Unit 1: Thinking Geographically 1.6: Scales of Analysis: Geographers analyze relationships among and between places to reveal important spatial patterns. If you’re looking for a lesson plan or activity to […]
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50 Ways to Use a Blank Political Map
Every year, I assign my students countries to investigate as the school year progresses, 7 to be exact. These countries range in region and levels of development. At least once […]
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: A Geopolitical Valentine Poem
From Russia with Love Because apparently I couldn’t get enough holidays, I am already prepping for Valentine’s Day. Depending on what unit you’re in around February 14th, you might want […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: Best Locations for a Proposed Golf Resort
Update: Fixed broken QR Code. 9/15/18 6:02am If you’re eager to show your students how GIS is applied to real jobs and the real world, this is a great story […]
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Review: ESRI’s GeoInquiries on NatGeo’s MapMaker 4.0 Platform
If you are a friend of ESRI’s GeoInquiries, this might be for you, as things have changed. If you do not know what they are, they are worth investigating. WHAT […]
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Lessons & Wksts: The Values of Location and Place
Purpose This lesson aims to help students understand the differences between geographic LOCATION and PLACE. If you’ve been trained in geography or have an old textbook laying around, you probably […]
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Lessons & Wksts: The Need for S.P.E.E.D.S. – A Parking Lot Observation
SOCIAL~POLITICAL~ECONOMIC~ENVIRONMENTAL~DEMOGRAPHIC~SPATIAL 🌎 The original inspiration for this introductory activity is credited to Zach Taylor from the AP Human Geography Teachers Facebook page. The link to the original post is HERE. The […]
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LESSONS & WKSTS: Mental Mapping a Sense of Place
*MENTAL MAPS* *SENSE OF PLACE* *TRAVEL NARRATIVE* *RELATIVE LOCATION* *FLOW LINES* *ACTIVITY SPACE* This enrichment activity aims to have students apply multiple concepts across the course, particularly Unit 1. By […]
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INTERACTIVE: College Board’s World Regions on WordWall.net
Wordwall.net was one of those web-based apps I picked up during remote learning and is worthy of keeping around. These are web-based, drag-and-drop games that you create and can be […]
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Lesson Plan: Causes of Migration – Topic 2.10
Today I introduced new content while reinforcing old skills (I love it when that happens). To begin Topic 2.10: Causes of Migration, I had students turn their interactive notebooks horizontally […]
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Lesson Plan: 3rd World Farmer Simulation
A recent tip from an experienced HuGe teacher Brian C. led me to 3rd World Farmer, an agriculture video game simulation. While this game was not likely created by anyone […]
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Professional Development: Explain the Strengths, Weaknesses, and Limitations of New Urbanism
I’m in a Gentrification & Urban Redevelopment Facebook group and an individual posted a list of sources that are critical of New Urbanism. They are good, and most of them […]
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VIDEOS & LESSONS: C-Span Classroom by APHG Unit
Monday morning? No lesson plan? Try C-Span Classroom . What a mini gold mine this resource is! I had no idea C-Span Classroom existed until Julie W. posted it onto […]
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VIDEO: Sovereignty Explained via World101
Youtube: Understand the principle that has underpinned world order for the past four hundred years. To learn more about sovereignty visit their Building Blocks module: https://bit.ly/31IW39v
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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Von Thunen & Land Survey Patterns *Coloring Book Pages
If you are in the midst of the agricultural unit and covering Von Thunen & Land Survey Patterns, you can have students make better connections with these coloring pages. These […]
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TPT Lessons & Worksheets: Mapping Inequality – Housing Segregation & Redlining Policies
As you enter into the Urbanization unit, why not have students learn how maps were used to achieve demure segregation using the HOLC maps of the 1930’s? This is a […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The Multi-Step Approach to Stimuli Analysis
*UPDATE: February 6th, 2021. New segments in italics. I am a “HuGe” (get it?) fan of our online PLT and the ingenious methods and procedures that help weave in course […]
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ILLUSTRATED PRIMER: Residential & Commercial Segregation
I finally finished my Covid lockdown project. I’m glad to finally clear this one from my plate, though I am proud of the finished product. CLICK HERE TO READ! There […]
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The Human Imprint’s Illustrated Human Geography Primer
As we begin to prep for the new year, I wanted teachers and students to be able to access the Human Imprint’s Illustrated Primer to Human Geography more easily than […]
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LESSON PLAN: Remote Learning Nat’l Geo Puzzle
A couple of years ago I edited the numbers out of the National Geographic map provided by their MapKit website to make a giant floor map puzzle for the first […]
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VIDEO via WSJ: How a Steel Box Changed the World: A Brief History of Shipping
As the container shipping industry continues to boom, companies are adopting new technologies to move cargo faster and shifting to crewless ships. But it’s not all been smooth sailing and […]
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VIDEO: Segregated by Design
‘Segregated By Design’ examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. Prejudice can be […]
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VIDEO via Quartz: NAFTA explained by avocados. And shoes.
Everyone hates NAFTA. But what was NAFTA actually supposed to do? Did it deliver on its promise? To understand that, you have to look at America’s relationships with two goods: […]
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VIDEO via NGS: Revolutionizing the Way We Grow Food
Topics: Hydroponics, Aeroponics, Food Security, Agriculture, Green Revolution, Water Conservation, Famine, Farming, Third Agricultural Revolution, Via NGS: As the climate changes and water becomes scarce in many parts of the […]
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INTERACTIVE: Atlas of Urban Expansion
Check out the Atlas of Urban Expansion for a quick interactive website concerning urban sprawl. Assign one city per student and have them compare. From the website: The NYU Urban […]
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