Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 colonies.
Examine the relationship between methods used to gain independence within Africa and political stability.
Explore reasons for European colonization in Africa and investigate effects of colonial-imposed borders.
Learn about the rise and fall of the French empire during the reign of Napoleon.
Investigate characteristics of major biomes and examine the impact of land-use changes as the result of human activities.
Use an aerial photograph to determine the perimeter and area of the mall; consider other shape permutations.
Find the area of a complex figure by dividing it into simpler shapes, such as rectangles, squares, triangles, and trapezoids.
Explore the ideas and evidence that helped Charles Darwin create his theory of evolution.
Explore the patterns of religion in the U.S. and world beyond the Puritan foundations found in The Scarlet Letter.
Find the circumcenter of a triangle, which is the point where the perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle intersect and it is equidistant to each vertex.
Students will use a GIS map to compare the Rocky Mountains and the Andes Mountains. They will also investigate the relationship between mountain ranges and plate boundaries.
Identify and explain different types of international cooperation since 1945.
Investigate dynamics in the earth’s crust that explain multiple phenomena.
Explore the geographic similarities and differences of the locations of the early river valley civilizations.
Use an aerial photograph to determine the distance around a track, and then calculate rate and time for each lap and the race as a whole.
Explore water pollution and its impact on ocean life in aquatic dead zones.
Site a water tower shared by two towns at the midpoint and determine the costs involved using the Pythagorean theorem.
Explore the impact of human activities on water resources.
Explore the events leading up to and beyond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
Explore the Dust Bowl region using population change, agriculture, and precipitation data.