Unit 1: Thinking Geographically Map Type Conveyor Belt Game S.P.E.E.D. Categorizations Drag and Drop Sorting Game World Regions Designations: A Closer Look World Regions Designations: The Big Picture Unit 2: […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
I was listening to a recent interviewee for an incoming department chair position when the teacher referenced Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. I had seen it on the […]
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MC QUESTIONS: Volume 2 Edition 2
The challenge: to write 7 questions per week that connect current events to course content. This week’s questions include topics from: The Indonesia earthquake Racial and Ethnic Demographic data in […]
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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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MC QUESTIONS: Volume 2 Edition 1
The challenge: to write 7 questions per week that connect current events to course content. This week’s questions include topics from: The Indonesia air crash Georgia state election results Echo-chambers […]
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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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Teaching the UnderRepresented Voice through Graphic Novels
I’ve always embraced teaching the tough topics in my Social Studies classroom, but for a lot of students (and adults), starting the discussion can be tough to jump-start. In my […]
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EXAM PREP: FRQ Generator Activity
After my students responded to a TON of FRQs in preparation for their big exam day, I’ve decided to change things up and have them jump into the minds of […]
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Professional Development: Leveraging Peergrade.io for FRQs
For the remainder of my AP review season, I am leveraging a new platform called Peergrade.io and it allows just what it says. In a regular class setting, my students […]
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Protected: Crowdsourced: FRQ a Day Password Page
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Crowdsource Opportunity: An FRQ a Day…
You know what they say… an apple a day, keeps the doctor away. So I’m doing my part to keep ’em inside with FRQ’s! I wrote original FRQ-styled review questions, […]
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Why I’ve Sent My Last Covid-19 Article to Students
Before you proceed: I am posting my opinion about addressing Covid-19 in the classroom (eClassrooms), and if you don’t agree, I gladly welcome a professional dialogue. We are all coping […]
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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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VIDEO via VOX: Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins
Topics: GDP, Containerization, Shenzhen, Foreign Investment, Special Economic Zones, Tax Incentives, Free Market, Cheap Labor, Currency Manipulation, Supply Chain, Cultural Difference, Geographic distance, Manufacturing, Middle-Class, Secondary Sector, Automation, Outsourcing, neocolonialism,
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VIDEO via VOX: China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious infrastructure project in modern history. It spans over 60 countries and will cost over a trillion dollars. The plan is to […]
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