Geography Commons^™

Traditional Musical Instruments, Natasha Cooper

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Students will understand the four categories of traditional Nigerian music. Students will be able to explain and display an example of the four types of instruments in a poster. Students will be able to apply knowledge as they create their own traditional Nigerian instrument.

Understanding The Wisdom Of A People, Kathy Sundstedt

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Students will compare Yoruba and United States values.

Transcontinental Railroad, Tyler Balow

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Students will map their own routes for the transcontinental railroad. Students will read and analyze several maps in order to design their routes based on the geographical factors.

Tracking Flat Stanley, Jennifer Hardee

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Students will use Google Earth to locate the places Flat Stanley visits and record the absolute location of each place.

Trees, Rodney Wallace

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The student will be able to locate, identify, and understand the photosynthic cycle of 6 species of trees. The student will also be able to explain physical observations made of each tree.

Using Google Earth To Track Carnegie Steel From U.S. History, Tim Curnutte

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Students will understand that Carnegie Steel owned all facets of steel production and transportation, effectively cutting out the middle men, thus maximizing corporate profits.

Using The Five Themes To Understand The Settlement Of The West, Ray Carlson

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Students will understand how settlers from the East modify the environment to meet their needs as they settled the West. Students will understand the humans adapt in response to their environment as the settled the West. Students will be able to identify characteristics that distinguish historic time periods. Students will have an introductory understanding of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Oregon Trail, the Gold Rush, and the Homestead Act of 1862.

West Creek Development Osae, Jeff Firsching

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Students will work cooperatively to speculate on the changes humans have made to transform farm fields into a housing development and what the consequences of those changes could be.

Well Bust My Buttons!, Rachel Hansen

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Students will understand and use the concepts of site and situation to evaluate the distribution of both original and current button factories in Muscatine.

Was China's One Child Policy A Good Idea?, Brittany Roberts

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Students will examine both sides of the one-child policy debate and examine consequences of the law.

What Makes A Location Unique?, Bob Gilbertson

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Students will:

• Analyze images from their country.

• Complete five themes of geography web cluster about their image.

• Review the information that classmates have written about a different image.

• Work collaboratively as a class to complete the large group web cluster.

• Complete a compare and contrast graphic organizer about Nepal and Egypt.

What Makes A Healthy (Or Unhealthy) Nation?, Jesse Dowell

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Identify and investigate the cultural, economic, and political factors that contribute to a nation’s health and well-being.

Where Does It Come From?, Barry Eberhard

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Students will predict where they think a majority of their clothing is produced, and then check each others labels to see if they are correct. Students will identify their favorite outfit and where each item of clothing was manufactured. Students will explore the places their clothing originates from via Google Earth and gapmider.com.

Where In The World Are You?, Carri Sawyer

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Students will be able to locate a destination given the latitude and longitude.

What's In A Name?: "Oruko Lonro Ni" Which Means "Names Affect Behavior", Anne Hoeper

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Students will be aware that Yoruba people believe the name a child bears can influence his/her behavior; therefore, the names given to a child in Nigeria are chosen for their meaning.

Where Do Zebras Live?, Dawn Wiley

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Students will be able to identify Africa on a map. Students will recreate a design in the feel of Kenya fabric design. Students will draw a zebra in its environment.

Where Is Your Shirt Made?, Sam Hellberg

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To write a five paragraph research paper regarding garment factories throughout the world.

Where Does Our Stuff Come From?, Brittany Lassen

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Students will understand the importance of globalization by seeing how much of our everyday items come from other countries. Students will further be able to understand the huge quantities of items that come from other countries and will work on analyzing how this affects the U.S.’s balance of trade.

Who's Developed?, Brittany Lassen

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Students will understand what makes a country developed or not developed and may have some of their misconceptions addressed regarding how developed/underdeveloped certain countries are.

Where In The World Could I Count How Many Stars Are In The Sky?, Dawn Pohlman

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The students will be using a picture book to explore the differences that exist in communities within the same region. This will then allow them to work closely with the definition of rural and urban communities and identify which type of community they live in.

World Food Programme/Country Comparison, Julia Swallow

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The student will use data from websites given to study hunger crisis locations, country statistics, and political conditions in needy regions. Students will organize and compare data, using results for debate.

Why Immigrate?, Erin Nennig

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Students will learn the reasons behind immigration. Students will identify any struggles or issues with immigration. Students will analyze how immigrants affect Americans.

Why Should I Care About Geography?, Amy Bisenuis

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Students will participate in a geography lesson in which they will find the countries on a map in which 3 articles of their clothing came from. Then, students will explore Google Earth’s website and type the name of their country (and then the largest city of that country) in and take a virtual field-trip to see what that country looks like. Finally, students will choose one of those countries to make a T-Chart comparing and contrasting life there to life in their town in the USA.

World Population And Food Distribution, Matt Hoodjer

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Students will be able to identify what parts of the world are and are not heavily populated. Students will be able to identify the regions of the world with a scarce food supply. Students will be able to propose strategies to correct the imbalance of the world food distribution.

An Immigration Debate, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will understand that the needs of a nation may conflict with the needs of an individual or group.

Regions Of Chile Using The Five Themes Of Geography, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will define and explain the importance of these key geographic terms: climate, vegetation, population density. Students will describe the physical characteristics of four regions of Chile: Big North, Little North, Central, and South. Students will explain how physical features affect the people in an area. Students will identify ways in which people of Chile have adapted to life in each of the four regions. Students will analyze the relationship of physical features on trade in the U.S. and Minnesota. Students will become familiar with the characteristics of the regions of Chile.

Bangladesh Through The Alphabet, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will understand the difficulties of Bangladesh and possible solutions to those difficulties.

I'Ll Trade You Dollars For Taka, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will convert currency from USD (United States Dollars) to BDT (Bangladesh Taka) and vice versa. Students will familiarize themselves with common prices in BDT and make comparisons costs of similar items in USD.

Migration Streams, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will be able to identify reasons migrants leave a country and why they chose to go to certain countries and why they move within a country. Students will be able to make migration stream maps from data. Students will understand and compare migration streams of Chile and the U.S. Students will research local immigration.

Trade In A Long Country, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa

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Students will identify ways in which people of Chile have adapted to life in each of the four regions. Students will analyze the relationship of physical features on trade in the U.S. and Iowa/Minnesota.