In this lesson, students are gather ideas about the land and peoples of Europe. They map and create lists of things they know about Europe and generate questions they have about the land and peoples of Europe.
Students experiment with gear motion to understand how gears work to change the amount of force, speed, or direction of motion in machines.
Students use maps to learn about ocean currents, research case studies about oil spills, and discuss the role of oceanographers.
Students read about oil production, refinement, and use and make connections to their personal energy needs in their daily lives. Students use a map to identify the scale of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Then they discuss ways to reduce the need for oil and the threat of future oil spills.
Students map the origins of a pencil, predict and map trade and transport networks, and relate what they learn to globalization.
This video series examines the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact. Geospatial information influences nearly everything. Seamless layers of satellites, surveillance, and location-based technologies create a worldwide geographic knowledge base vital to the interconnected global community. The Geospatial Revolution explores compelling human stories that explain the history, applications, related privacy issues, and impact of location-based technologies including GPS and GIS.
Students will learn about climate graphs and create their own graphs from precipitation and temperature data found online.
Students will research and map tornado frequency in the US.
In this lesson, students use maps and recent census data to analyze migration patterns across the globe.
Students play a guessing game, using questions and maps, to identify the name of a city, state, country, or major physical feature in a continent of the teacher's choosing, or the United States.
Students brainstorm examples of familiar animals and their needs. They learn that a habitat satisfies the basic needs that must be met for an animal to survive.
Students describe their experiences with beaches, compare and contrast photographs of beaches, and brainstorm how humans living near the ocean affect ocean plants and animals.
Students analyze the seal of the city of New York, use maps, and read and discuss a passage to understand how trade connected Native Americans and Dutch sailors in early New Amsterdam.
Students brainstorm how people living along coasts harm ocean animals and plants. Then they analyze specific examples and discuss ways that humans can help.
Students will describe how technological advances have impacted the field of oceanography, focusing on the use of satellites. They will also observe seasonal changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) throughout the year, identifying months with the warmest and coldest coastal SSTs. This activity is part of "Investigating Your World With My World GIS," a set of activities designed for use with My World GIS software (which can be downloaded at www.natgeoed/myworldgis) to help students learn key content and practice spatial problem solving.
This short video explains all of the resources that go into creating and using a plain cotton t-shirt.
Students use a variety of media to discuss and analyze human-related pressures upon marine ecosystems and resources.
Students learn about three examples of human impacts on marine life: migration patterns and shipping, algal blooms and water chemistry, and marine debris. Some of these impacts are due to human activity in the ocean, and some impacts on the ocean are due to human activity on land.
Students are introduced to the idea that humans have enormous impacts on marine ecosystems and resources, and explore the stakeholders involved.
Students use maps and census data to examine specific human migration patterns, both past and present.