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Geography, Map Projection PowerPoint
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Teaching map projections can be challenging! This PowerPoint presentation is an easy way to give student the foundation they need to understand what map projections are and how each has its own level of accuracies and distortions based on size and shape of land masses and measurement/distance between points.
Social Studies: Facebook Character Analysis / Sketch Template
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Kids love Facebook! What better way to get kids engaged in their learning than to create a Facebook page of a character they are studying. Whether a historical character, a present-day character, or future historical character, this template can be adapted to any one of these.
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Wrap-up/Closure activities
2-page template (printable)
Although this was designed to use in a Geography classroom, it is adaptable to all subjects: math, science, social studies, and language arts.
GEOGRAPHY: READER, WRITER, RUNNER GROUP COOPERATIVE GAME - FUN FOR ALL
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Are you and your student bored with worksheets that accompany your textbooks? Turn those tedious worksheets and end-of-chapter questions into a fun interactive game. Although the is is for a geography page, it can be used for all subject areas.
This is a great strategy to get your students involved and learning! Whether you are introducing a unit, researching, or reviewing at the end of a lesson or unit, this a great activity/game that will turn your worksheets and end-of-chapter questions into great fun! All ages will enjoy this activity, from 10 and older.
Can be played with any subject: English, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Geography, Math, Algebra, etc.
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Student will work in groups, each group competing against other group to answer the questions quickly and correctly. It's a race against time!
This game takes a little preparation on the teacher's part, but will create a positive and exciting learning environment. Get your students involved.
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GEOGRAPHY CONCEPT BASED PLANNING GUIDE BRAINSTORMING BUBBLE (PART 1) FREE
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Free download for phase 1 of planning a concept-based lesson by Lynn Erickson's teaching theory. Download and brainstorm an essential question.
Visit our Blog How To Teach Geography
There is no correct way to teach geography, but there are some best practices. When I began my teaching career in geography 26 years ago in Memphis City Schools, Memphis, TN, the district was focused on concept-based teaching — teaching to the big ideas & conceptual-based learning based upon Lynn Erikson's concept-based instruction. At first, I found it very challenging to implement this strategy into my lessons as it was a new concept and it significantly varied from the way we had all been presenting content to our students. It took persistence; it took patience, but I believe it was a huge part of why my students enjoyed geography and were able to grasp it. An example of this would be teaching the concept of "human population" and then applying this concept to world population ideas and issues throughout the world such as:
Push and pull factors of migration
Cartograms, and population density maps
Causes and outcomes of population growth and decline
China's one-child policies due to overpopulation
Africa's population decline
Europe's population decline, etc.
This conceptual-based learning worked well, and students were learning and grasping the concepts and material. It required me to spend more time on the concept with my students, but it gave them a BIG PICTURE of how variables affect population and how population trends work and are influenced. It made them think at higher levels preparing their pathways for high-level learning and working to strengthen their brain connectivity. It gave them a different viewpoint of looking at geography, rather than focusing on one small concept at a time.
Just to give you an idea of how I would/do begin planning each concept-based lesson, I would begin with a brainstorming bubble, and in the center circle, I would type in an essential question. All an essential question (they always have to use big terminology) is an open-ended question that educators use to spark student interest. I say, let' not make this harder than it has to be.
Here are examples of essential questions specific to geography:
How have Revolutions impacted our world? (This could be taking a look at the meaning behind "revolution" and empowering student understanding of this "concept" through discussing many different types of revolutions such as the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution in the United States and Europe, the Russian Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, the Sudanese Revolution, and the Chinese Revolution of 1949.)
Does music create culture, or vice versa?
Who is an American?
How can learning about other cultures teach us about our own?
What is the relationship between climate and natural resources?
Need an idea for an essential question? There is so much information today on essential questions than there was when I first started teaching. Simply, type into your search engine: "Essential questions for geography." and then align it with your curriculum. Others have "essentially" (no pun intended) done this work for you over the years.
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