10th
A good description of the theories behind the various migration routes into the Americas, the evidence for pre-Clovis culture in the eastern part of America, and a discussion of the paleoindian sites particularly in Pennsylviania.
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Handout
University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Museums

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to dozens of art museums all over the world, by geographic region.
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Article
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Wilson Middle School: The Impact of Tradition and Cultural Diffusion

For Students 5th - 8th
Throughout history, people, products, and ideas have moved from one place to another. Read about which factors caused these movements within the Eastern Hemisphere. Study cards are included to help review the concepts covered.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Spread of World Religions

For Teachers 6th - 7th
This instructional task asks students to explain the impact that religion had on cultural diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their understanding...
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California Regional Weather Server: Jet Stream Analyses and Forecasts

For Students 9th - 10th
California Regional Weather Service provides the latest jet stream analyses and forecasts for the Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Pacific & Western North America, North America, North Atlantic, and the Southern Hemisphere.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1904

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa shortly after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. These European and independent boundaries include Algeria and the Saharan Sphere of French Influence,...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: European Possessions of Africa, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. This map shows the Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish claims, and the Turkish...
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Article
Digital History

Digital History: Overview of the Colonial Era

For Students 9th - 10th
The year 1492 marks a watershed in modern world history. Columbus's voyage of discovery inaugurated a series of developments that would have vast consequences for both the Old World and the New. It transformed the diets of both the...
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Other

National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Global Knowledge Where in the World Am I?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the division of the hemispheres, northern and southern, and eastern and western. The Equator and Prime Meridian are defined, as well as latitude and longitude. Students are given...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British Isles, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the British Isles from 1906, showing the terrain, rivers, and coastal features of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Major cities are shown, and the map includes an inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, a locator map...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British Isles, 1902

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the British Isles in 1902, showing Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. The map shows cities, towns, and ports, primary and secondary railways, canals, heads of navigation on major rivers, isotherms of averaged annual...

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