GeoHistory

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Title Grades Author's Last Name
We Are Explorers! K Wieweck
Were We First? K Wieweck
Chester the Nester Laid an Egg 1 Hutchinson
Hand to Heart: The Significance of the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem 1 Medlin
Traveling in Peru 1 Warren
Lead On! Courageous Civil Rights Leaders 1 and 3 Medlin
Big Brother: Explore Measurement and the Largest Navajo Rug in the World 1-3 Guerrero
Far Away and Long Ago: Japan--Past to Present 2 Godfrey
Settlers Didn’t Have Showers! Water in Arizona, Then and Now 2 McCabe
Through Time: Change in Sedona 2 Letofsky
If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features 2-3 Norton
Popcorn Population 2-3 Guerrero
Sticks, Stones, Sinews and Stuff: How Early People Used the Environment to Meet Basic Needs 2-3 Martinez
Ellis Island: Entry to Opportunity 3 Hutchinson
Goin’ with the Flow: Aqueducts and Canals 3 Wiens
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad 3 Halverson
The Lincoln Memorial: America’s Gathering Place 3 Jenkins
Winning Isn’t Everything: Putting the “Sports” in Sportsmanship 3 Jones
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans – Oh My! 4 Rhinehart
Dams that Tamed Arizona’s Rivers 4 Tennyson
Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer 4 Guerrero
Island Hopping: The Story of Ned Begay Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 4 Medlin
It’s Where??? A Look at the Location of Our First Arizona Territorial Capital and Why It Was Located There 4 Sepp
Journey through Time: Arizona, From Territory to Statehood 4 Jones
Living in the Desert: Hohokam Adaptation to Their Environment 4 Warren
Maize to Maquiladoras: Movement from Mexico to Arizona 4 Warren
Mapping Roxaboxen 4 Warren
Mining Ore Not? City Population Density as a Result of the Mining Industry 4 Leckman
Monsoon Days 4 Ekiss
Pushed & Pulled: Examining Factors that Lead to Migration 4 von Prisk
Reading the Coyote School News 4 Warren
The Unbreakable Code: Navajo Code Talkers 4 Hutchinson
Weaving a Story of Cooperation: The Goat in the Rug 4 Jenkins
Why Were They Built? Dams in Arizona 4 Warren
Early Spanish and Iroquois Housing: Similarities and Differences 4 and 7 Munson
A River Through Time 4-5 Warren
A River, Dead or Alive: Native Americans and European Colonists' Treatment of a River 4-5 Chambers
Blazing Trails: Discovering Routes through Arizona to California 4-5 Davis
Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail 4-5 Warren
So That the Desert Can Blossom Like a Rose: Agriculture in the Desert 4-5 Warren
Take Me to the River: The Mojave Indians and the Colorado River 4-5 Jenkins
The Desert is Theirs: Adapting to Our Environment 4-5 Wood
The Gift of Water: Modifying Our Environment 4-5 Post
The Mountain Community: Why Flagstaff? 4-5 Hutchinson
Wampum: Money vs. Communication 4-5 Munson
Westward Ho: The Difficulties of Emigrants Moving West 4-5 Chambers
What's Holding Up the Water? 4-5 Post
All Aboard! The Orphan Trains 5 Medlin
From Sea to Shining Sea: Solving the Puzzle 5 Godfrey
In the Wake of Columbus: The Decline of the Native Peoples 5 Baron
Independence, Revolution, and George: Events of the Revolutionary War 5 Warren
It's Ours: How Do We Use This Land? 5 Hutchinson
Mountains, Sinks and Deserts: The Physical Geography of the California Trail 5 Warren
Now You See Them . . . Now You Don’t: The Movement of People In and Out of Arizona 5 Davis
Oregon or Bust: The Journey West Along the Oregon Trail 5 Loken
Separatists, Mayflower Compact, and Roger Williams 5 Hutchinson
The Birth of a Rocky Mountain City and Railroad: Georgetown and the Loop Railroad 5 Charlson
The Cherokee: Trail Where They Cried 5 Jenkins
Where is the Trail? The Journey of Lewis and Clark 5 Nice
You Say You Want a Revolution: Comparing Colonial Revolutions in the New World 5 Chambers
“I Further Declare”: A Closer Look at the Emancipation Proclamation 5 Warren
Aegean Adaptability: Geography and the Ancient Greeks 6 Wiens
Central Arizona Project: A Story About Water 6 Anderson
Citizen Character Traits: Learning to Petition Public Officials 6 Moll
Confucianism: A Cornerstone 6 Ambroziak
Even the Rocks Cry Out! Communication Through Rock Art 6 Stegall
Great Rivers of Great Civilizations 6 Strouth
Measuring the Travels of Two Adventurers: Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta 6 Wiens
