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- Curriculum Materials
- 9th Grade Pacing Guides
- Maps for Unit 7: Conflict Assessment (Economic Activity; Ethno-religious Groups; Oil Infrastructure)
- Professional Development
- Links
Professional Development
- March 8 Geography
Institute, 8am-4pm for 6th and 9th Grade Teachers, at the CO History
Museum (13th & Broadway)
Readings: Realms & Regions; & Relocating resource peripheries... and chapters 1-3 in Understanding by Design
- January 26,
2008 Geography Institute for 6th and 9th Grade Teachers,
at the CO History Museum (13th & Broadway) from 8a-4p
Assigned Reading for the Institute
Pam Wridt's PowerPoint presentation: "Geographies of Gender" - November 17th
Geography Institute
Pam Wridt's PowerPoint Presentation: "Population Geography"
Notes to Pam Wridt's Lecture
- Colorado Geographic
Alliance (COGA)
- COGA has a
New Website. The new website (http://www.unco.edu/coga)
provides a range of support for teachers. There are professional
development opportunities, resources, funding opportunities, membership
directories, and lists of events. COGA will continually update and
improve the website.
How to Reach COGA:
Phone: 970-351-2743
Email: COGA@unco.edu
Website: http://www.unco.edu/coga
- COGA has a
New Website. The new website (http://www.unco.edu/coga)
provides a range of support for teachers. There are professional
development opportunities, resources, funding opportunities, membership
directories, and lists of events. COGA will continually update and
improve the website.
- World Affairs
Challenge
DU has grant money available to waive the fee for DPS teams, plus is offering a small stipend for participating teachers! The research phase of the project just began last week, so it's not too late. To register, email Liz Beindorff at: ebeindor@du.edu . For more information and details about the program, visit: http://www.du.edu/worldaffairschallenge/
- DU's Center for International Relations (CTIR) offers lots of resources to teachers of Geography, World History and other courses dealing with global issues:
- Courses
CTIR offers graduate level in-service courses for K-12 teachers in Colorado. These courses delve into world history, comparative politics, cultural and physical geography, foreign languages, and economics.
If you are interested in taking a CTIR course, please contact Kirsten Kahn at 303-871-2405, or email at ctir-coga@du.edu or visit their web at http://www.du.edu/ctir/courses.html for more information, costs and registration requirements and application.
- Student Programs such as World Affairs Challenge and Model UN
- Speakers Bureau
- and much more!
Links
Each link will open in a new browser window. To return here, simply close that window. The links are found in the following categories:
Free Map Resources
Xpeditions Atlas @ National Geographic Hundreds of printer-friendly blackline maps - world, region or country - and you can also choose between blank or labelled maps. They also have an immense collection of lesson plans and activities organized by standard or grade level and of course the "Xpedition" Hall, an online interactive museum. Great resource.
TerraServer USA is a free database of aerial photographs and topographic maps of the US. You can search by place name or type in an address!
The Upsidedown Map Page Shows an entertaining variety fo upsidedown maps and related resources about viewing the world from different perspectives. Great tool for teaching students about different map projections, their purposes and their effect on how we view the world.
Geographer's Craft Project at UC Boulder is a great site that serves as an introduction into the geographer's craft. The interactive site takes students through several overviews, some of which may be too advanced for K-12. This link will take you to the Map Projection Overview, but you'll find links to overviews for GPS, Geodetic Datums and Coordinate Systems as well.
NASA's Earth from Space site provides a very large (it's huge!) collection of satellite images of the Earth. Once you get familiar with the collection, you can try searching the Find Photos link at the top of the page for a clickable map of the Earth (it's much more challenging to search and navigate).
Historical Maps
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection at UT Austin. An amazing collection of
historical maps from every region of the world. Be prepared to be
glued to year seat for a couple of hours.
Cartographic
Images provides hundreds of historical maps dating from 6,000 BC to
1800 AD. The site is conveniently divided into Ancient, early Medieval,
late Medieval and Renaissance. The site contains some broken links
and can be cumbersome to navigate, but there are some interesting maps
here.
