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Draw it Out is a teaching strategy that is used for vocabulary. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to identify vocabulary words by providing a synonym and creating a picture that relates to that vocabulary word.

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Jim Franke, a professor at Kansas State University, provided this PowerPoint presentation about the domestic politics of the Cold War. This presentation is useful because it offers multiple perspectives on the political ideas of the Cold War.

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Lew Whitson is a social studies teacher who has provided this website full of resources for civics and government. This website is useful because it provides many resources, including lesson plans, that can be used in a classroom about Political Science.

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Dan Kuester, a professor at Kansas State University, created this economic concept checklist to outline the main ideas of economics. This checklist is useful because it provides teachers with the main ideas of economics to teach in an economics class.

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A Close Read is a teaching strategy that is used for analyzing articles. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to fully understand what they are reading by writing ideas in the margins, circling unfamiliar words and providing synonyms, and highlighting the main ideas.

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Lauren Ritterbush, a professor at Kansas State University, presented this PowerPoint about the concept of archaeology. This presentation is useful because it discusses how archaeology is a sub-discipline of anthropology.

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American Democracy is a book, written by Justin DePlato and Kyle Hodges, that examines the theories used by the founders in creating the American democratic system. This book is useful because it provides primary sources that allows readers to visualize democracy in play.

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Political Theory and the Modern State is a book, written by David Held, that offers insights on issues and controversies through political thought and analysis. This book is useful because it includes discussions on the modern state, problems of power, democracy, citizenship, and social movements.

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World Government is a book, written by Peter Taylor, that gives a well-rounded view of government throughout the world. This book is useful because it discusses power within the states, and power between the states.

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#6 The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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#6 The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution is a book, written by Francis Fukuyama, that offers an in depth look at the evolution of governments in societies throughout the world. This book is useful because it shares ideas of political thought through time.

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Common Sense is a pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. This pamphlet is useful because it shows the beginning of the United States' government.

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website offers an in-depth article with views of philosophy regarding government. The website is useful because it uses philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes, to illustrate the early ideas and need for governments.

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World Government (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

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Third, contemporary liberal theorists argue mainly that world government, in the form of a global leviathan with supreme legislative, executive, adjudicative and enforcement powers, is largely unnecessary to solve problems such as war, global poverty, and environmental catastrophe. World government so conceived is neither necessary nor sufficient to achieve the aims of a liberal agenda.

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The Scholastic website provides a wonderful article over the United States government. This article discusses the purpose of government, how it is organized, who works for the government, the different branches, and the role of citizens. This website is useful in helping one understanding the United States government.

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Featured Teaching Kits

Teacher-approved stories, resources, and worksheets for teaching about the United States Constitution in your classroom, courtesy of Junior Scholastic, the middle school Social Studies classroom magazine

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The Constitution | Free Middle School Teaching Resources

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Featured Teaching Kits Teacher-approved stories, resources, and worksheets for teaching about the United States Constitution in your classroom, courtesy of Junior Scholastic, the middle school Social Studies classroom magazine

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The Constitutional Rights Foundation website offers an article on war and international law. It discusses the United States' role and function of foreign policy, and how it has changed over time. This website is useful because it offers a view on the United States' foreign policy.

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Foreign Policy - Constitutional Rights Foundation

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A central function of the U.S. government is to conduct relations with the almost 200 other nations in the world. A nation is a sovereign country, and as such, possesses the highest authority over its territories.

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Michael Flynn, a professor at Kansas State University, created this PowerPoint presentation about U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. This presentation is useful because it offers a foreign policy view of the United States' history.

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Andrew Orr, a professor at Kansas State University, offered a PowerPoint presentation over the foreign perspectives of the Cold War. This presentation is useful because it views how the Cold War effected different areas of the world.

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Lew Whitson, a social studies teacher, provided this website full of resources for United States history. This website is useful because it provides resources include primary sources and objectives that can help teach U.S. history.

