With this resource students will be introduced to a cooperative farm in Lubbock, Texas, where a group of clever cotton growers not only plant the fields and pick the crop, they own the nearby factory that turns it into denim, a fabric used to make some of the world’s most popular fashions.
In this lesson, students use a variety of multimedia resources to analyze the geographic, political, social, economic, and religious structures of the civilizations of Ancient Rome.
In this lesson, students learn about factors that cause major social changes and about prerequisites for a society’s survival.
Using an interactive that explores four ancient civilizations - The Maya, Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, and Mali/Songhai, students will evaluate and analyze what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence.
Students will learn why people hold differing beliefs about water and its importance to the Earth and it inhabitants.
In this inquiry, students examine the extent to which the Chinese and Romans had knowledge of and interacted with one another. This inquiry is about the historical antecendent to the Silk Road.
Students will participate in a role-play that simulates a common environmental dilemma as community members try to decide where to locate a new school. They are faced with the costs and alternative uses that must be given up of any particular school location.
Students will investigate why gas is so expensive or inexpensive in certain places. Students will look into alternative transportation modes that are used in the world. This lesson was developed by Jodie Hott as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will be researching factors that impact gas prices, including the production and consumption of petroleum across the globe. Students will create a poster about transportation. This lesson was developed by Jodie Hott as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students play the role of families in a small town, trying to deal with the changes in income they experience as a result of the Great Depression.
Students will read a passage and write to answer questions about the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will review trade restriction vocabulary before analyzing the impact of trade-inhibiting policies and moving on to the more important question of why the urge to erect barriers seems so resistant to the economic logic that restricting trade restricts the creation of wealth.
In this lesson, students investigate trade in West Africa's ancient civilizations. They will also explore Islam and how it spread across Africa and how this influenced the development of trade in West Africa.
Students will examine what institutional arrangements can reduce conflict and allow us to best meet changing demands for water.
Trade was critical to Old Babylonia, where many highly prized natural resources were scarce but agricultural goods were in surplus. A vibrant trading system developed, bringing manufactured goods and raw materials from as far as Turkey, and even India, 1500 miles away. Trade became integral to the economy and the culture. In this lesson, students explore the trade industry in Old Babylonia and its far-flung influence.
In this lesson, students research to find out the regions that five Native American Tribes in North America lived in, and the natural, human, and capital resources each tribe used that were geographically dependent in order to survive.
This slideshow explains renewable fuels. A link to a short, self-checking quiz is found on the site.
Students are introduced to the possibility for cooperative, win-win solutions to water disputes through water markets.
During this unit students will examine civilizations from around the globe to examine similarities and differences from various cultures. A key component of this unit will be to identify areas of innovation to understand how they led to the advancement of the society as a whole.
This unit will view different cultures from around the world in an attempt to see how they developed and to find similarities and differences in the way they developed and the way they lived.