Students study the interaction between environment and culture as they learn about three vastly different indigenous groups in a game-like activity that uses vintage photographs, traditional stories, photos of artifacts, and recipes.

The purpose of this resource is to help students understand the connection between remote sensing, computer imagery, and land cover assessment. Students translate their maps created in the beginning activity into digital code and exchange the digitized versions of their maps with students in another school.

The purpose of this resource is to familiarize students with the importance of perspective and various scales of remotely sensed data. Students create a 3-D model of an area and develop a classification system for the landforms in their model. The maps can then be used to answer certain questions about the environment.

Students learn why early humans settled around the world, in addition to reading scenarios to determine reasons for the migration of early humans.

This article highlights lessons and activities that ask students to plan expeditions to Antarctica. Students use math, science, and geography to plan their routes, clothing, and food.

This article features activity books and polar-themed children's literature for use in the elementary classroom.

This article provides an overview of the geography, characteristics, and life of the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

In this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS, a sphinx gives a boy named Oliver a week's worth of garbage and asks him to make it smaller. Oliver removes glass, cans, paper, and plastic for recycling; food scraps for composting; and clothes and toys for donating. He is then surprised to learn that the garbage was his own, and learns the importance of "less chucking, more recycling."

This resource provides informatin and data on the increase of the Muslim population in various European countries.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade Social Studies.

In this resource, students will contrast the historical views of public and private life in the target culture and its civilizations with world views. Additionally, students will learn to identify the lakes and rivers of South America.

This article provides geography lessons to teach elementary students about the polar regions. Literacy extensions are included for each lesson.

This worksheet provides a pair of satellite world maps, showing vegetation in January and July, and has a series of questions guiding exploration of the similarities and differences in the two images. The activity is from Space Update, a collection of multimedia educational resources about the Earth and Space. Summary background information, data and images supporting the activity are available on the Earth Update data site.