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A social studies teacher, Lew Whitson, created this website to provide resources to teachers about economics. This website is useful because it provides teachers with standards, assessments, and a PowerPoint presentation to teach economics.

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Project Archaeology is an organization dedicated to archaeology education. This website is useful because it provides resources on how to teach historical inquiry and cultural understanding.

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Project Archaeology | Discover the past ~ Shape the future

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Project Archaeology uses archaeological inquiry to foster understanding of past and present cultures; social studies and science education; and citizenship education to help preserve our archaeological legacy.

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"What is Anthropology" is a website that introduces the reader to the four fields of anthropology. This website is useful because it provides definitions, videos, and examples of the four different types of anthropology.

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The Boston University website offers a page on what anthropology is, the different types of anthropology, and the different fields of work in anthropology. This website is useful because it offers an introduction to the subject of anthropology.

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The Royal Anthropology Institute provides a website all about anthropology, including definitions, career paths, studies, and experiences. This website is useful because it provides all different types of resources on anthropology and how to teach it.

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The Discover Anthropology website is operated by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education Outreach Programme. The website aims to encourage a wider appreciation and understanding of anthropology by functioning as a hub for communication, gathering information, and accessing events, activities…

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On the Origin of Species is a book, written by Charles Darwin, that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It introduces the idea that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. This book is useful because it discusses the main ideas of biological anthropology.

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YouTube offers a video that introduces the viewer an introduction to anthropology. It discusses some of the most influential people in the field of anthropology. This video is useful because it allows the viewer to understand the history of anthropology.

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The Gift is a book, written by Marcel Mauss, that was the foundation of social theories of gift exchange and reciprocity. It discusses that exchange of objects between groups builds relationships between humans. This book is useful because it observes one of the aspects of cultural anthropology.

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This is a website that explores multiple civilizations that were located in the River Valley. This website is useful because it explores the geography, economy, and social structures of these civilizations in an archaeological view.

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Indus River Civilization. The Indus River Valley Civilization was a civilization that started about 2500 BC along the South-western part of the Indus River. Its biggest city was Mohenjo-Daro, in present day Pakistan, but had cities and settlements all along the river.

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This website offers resources for students to learn about the Indus Valley civilization. This website is useful because it provides a story, a challenge, and an explore page for students to learn about archaeology.

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School sessions and resources for ages 7–11 (KS2).

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The Wilson Center provides a digital archive with collections of resources. This website provides historical documents related to many specific topics, regions, or events that are useful in teaching world history.

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History and Public Policy Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027 Collection Policy | Questions? Email Laura Deal, Digital Projects Librarian

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The Office of the Historian provides a website that offers a collection of documents. This website is useful because it includes historical records of U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic activity that are useful in teaching world history.

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The National Security Affairs offers this book on the foreign relations of the United States. It is a collection of official documents on U.S. foreign policy that have been declassified. This book is useful because it provides primary sources to teach about foreign relations.

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This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. This is a nearly complete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed. If your library is interested in donating material for this project, please contact the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.

Special thanks are owed to the University of Chicago Libraries for contributing FRUS volumes for digitization. Thanks also to these other contributing libraries: Southwestern University (Los Angeles) Library, the University of Connecticut's Homer Babbidge Library, Georgia Southwestern State University's James Earl Carter Library, University of Indiana-Bloomington Libraries, Brigham Young University's Howard W. Hunter Law Library, Columbia University Libraries, Des Moines Public Library, Jefferson County (Colorado) Public Library, Michigan State University Libraries, Ouachita Baptist University's Riley-Hickingbotham Library, University of Michigan-Flint's Thompson Library, University of Minnesota, University of Mississippi's J. D. Williams Library, University of South Alabama's University Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The objective of the project is to drive down the cost of digitization and scale up production of valuable information resources in digital format. It is hoped that the development of low-cost digitization methods will inspire further collaboration among research libraries to enlarge the public domain of knowledge accessible via the Internet.

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.

