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Middle School Geography Resources
Location
Place
Human Environmental Interactions
Regions
General Materials - Multiple Themes
Movement
(Teaching materials that cover the concept of the movement of
people and ideas is best covered and resources more readily available
in the study of historical periods and the settlement of new
territories. Check the History Resource Pages for these materials.)
Location
Five Themes of Geography A lesson plan to enable students to apply the five
themes of geography.
Latitude, Longitude, and
Mapmaking
A lesson for grades 6 - 8, This lesson requires
students to review the concepts of latitude and
longitude and to use these concepts to create
maps of different countries on the computer.
They’ll conclude by discussing the reasons why it’s
important to understand latitude and longitude
and by creating quizzes in which other students
can locate “mystery” places that they map on the
computer.
Slam Jam Geography
Slam-Jam Geography is a program that uses the
newspaper and the NBA schedule to teach U.S.
from NIE - There is a fee geography. Like Pigskin Geography, used
successfully in classrooms, the Slam-Jam package
for materials
is geared to grades four through ten, includes a
quiz for each week, answer sheets, 34 pages of
supplemental activities and newspapers for your
classroom.
Latitude
from Rice University, exploration of how sailors
have used latitude since the 1400s to navigate the
globe
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Place
What's in a Name?
Toponomy is the science of naming places. Places
are named for specific reasons whether that
place is just down the street or halfway around
the globe. The perspectives taken when choosing
a name are often cultural and/or political.
Sometimes the history and culture of an area may
become apparent through the names of places
within that area.
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Human Environmental Interactions
Topographic Connections:
Earth'sSurface Shapes
Streams; Streams Sculpt
the Earth
Topography determines stream flow and stream
flow continuously sculpts the land. The anatomy of
a stream is greatly dependent on gradient or slope
of the land, underlying soils, and relative location
whether near the source or mouth. The anatomy
of the river greatly impacts the humanenvironment relationship. Although rivers are
quite different from each other, there are some
common physical characteristics among streams.
The interaction of streams to the Earth's
surface is communicated through topographic
maps.
Human Impacts on Major
Rivers of the World
Humans continue to explore ways of adapting
river systems to meet identified needs or desires.
These adaptations often result in long term
impacts on the environment and require humans to
modify their behavior in response to such
changes. This cause and effect relationship is
especially observable in many of the world's major
river systems.
Where, Oh Where Are
the Resources?
Because latitude influences climate, there is a
relationship between latitude and resources
associated with biomes. Common resources within
a latitudinal region promotes patterns of human
activity. Progress in technology impacts the
availability and use of resources over time. Such
changes will then affect human activity. Some
patterns of resources may be more strongly
connected to plate tectonics than to climate.
From Sea to Shining Sea:
The Highs and Lows of
Life in America
America is a country of many lands. From the
rugged coasts of Maine to the sandy beaches of
California, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
Coast, the physical landscape is as varied as the
people who inhabit it. But what factor underlies
the picturesque mountains, valleys, and plains that
we associate with our countryside? Well, it's all a
matter of your perspective...your elevational
perspective, that is. elevation, or height above
sea level, is responsible for the patterns we see in
the landscape. It is also an influential factor in
weather patterns, human settlement patterns,
industry locations, and population densities. In
this lesson, students will learn to recognize the
spatial elevation patterns of the U.S., and will gain
an appreciation for the affect elevation has on
weather and human populations.
Library of Congress
Country Studies
The Country Studies Series presents a
description and analysis of the historical setting
and the social, economic, political, and national
security systems and institutions of countries
throughout the world and examines the
interrelationships of those systems and the ways
they are shaped by cultural factors.
Built in America - Historic From the Library of Congress, this site and
Buildings and Structures collection document achievements in architecture,
engineering, and design in the United States and
its territories through a comprehensive range of
building types and engineering technologies
including examples as diverse as windmills, oneroom schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and
buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
6 Billion Human Beings
From the national Museum of Natural History in
Paris, an online presentation and student
interactive learning experience on the impact of
continued population expansion on our planet .
The Great Plains
Humans, the environment, and the Great Plains.
These lesson plans should provide you with some
good starting places for using this web site or for
teaching other lessons to your students about the
interrelationship of people and the environment
on the northern Great Plains.
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Regions
Language of the Land
The exhibit's four regional sections feature the
voices of writers deeply rooted in a particular
place. These local writers create an enduring
sense of place and of the vast differences among
America's regions. The inspiration for this
exhibition was the Library of Congress's
collection of literary maps--maps that
acknowledge the contributions of authors to a
specific state or region as well as those that
depict the geographical locations in works of
fiction or fantasy. Throughout the exhibition,
these colorful and varied maps reflect the
contributions of authors to specific states or
regions and locate their imagined people and
places.
Countries and Regional
Studies
From the Geography classroom, an extensive set
of resources
Physical Geography
From the Geography classroom, another thorough
list of all related areas of physical geography
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General Geography Materials - Multiple Themes
Expeditions - National
Geographic Lesson Plans
Database
The lesson plans on this site were written by
educators and have been tested in the classroom.
Together, they address all of the U.S. National
Geography Standards, the five geography skills,
and the main geographic perspectives. Serving a
variety of needs, the plans include a wide range of
teaching strategies. The assessment component of
each lesson focuses on the knowledge and skills
that students will use to answer a guiding
geographic question as they address real-world
issues. Many resources from this site—the Atlas,
Blue Ribbon Links, Xpedition Hall, and Activities—
are incorporated into the lessons.
Five Themes of Geography Application of the five themes of geography. The
- Lesson Plan
objectives are for the students to be able to:1)
Assign relative and absolute location , 2)
Determine the significant characteristics of
"place" , 3) Describe a region in terms of culture,
physical features, trade, industry , 4) List reasons
why migrations and trade are key events , 5)
Explain two significant human-environment
interactions. Uses this teacher's extensive
website for resource location:
http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101n.html
Daily Geography Lesson
Plans from the New York
Times
Great lesson plans in all areas of geography.
grouped for grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12.
Mission Geography
Mission Geography is curriculum support materials
that link the content, skills, and perspectives of
Geography for Life: The National Geography
Standards with the missions, research, and
science of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Modules are divided into
K-4, 5-8. and 9-12. The modules are arranged by
grade level as PDF files. MS Modules are: Module
1: Volcanoes--Local hazard, global issue? Module 2:
Mars and Earth: The quest for life Module 3:
Human footprints on Earth as seen by NASA
scientists and Module 4: Remote Sensing and GeoArchaeology
ARGUS - Association of
American Geographers
Mission Geography is curriculum support materials
that link the content, skills, and perspectives of
Geography for Life: The National Geography
Standards with the missions, research, and
science of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Modules are divided into
K-4, 5-8. and 9-12. The modules are arranged by
grade level as PDF files.
K - 4 Modules are:
Module 1: Exploring our planet from above, Module
2: Water, water, almost everywhere, Module 3:
Where on Earth do humans live? and Module 4.:
Paths
Virtual Tour and Field Trip By Continent, Country, and more
Sites
Games, Quizzes, and Trivia Hundreds of different links to games, online
quizzes, and trivia question sets here.
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