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LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
Próceres
de Latinoamérica
This page is dedicated to the leaders and heroes of Latin America´s
Independence. Lots of links to every Latin American country, all
in Spanish. Some links available in English as well.
RETANET
Part of the Latin America
Data Base (LADB) web site for secondary educators, Resources for Teaching
about the Americas (RetaNet) is the result of an educational project funded
by the U.S. Department of Education. Find links to lesson plans written
by secondary teachers as well as current events, and more.
LASER:
Latin American School and Educational Resources
Lots of information, news, curriculum and links to other resources on
each country in the continent.
Peace
Corps' World Wise Schools
An education program that seeks to engage learners in an inquiry about
the world, themselves, and others. Initially set up as a correspondence
"match" program between Volunteers and U.S. classes, World Wise
Schools has expanded its scope by providing a broad range of resources
for educators -- including videos, teacher guides, classroom speakers,
a newsletter and online resources.
GlobalSecurity.org Good resource for teachers looking to augment their background knowledge of geopolitical issues and excellent analysis of events in the news. The site is commonly cited by news agencies, and their most common audiences include subject matter experts, senior leaders, junior staff and interns, concerned citizens and especially news reporters. Be sure to check out the "Target: Saddam" link for lots of updates and analysis on the war on Iraq.
Xpeditions
@ National Geographic
An excellent resource
from National Geographic that provides lesson plans, virtual museum exhibits
and interactive experiences.
http://www.un.org/
A good resource for
statistics and information from the UN on countries around the world.
Be sure to visit the CyberSchool
Bus for excellent classroom resources, lessons and units of study.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
InfoNation, provided
by the UN's CyberSchool Bus, allows you to compare as many as seven countries
on as many as four different sets of demographic data.
Global
Connections
This PBS web site is the online home to a family of sites created to help
teachers, students, and the general public learn more about events around
the world through readings, lesson plans, links, timelines, and maps.
WAR WITH IRAQ: Primary sources related to the War With Iraq The Dartmouth College Library's Department of Government Documents has compiled this list of resources regarding the war on Iraq.
http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/outreach/index.html
This site from the
US Geological Survey provides lessons on mapping, natural resources and
GIS.
http://www.prb.org/
The Population Reference
Bureau's site is a very rich source of information on most countries and
provides many teaching resources. Be sure to take a look at
their "Child 6 Billion" unit, located in the "Education"
tab along the top of the page, that looks at the challenges facing the
next generation as population continues to grow.
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National
Council for Geographic Education
Find information on geography events and workshops, online resources,
their annual conference and how to become a member.
COGA,
Colorado Geographic Alliance
Access geography education information and resources.
National
Council for the Social Studies
Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual
skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship
in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the
Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all
social studies educators. Extensive resources for all social studies
teachers will be found here.
Colorado Council for the Social Studies Our local affiliate is now online! Find links to many resources.
Educational Resources Services at 1330 Fox St. has a Classroom Library with resources for teachers, such as classroom sets of books, including Spanish-language materials, educational posters, art and other materials to reinforce your instruction. They also have a Professional Library with resources for teachers, administrators and librarians to promote and support your professional development.
HPR*TEC
The HPR*TEC mission is to help teachers and other educators create, share,
or find solutions to problems they encounter when integrating technology
into education. Find excellent tools for online collaboration and instruction
using advanced telecommunication technologies.
RubiStar:
A rubric generator
This innovative site makes the work of creating rubrics for project-based
learning activities as simple as choosing the criteria from a wide range
of lists. THere are sample rubrics for almost any type of activity
you can think of.
History/Social
Studies for K-12 Teachers
A very large collection
of links to social studies resources for teachers. Some inactive
links, but with such a vast collection of resources, it won't really matter.
G.E.M.
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide
educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources
found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial
Internet sites. The site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Education.
AskERIC
AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information
to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone
interested in education throughout the United States and the world. Follow
the above link to find lessons on social studies.
The
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) Social Studies Web
Site More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997
to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources
easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
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Social Studies Home
Have a favorite link or other resource you'd like to share with other
teachers? Submit it to the social studies coordinator at: Gilberto_munoz@dpsk12.org