FRUS begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. There are two cumulative indexes covering 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. The organization of FRUS is generally chronological, but the dates of the volumes do not necessarily reflect the dates of documentary history. For example, the volumes for 1900-1918 do not include the records dealing with World War I or the Russian Revolution. Each volume has a subject and author index. There is also typically a table of sources and abbreviations at the beginning of each volume.

Many volumes published since 1945 are available online on the State Department website that is maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago. A full description of Foreign Relations of the United States, including a listing of the online FRUS volumes, is available from the Office of the Historian website.

Questions or comments about the site should be directed to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, University of Wisconsin Libraries.

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Digital History is a website that offers resources about American history ranging from the first Americans to the current century. This website is useful because it includes primary sources, a timeline, and media to help teach U.S. history.

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The Economics of the Office is a website that provides entertaining, yet educational videos, from The Office. This website is useful because it provides students with engaging material that illustrate the concepts of economics.

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Video clips from the television show the office that illustrate economics concepts.

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Our Country's Presidents is a book, written by Ann Bausum, that provides information on America's presidents. This book is useful because it includes timelines and descriptions of crucial events during the presidents' terms.

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The Untold History of the United States is a book, written by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, that unearths a history of the United States that has recently been discovered through archives and newly declassified material. This book is useful because it includes photographs and facts from the nineteenth century to the Obama presidency.

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What is an American? This website helps the reader answer that question by providing stories of American history from pre-Columbian era to the millennium. This website is useful because it teaches American history by providing interactive stories.

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The word history comes from the Greek word historía which means "to learn or know by inquiry." In the pieces that follow, we encourage you to probe, dispute, dig deeper - inquire. History is not static. It's fluid. It changes and grows and becomes richer and more complex when any individual interacts with it.

Knowledge of history is empowering. An event is but the furthest ripple of an ever-expanding wave that may have started eddying outward hundreds of years ago. One who "sees" history is able to harness the power of that wave's entire journey.

Finally, the best history has at its foundation a story. A printer challenges a King and so is laid the foundation of the first amendment; a New Jersey miner finds gold in California and sets off a torrent of movement westward; a woman going home from work does not relinquish her seat and a Civil Rights movement explodes.

These stories all help to ask the question, "What is an American?" You'll help to answer that question.

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The word history comes from the Greek word historía which means "to learn or know by inquiry." In the pieces that follow, we encourage you to probe, dispute, dig deeper - inquire. History is not static. It's fluid. It changes and grows and becomes richer and more complex when any individual interacts with it.

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Teaching American History is a website that provides many resources for teachers to teach American history. This website is useful because it provides resources including lesson plans, multimedia, historical documents, and webinars to help teach American history.

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Teaching American History is a free resource that brings together primary documents, continuing education, and community for American history teachers.

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Teaching History is a website that provides teachers with resources and materials to teach U.S. history. This website is useful because the resources include a digital classroom and lesson plans that can help teach United States history.

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Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible.

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Smithsonian's History Explorer is a website that provides many types of resources for teachers and students. This website is useful because it provides resources including lessons and activities, interactives and media, museum artifacts, and books to engage students in U.S. history.

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With and without the vote and throughout American history, young people have been a force to be reckoned with as they take action and stand in support of the issues that matter most.

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Annenberg Learners provides a website full of resources and professional development. This website is useful because it provides resources such as lesson plans and interactive learning activities to engage students in American History.

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum

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The History of the Ancient World is a book, written by Susan Wise Bauer, that takes the reader on a journey through ancient history. The characters are part of historical events. This book would be a useful bridge text in a world history class.

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History World provides users with interactive timelines regarding world history, areas, and themes. This website is useful because it allows users to visualize where an event occurs on a timeline in regards to other events.

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HistoryWorld contains narrative world history and interactive world history timelines.

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This website provides users with resources for students and teachers. These resources include games, unit plans, and lesson plans. This website is useful because it helps teachers plan for teaching world history and gives students an engaging activity.