Meet the Mogollons: Who Were They? 6 Nice
Solving the Puzzle--The Middle Ages: A Time of Movement - People, Goods, and Ideas 6 Godfrey
Survivors in Harsh Habitats: Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi), and Hohokam 6 Stegall
The Silk Road: An Ancient Internet 6 Rees
“READ” an Artifact 6 Lagerquist
Letter From A Leader 6 and High School Rees
Mansa Musa: Lion of Mali 6 and High School Jones
Zheng He-China’s Naval Ambassador 6 and High School Rees
Where Did the Lake Go? The Drying Up of Lake Chad 6-7 Martin
A Glimpse of Growth: Stories of Phoenix 6-8 Sepp
Deforestation 6-8 Stelten
Four Corners Hantavirus: Mapping Geography and Health 6-8 Dorn
Jerusalem: A Holy City 6-8 Ekiss
Three Gorges Dam 6-8 Stelten
Welcome To My World: Letter from Syria 6-8 Martin
When Nature Strikes: Natural Hazards Safety Booklet 6-8 Williams
Desertification: Cause and Effect 6-High School Stout
360 Degrees of Culture: Creating Culture Wheels 7 Martin
From the Dust Bowl to Sunny California 7 Ekiss
Get On the Track: Migration - An African-American Adventure During WW l 7 Nice
Making the Blockade a “Ria”lity: How Drowned River Valleys Assisted in Blockading Confederate Ports 7 Donoghue
Rights? The 14th Amendment 7 Halverson
Roots and Wings: A Lesson about Immigration 7 Gonzalez
The Breadwinner 7 Gonzalez
Why They Come– Push and Pull Factors in Migration 7 Frank
“Lunger’s” Life – So You Like Breathing: Tuberculosis in Early Arizona History 7 Leckman
Migration: “Push" and "Pull” Factors 7 and High School Ekiss
Tempest Tossed After Ellis Island 7 and High School Leckman
Balkan Basics 7-8 Stout
From Around the Corner to Around the World: How Technology Helps in the Spread of a Product 7-8 Stelten
Tasting the Sky: Life on the West Bank 7-8 Hutchinson
The Green Book: Black Traveler’s Guide to Happy Motoring 7-8 Jenkins
Don't Just Escape A Problem, Shape A Solution: An NBA Star's Efforts to Fight Ethnic Hatred 7-8 and High School Martin
Can You Hear Me Now? How a Country's Wealth Influences Communication 8 Dorn
Chopsticks and the Future of China’s Forests: Using Mathematics to Look at the Future 8 Baron
Mission Possible: Decoding WWII Navajo Marine Code 8 Jones
Operation Yellow Ribbon: Canada and 9/11 8 Rees
Pictures Paint More Than Words: Media’s Influence and Human Atrocities 8 Leeds
Smaller, Happier, Harmonious Families: China’s One Child Policy 8 Kuropatkin
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Escape From Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona 8 Halverson
Where Do We Go Now? The Jewish Population After World War II 8 Kratzke
Cartogram of the Great Compromise 8 and High School Polve
Changing Face of the AZ Border 8 and High School Ekiss/Rees
How Much of the U.S. is Foreign-Born? 8 and High School Terlecki
NIMBY: Not in My Backyard 8 and High School Ekiss
The Electoral College 8 and High School Rees
The Impact of the European Union 8 and High School Stout
Trade — The Great Balancing Act 8 and High School Rees/Ekiss
Wetlands: Why Are They Endangered? 8 and High School Stout
You Have the Right to Remain Silent: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 8 and High School Jones
The Dred Scott Case Grades 5 and 7 Rees
Forecast Cloudy with a Slight Chance of Showers: The Delay of the D-Day Invasion (1944) High School Vogt
How Much Is Too Much? How Much Is Not Enough? Analyzing Public Policy in the Petrified Forest High School Stegall
Indigenous Foreigners: Geographic Impact on the Literary and Social Construct of “Other” High School Jozefowski
La Frontera--Barrier or Gateway? An Introductory Unit to the US-Mexico Borderland High School Rees
Location, Location, Location: Arizona and the Gadsden Purchase High School White
Mapping a Crisis: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb High School Neenos
Mormon Pioneers in Arizona High School Schmidt
NAFTA or “SHAFTA”--A Glimpse of the North American Free Trade Agreement and Its Effect High School White
Name That Place: Cultural Place Names in the United States High School Nice
The Moundbuilders: Who, Where, So What? High School Rees
The Righteous Gentile: The Story of Irena Sendler and the Holocaust High School Kiley
Traversing the Terrain: Transportation in Arizona (1853) High School Vogt
Wobblies, Strikers, Vagrants & Other Undesirables: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 High School de Masi