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H4 Homework Assignment #22-23
In this global studies worksheet, students read the noted pages in their textbooks and then respond to 8 short answer questions about Japanese involvement in World War II.
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Travel Solutions to Global Warming
Students research and investigate the concepts carbon cycle and fossil fuels. They graph the carbon dioxide production as well as populations of six nations. Together they generate a variety of recommendations to reduce travel=related...
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H4 Homework Assignment #12-15
In this global studies worksheet, students read the noted pages in their textbooks and then respond to 12 short answer questions about the Allied and Axis powers in World War II.
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H4 Homework Assignment #19-21
In this global studies activity, students read the noted pages in their textbooks and then respond to 9 short answer questions about Communist China.
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H3 Homework Assignment #2
In this global studies worksheet, students read the noted pages in their textbooks and then respond to 1 essay and 4 short answer questions about the Soviet Union.
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Global History & Geography: Latin America
The instructions say to use a text-book to label 11 different regions in modern Latin America. If a text-book is not available a map can be found on-line and printed for student reference.
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Changing Planet: Withering Plants - Stressing Over Lost Water
Expectant earth scientists examine the bottom side of a leaf and learn the role of the stomata. They consider the gas exchange that occurs through these structures and relate how the climate is changing to its impact on food crops. This...
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Lesson Plan on Intellectual Property: Combating Piracy in China
Students determine how counterfeit goods undermine the economy. In this global issues lesson plan, students examine economic principles. Students discuss how international piracy and property rights undermine trade as they participate in...
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Energy and the Environment: What Can We Do?
Students consider the impacts of global warming and brainstorm ways to help decrease their contribution to the problem. In this climate change lesson plan, students are exposed to facts concerning global warming and think of ways...
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Air Quality
Students investigate what is known as the Greenhouse Effect. They begin to explore what some scientist think is the nature and fundamental causes of this problem. Students are able to give suggestions for alternative causes of global...
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Throwing Precaution to the Wind Validity of the Precautionary Principle for Solving Climate Change
Students study climate change and come up with possible remedies for it. In this global warming lesson students complete and activity and watch a video on climate change.
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Greenhouse Gases Exposed
Learners explore the relationship between greenhouse gases and global warming. Carbon dioxide is studied as a contributor to the problem.
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Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?
Fourth graders discover that scientists examine evidence from around the world in order to explain global climate change. They see that records of climate change exist, and describe photographs interpreting changes in glaciers over time.
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World Cities of 5 Million or More
Students consult online resources to identify and map the world's largest cities and metropolitan areas. They analyze birth rates, settlement patterns and other demographic data and make predictions for the future. They write essays...
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Whoa! Slow Down-Some of You!
Learners analyze demographic data (growth rate, natural increase, fertility rate, crude birth rates, and crude death rates) and determine which areas of the world contain the fastest and slowest growth rates. They construct population...
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Post-WWII De-Colonization
The end of WWII brought big changes around the world, not the least of which occur in the increasingly decolonized continent of Africa. This slideshow details the developing countries of Ghana, Kenya, Congo, Nigeria, and South Africa, to...
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Our Global Community
First graders experience literature which shows how communities live around the world. In this global community lesson, 1st graders read books such as Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox and create a work of art based on their feelings about the...
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World Population Study
Students explore an exponential relationship and how it relates to human population growth and the current global population crisis. They graph both exponential and linear information.
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(S-1B) Global Climate, Global Wind Flow
High schoolers discuss how the horizontal transport of heat from equatorial regions polewards drives global wind systems.
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Global Temperatures
Students analyze the global temperature record from 1867 to the present. Long-term trends and shorter-term fluctuations are both evaluated. The data is examined for evidence of the impact of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing...
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Life After Trash
Students explain how recycling cuts down on greenhouse gases, and explore the consequences of global warming. In this global warming lesson students divide into teams and create a useful product made out of recyclable items.
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Agribusiness in a Global Environment Lesson 10
Students explore opportunities for international trade of agricultural products. They familiarize with factors affecting global marketing.
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Do the Research - Environment - Little Known Facts
In this research instructional activity, students look up the answers to three questions about the environment. They write short answers in the chart after researching if ozone harms humans, how many acres of rainforest are being...
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I - Search... The World: World Cultures, Global History
Students research and write a paper on a student chosen topic that has global and historical perspectives.