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World History Lesson Plans, Games, Powerpoints, Classroom Activities K-12

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Early Humans Archaeology Mesopotamia/Sumer Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Ancient India Ancient China Mongols Celts Vikings Mayas Incas Aztecs Medieval Europe Ancient African Kingdoms Native Americans in Olden Times

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The History of the World is a book, written by J.M. Roberts and O.A. Westad, that offers readers information on major events, developments, and personalities. This book is useful because it offers information that could help teach world history.

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Time maps is an interactive map that allows the user to learn information about places through history. This website is useful for students to see where events are happening and read about those events.

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Omni Atlas is an interactive atlas of world history. This website is useful because shares information regarding regions and historical events.

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Omniatlas: Interactive Atlas of World History

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Interactive step-by-step historical atlas explaining world events. Includes free maps, timelines, articles, for reference, self-education, and teacher resources.

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Freakonomics is a book, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, that explores the economic side of the modern day world. This book is useful because it is an engaging resource for teachers to pull economic information from.

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The Wealth of Nations is a book, written by Adam Smith, that shares economic thought on the first scientific argument for the principles of the economy. This book is useful because it shows where the study of economics originally came from.

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John Maynard Keynes is a book, written by Hyman P. Minsky, that explores the ideas of the economic icon, John Maynard Keynes, and the concept of Keynesian economics. This book is useful because it provides a background on the economic concept of Keynesian.

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The Foundation for Teaching Economics created this website to help teachers be more effective educators in economics. This website is useful because it provides teachers with unit plans, lesson plans, readings, and media.

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FTE provides a variety of resources for educators, including curriculum outlines and accompanying lesson plans, Hot Topic inquiries into current issues, and an Economic Barometer for easy access to the U.S. federal government's latest quarterly economic data. All FTE curriculum resources may be viewed online or downloaded. Lessons include background information, source citations (linked when possible), readings, and handouts. Activities include teacher guides, materials masters, and video demonstrations. Copyright permission is given for educational use of all FTE resources. Download files are editable and the FTE encourages teachers to modify and adapt the materials as appropriate to their specific goals and classrooms.

All FTE lessons are correlated to the National Voluntary Content Standards in economics, the Common Core, and when possible, to the individual state standards. Our searchable interface facilitates alignment of lesson content and activities for standards- and mastery-based instruction.

The Professional Teacher Association (PTA) is open to all alumni of FTE teacher programs, both online and face-to-face. There is no charge for registration or membership. Benefits include a newsletter, advance notice of upcoming courses and programs, and eligibility to apply for annual PTA conferences.

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Teacher Resources - Foundation For Teaching Economics

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FTE provides a variety of resources for educators, including curriculum outlines and accompanying lesson plans, Hot Topic inquiries into current issues, and an Economic Barometer for easy access to the U.S. federal government's latest quarterly economic data. All FTE curriculum resources may be viewed online or downloaded.

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The Social Studies Research and Practice group offers teachers this article on teaching high school economics. This article is useful because it gives tips on how to teach economics.

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Econedlink provides this website full of economic videos, activities, and games. This website is useful because it gives students an engaging tool for learning about economics.

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EconEdLink - Free economics and personal finance resources for K-12

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EconEdLink offers hundreds of free personal finance and economics lesson plans, videos, activities, tools, and more for K-12 teachers and their students.

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The Council for Teaching Economic Education created this website as a tool for high schoolers learning economics. It is full of interactive economic games for high school students. This website is useful because it allows students to learn economics hands on.

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Interactive Activities - Council for Economic Education

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Browser Support: The Council for Economic Education's interactive activities work best in modern versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Internet Explorer is not fully supported in all activities yet.

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John Harrington and Thomas Larsen, professors at Kansas State University, created this PowerPoint presentation over geography. This presentation is useful because it includes resources and information to help teachers teach geography.

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Story Map Tour is a website that provides an interactive map of the United States. This website is useful because it is an engaging visual activity for students to use to discover where in the United States all of the presidents were born.

