Featured Resource:
The Arizona Geographic Alliance
The purpose of the Arizona Geographic Alliance is to strengthen geography
education in Arizona. We offer professional development opportunities and
classroom resources including maps and lessons. Join now and also become a
member of the Education Network, a new online service from National Geographic
Society's Education & Children's Programs department, a one-stop shop for
education news, resources, discussion, and much more.
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Academy Curricular Exchange: K-5 lessons
American Heritage: lessons plans K-12 dedicated to the understanding and
teaching of our nation's factual and philosophical heritage
Ancient Africa: history lesson / art activity elementary
Ancient Civilizations Unit: grade six
Ancient Egypt: history lesson / art activity elementary
Ancient Greece: history lesson / art activity elementary
Ancient Rome: history lesson / art activity elementary
Arizona social studies webquest for grades 3 -5
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Bill of Rights, Origins of: lesson
Bill of Rights, Impact: lesson
Bill of Rights, What It Means To Be An American: lesson
Bill of Rights, Founders: lesson
Bill of Rights, Responsibility: lesson
Bill of Rights, Media: lesson
Bosnia, The Crisis in Bosnia: Lessons grades 6-12
Budget Simulation/Interactive: This simple simulation should give students a better
feel of the trade-offs which policy makers need to make in creating federal budgets
and dealing with deficits.
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Canyon Diablo - Where are You? 5-12 lesson
Canyon Diablo - A Meeting of the Minds: 5-12 lesson
Canyon Diablo - A Bridge Over Devil's Canyon: 5-12 lesson
Canyon Diablo - Locating Canyon Diablo: 5-12 lesson
Comics for Students from the Federal Reserve
Twelve different comics teach children about the importance of saving, the history
of money, foreign trade, and more. You can order a maximum of 35 of each.
Civics Flash Cards
Civilizations, Why Do They Fail? Grade six
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Discovery School: Geography Lessons K-5
Distribution of Goods: elementary
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Economics: lesson plants all grades
Economics: lesson plans for high school
European Union: topic-specific brochures, free classroom sets
Exploring the Great Depression and the New Deal - An Interdisciplinary Project
Approach: Middle school
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Geography Club: activities
Geography Lessons: Grade 7
GIS: lessons, activities, mapping
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History Buff: Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to
providing FREE primary souce material for students, teachers, and history buffs.
This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in
American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is
information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400
years
Historical Treasure Chest: social studies & language arts activities
History Detectives: lessons
History: the role of newspapers: lessons
History, Using Fiction to Support History Teaching: Lessons grades 6-12
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If Trees Could Talk: 8 history and social studies lessons
Italian Renaissance: History lesson / art activity elementary
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Kurdistan, No Friends but The Mountains: A Simulation on Kurdistan. Lessons
grades 6-12
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Labor History: complete high school curriculum with handouts
Land Use: social studies, science, language arts activity grades 6-12
Lesson Plans Page: lessons / activities
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Maps/USGS: lessons grades 7-12
Map Machine
Masai and I: Economics and Geography Lessons Grade 3
Middle Ages: Lessons
Modern Art: History lesson / art activity elementary
Mountains: A Global Resource: unit
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National Geographic: maps & lessons
Native American Fine Arts Resource Guide
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On the Way Home: Economics and Geography Lessons Grade 5
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PBS Teacher Source: lessons & activities
Place Names: Learn about holiday place names by using the USGS Geographic
Names Information System (GNIS).
Population Growth: math & environmental activities
Population: activities and lessons
Population Pyramids by state
Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Free-Market: lesson for 4th grade
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Rivers: Geography & History
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Economics and Geography Lessons Grade 3
Silk Route, The: Economics and Geography Lessons Grades 3-5
South Africa, No Easy Road to Freedom: The New South Africa. Lessons grades
6-12
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The Trail on Which They Wept: Economics and Geography Lessons Grade 5
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USGS Educational Resources: Maps & Lessons
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Wolf Habitat, Incredible Shrinking: science and social studies activity
Woman's Suffrage: Seneca Falls. Lessons grades 6-12
Check out The Outlaws of Canyon
Diablo! Engage your class with this
exciting publication for students in grades 5
and up with the look and journalistic style of
an 1880's newspaper. Outlaws is a work
of historical fiction - reflecting issues,
events and news of 1882 throughout the
Arizona Territory and beyond.
Brought to you by the same folks as The
Green Frog News, you will love the Outlaws
newspaper, and website - bursting with free
supplemental teaching resources such as
maps, lessons and photographs.
Great Finds
Walkabout
You will want to bookmark this site as you
follow the travels, see the sites and hear
the sounds posted by an adventurous
couple traveling from Berekely, California
around the world!
My Wonderful World
National Geographic presents
MyWonderfulWorld.org - providing
resources such as suggestions for family
activities and ways that parents can work to
get more geography into the classroom.
The site also provides links to geography
games and online adventures for kids and
teens, classroom materials for educators,
and ways for young and old to test their
global IQs. The site also provides tools for
communicating to policy makers and
education leaders the importance of
geographic literacy.
For more information visit the NCGE
website at www.ncge.org.
The National Council for Geographic
Education
The National Council for Geographic
Education works to enhance the status and
quality of geography teaching and learning.
The National Council for the
Social Studies
Founded in 1921, National Council for the
Social Studies has grown to be the largest
association in the country devoted solely to
social studies education.
National Geographic Education
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