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This story map was created with the Story Map Tour application in ArcGIS Online.

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This website is full of interactive games about all aspects of world geography. This website is useful because it is an interactive activity for students to use to learn information about geography from around the world.

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World Geography Games Online - Let's play and learn Geography!

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Brain-engaging geography map games: learn countries of the world, capitals, flags, US States, continents, oceans, mountains, rivers, islands and much more.

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Mapzone is a website full of interactive learning activities about all aspects of geography. This website is useful because it provides engaging activities, videos, and information for students to learn more about geography.

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You'll find games, trivia quizzes and help with map skills, plus you can delve into some fascinating topics about the world around you and find out how geography is evident in our day-to-day lives.

Mapzone brings geography and mapping to life and is a great resource to use as a teacher.

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Variety of games, and homework help for children about mapping and geography.

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National Geographic created this website to provide teaching resources for geography classrooms. This website is useful because it provides teachers with activities, lesson plans, and unit plans.

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National Geographic Society is celebrating Earth and, this month only, you can make TWICE the impact. Donate to National Geographic Society and help us make remarkable discoveries about the ocean's intelligent marine life. The planet and our Explorers are counting on you.

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The National Geographic Society is a global non-profit organization committed to exploring, illuminating, and protecting the wonder of our world.

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Teacher Vision is a website that provides teacher resources for geography classrooms. This website is useful because it provides teachers with printables, lesson plans, quizzes, activities, and many more resources that can be used to teach geography.

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Foster global awareness in your class with U.S. and world geography printables, lessons and references. Teach students about oceans and landforms with science activities and mapping resources. There are plenty of crossword puzzles and quizzes to test your students' knowledge of the earth's surface. Map and geography skills may be used in many subject areas including language arts, math, and history. These social studies resources can enhance any curriculum for kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Printables for Grades K-5

Build your students map reading and identification skills with these various activities that cover maps of the entire world. These visual representations of parts of the world will help your students discover without having to leave the classroom! These resources are geared toward grades K-5.

Printables for Grades 6-8

Go deeper with your study with these printable maps of different parts of the world. Whether you are completing a comprehensive study of the United States or another country, or you just want to focus on a particular subsection, these worksheets will help students in the moment during your lessons as well as a resource to study for their quizzes as well.

Printables for Grades 9-12

Use these resources for a general study of different countries or modify them to target a specific historical period or political movement that you want to focus on with your students. These maps can be a useful resource or study guide as students move toward learning more higher order concepts and retaining more historical information throughout the upper grades.

Lesson Plans

Use these comprehensive lesson plans to fully develop an individual, geographical concepts, or historical periods of time that you want to focus on with your students. Within each lesson, you will be guided on how to complete the lesson with students as well as provided different questions, discussions, or activities to help students deeply understand the topic under study.

Printable Geography Quizzes

Tired of making your own geography quizzes? Who says you have to? Review the different quizzes in this section to use as the perfect complement to your lessons and activities. You can use these quizzes as is or can modify them to better meet your teaching style or the needs of your classroom.

Maps and Globes Resources

Use these printable map outlines or review the Practicing Map Skills activity to help your students learn about the different geographic features of various places around the world. These maps can be used again and again and are great resources to help student keep track of the constantly changing world.

Geography Games & Puzzles

Need an interactive game to help reinforce your students' understanding of a geographical unit? This section is the one for you. Whether you want to teach students initial map skills by creating your own map of your classroom, or help them remember the different features that can be used when viewing a map, these printable games will make learning fun for your students.

Technology Resources for Geography

Build your students inquiry, research, and discussion skills with these geographical technology resources. In this section, students will be responsible for investigating the world's wonders and reporting on their findings.

U.S. Geography Resources

Use these printable maps to teach a comprehensive study of the geographical makeup of the United States. Students can keep these maps as study tools when looking back on a full year's study of the U.S. or just as a quick reference during a topic or concept.

World Geography Resources

Use these printable maps to teach a comprehensive study of the geographical makeup of the the world. Students can keep these maps as study tools when looking back on a full year's study of the world. or just as a quick reference during a topic or concept.

Political Geography Resources

Help your students keep track of all the political affiliations during different historical periods with these resources. In this section, you can use printable maps, interactive books and slideshows, or just reinforce their understanding of geographical topic with various quizzes.

References

Looking to build your geographical resource library? This section can provide you a wealth of resources ranging from lesson plans, various charts and maps, or just some fun information or facts on the different parts of the world.

Geography Skill Builders

Uses these Skill Builder guides to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts about geography. Each guide divides into different activities according to your individual classrooms grade level so it can be a resource that you use for any classroom. It also is completed weekly so this be a great compliment to your daily lessons, review sessions, or even as homework activities for your students.

Geography Resources for History Class

Use these resources to help students learn about the geography from different historical periods or important events. In this section, you have access to different lesson plans, printable maps, interactive activities, and classroom guides for discussions. These resources can be kept as is or can be modified to be better for your individual teaching style or classroom needs.

Earth Science & Geography Connected

Planning a cross-curricular study with your fellow teachers? Or just trying to help students understand how geography is formed? This section will provide you for a little bit of both! In this section, you have access to different comprehension resources that outline the causes and effects of natural disasters and how that has developed the geography from the past to today.

Math & Geography Connected

Planning a cross-curricular study with the other teachers in various content areas? Or just trying to help students understand map reading and geography skills? This section will help you prepare for any objective or goal you have for your students. Use the different printable maps, lesson plans, or graphic organizers to build students comprehension and map-reading skills by focusing on topics such as time zones and latitude and longitude.

Language Arts & Geography Connected

Build your students reading comprehension and map reading skills with these different activities. In this section, students connect their understanding of different geographic features with their own previous knowledge and experiences. Each resource is a perfect complement to any part of your lesson, as a resource for students to use to remember key concepts, or as supplemental work to assess student understanding.

Art Activities for Geography

Use these activities to add an artistic spin to learning geography. Students can create their own geographical tools, create cultural artifacts of individuals from a different country, or design different geographic maps of countries around the world. These activities can be used as is or modified to better suit the needs of students in your classroom.

Earth Day Activities

Build your students understanding of this important day with different resources that highlights the importance of taking care of our Earth. In this section, students can review the different economic resources that are pivotal to human survival, the different ways we take care of resources, and much more!

Wildlife Week Resources

Use these literature/teacher guides to review with students the different types of wildlife that live in various places around the world. These guides can compliment any content area and will help your students improve their reading comprehension and geography skills. Use them as is or adapt them to best fit your classroom.

Columbus Day Activities

Use these lessons or activities in this section to help students learn about Christopher Columbus's voyage and exploration of America. These activities can be kept as is or modified to fit your individual teaching style or the needs of your students.

Native American Resources

Help students understand that studying geography means studying the individuals that live in those different regions as well. By reviewing the lives and culture of Native Americans, students can connect their geographical skills to deeper higher order thinking ones

Voyages & Travels Resources

Use these different resources with your students to discuss the concepts of voyages and traveling. In this section are different visual maps, lesson plans, reading comprehension activities, and much more! These activities can be used in their current form or modified to better serve the needs of your classroom.

Ocean Resources

Need some inspiration for teaching your students about the Earth's oceans? Well look no further! Whether it's full comprehensive lesson plans, printable map activities, game worksheets, or resource guides for geographical features, this is the section for you. These activities are great as they are or can be adapted to the characteristics of your classroom.

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Geography Printables, Lessons, & Quizzes for Teachers (K-12) - TeacherVision

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Foster global awareness in your class with U.S. and world geography printables, lessons and references. Teach students about oceans and landforms with science activities and mapping resources. There are plenty of crossword puzzles and quizzes to test your students' knowledge of the earth's surface.

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Maps is a visual book with information about geography, written by Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski. This book is useful because it provides the reader with information on physical features, culture, regions, and animals.

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#8 National Geographic Atlas of the World

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#8 National Geographic Atlas of the World

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The National Geographic Atlas of the World is a book that has cartographical images, information on physical geography, and cultural knowledge. This book is useful because it provides the reader with knowledge on geography from around the world.

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Geography Education created this website to provide geography teachers with resources. This website is useful because it gives teachers access to articles, courses, and presentations to help teach geography.

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A few years ago, I was delighted to see an geographer's rendition of what a satellite image of California would have looked if such a thing existed in the 1800s (figure 1). Back then the southern San Joaquin Valley was swampy wetland surrounding Lake Tulare, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. In the late 1800s, canals and dams were created to divert water from the rivers that fed into the lake to go supporting agriculture and the metropolitan areas of California. As the very shallow lake dried up, the lakebed was converted into was converted to agricultural land, mainly under cotton cultivation.

California and much of the wast have had far more precipitation than expected on the heels of years of drought. The existing canals and reservoirs in the watershed are overflowing and the dry lake bed with fields is getting flooded again; water doesn't care about what is there now, it just flows downhill. Enter the 2023 version of Tulare Lake flooding farmland, roads, railways, towns, and other expensive infrastructure.

While it won't return to its historic levels with one year's snowpack, it's likely that 100,000 acres (150 sq. miles) of farmland will be under water for two years, possibly more. This is a relatively lightly populated region, but some cities like Corcoran, CA (22,000 people) are on the edge of the old lake bed and might need to be partially evacuated as levees have failed to stem the tide.

Agricultural companies and local towns are both trying to protect their lands from flooding to protect their infrastructure, equipment, homes, and people. At times, these goals are at odds with one another, and armed guards are protecting levees and hydrologic projects. Below are two videos that are good introductions to the topic of the reemergence of Lake Tulare.

Questions to Ponder: How has agriculture and urbanization modified your state's geography? What are the positive impacts of these modifications? What are potential negative consequences of these modifications?

TAGS: environmental modification, California, environment.

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Supporting geography educators everywhere with current digital resources.

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Mr. Nussbaum created this website to provide teachers and students resources to promote geographical learning. This website is useful because it provides interactive maps, activities, and games for students and videos, research, and printables for teachers.

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2023 MrNussbaum.com is a copyright of the Nussbaum Education Network,LLC.

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Over 2,000 original geography games, interactive maps, quizzes, and printables for grades K-8.

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A 4-2-1 Discussion is a teaching strategy that is used for identifying the big idea of a text. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to move, discuss, and collaborate by sharing their ideas of the main ideas and narrowing them down.

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A Music and Lyric Analysis is a teaching strategy that is used for analyzing music. This teaching strategy is useful because students get to listen to music and understand the meaning of the song from a historical standpoint.

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A Photograph Analysis is a teaching strategy that is used for analyzing photographs. This teaching strategy is useful because students get to view historical photographs and understand what is happening at that time.

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Photograph Analysis Form Revised 13.docx

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Story Mapping is a teaching strategy that is used for understanding a historical event. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to fully understand the context of historical events by mapping out the story.

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A Somebody Wanted But So chart is a teaching strategy that is used for understanding historical events in a text. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to read a text and determine who, what they wanted, but something happened, so this happened instead.

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A Writing Organizer is a teaching strategy that is used to organize students' writing. This teaching strategy is useful because it allows students to organizer their writing into topics, subtopics, and supporting details.

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Cornel Notes are a teaching strategy that are used in organizing students' notes. This teaching strategy is useful because students will write their notes, summarize their notes, and make a conclusion about their notes.

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My Social Studies Textbook Page is a teaching strategy that is used to help students organize what information is found in their textbook. This teaching strategy is useful because students will write down a summary, vocabulary, historical figures, historical events, geography, economy, and achievements that are found on pages of their social studies textbook.