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Catch Me If You Can: Over, Under |
K |
Cloyd |
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Getting and Giving Help |
K |
Godfrey |
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The Three Little Javelinas: How Coyote Got His Howl |
K |
Phillips |
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Where Am I? Determining Relative Location |
K |
Lightfoot |
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far |
K-1 |
Willey |
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In Case of Fire: Mapping Your Classroom |
K-1 |
Cloyd |
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Me on the Map: Homes, Neighborhoods, and Communities |
K-1 |
Willey |
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Some Houses Are Made of Straw, Wood, or Brick, but This House is Made of Mud |
K-1 |
Martinez |
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways |
K-1 |
Willey |
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As the Kids Come and Go: Mapping a Classroom |
K-2 |
Knowler |
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It’s Your Turn: Prevent the Burn |
K-2 |
Nice/Wiens |
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Recycle, Reduce, Reuse and Save a Tree: Ideas for Conserving Trees |
K-2 |
Knowler |
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Big Moon Tortilla |
1 |
Wahlund |
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Chester the Nester Laid an Egg |
1 |
Hutchinson |
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Colors Crackle, Colors Roar |
1 |
Hutchinson |
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Don’t Call Me Pig |
1 |
Shoemaker |
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Gingerbread Cowboy |
1 |
Martinez/Guerrero |
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Grandparents Around the World |
1 |
Jenkins |
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Hand to Heart: The Significance of the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem |
1 |
Medlin |
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Let’s Visit the Galapagos! |
1 |
Warren |
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The Seed and the Giant Saguaro |
1 |
Wieweck |
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The Silly States: Where is Your State and City? |
1 |
Cloyd |
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Traveling in Peru |
1 |
Warren |
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Lead On! Courageous Civil Rights Leaders |
1 and 3 |
Medlin |
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I Am a Rock, I Am an Island: Describing Landforms and Bodies of Water |
1-2 |
Letofsky |
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Mapping the Monsoon |
1-2 |
Guerrero |
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Mountain Magic: Identifying the Basic Physical Characteristics of Mountains |
1-2 |
Phillips |
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The Three Little Javelinas |
1-2 |
Guerrero |
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Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Conservation for Young Children |
1-2 |
Letofsky |
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Kid Maps: Reading and Creating Maps with Human Characteristics |
1-3 |
Knowler |
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A Desert Golf Course: An Oasis for Humans and Wildlife! |
2 |
Sepp |
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Be a Superhero: Avenge the Garbage! |
2 |
Nice/Wiens |
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Grandparent Names: What Do You Call Yours? |
2 |
Godfrey |
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places |
2 |
Letofsky |
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Ron McNair: From Library Desegregationist to Challenger Mission Astronaut |
2 |
Jenkins |
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Through Time: Change in Sedona |
2 |
Letofsky |
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What America Means To Me |
2 |
Jenkins |
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Don’t Call Me Pig |
2-3 |
Hutchinson |
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If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features |
2-3 |
Norton |
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Nina Bonita: Culture and Beauty |
2-3 |
Norton |
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Sticks, Stones, Sinews and Stuff: How Early People Used the Environment to Meet Basic Needs |
2-3 |
Martinez |
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TOADS: An Introduction to Map Reading |
2-3 |
Ekiss |
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Which Way is Up? The Tree of Life in Africa |
2-3 |
Norton |
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Map for Me: An Original Story |
2-3 |
Martinez |
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Leapin' Landmarks: Locating 10 Man-made Landmarks Around the World |
3 |
Phillips |
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Duck for President: Understanding the Election Process |
3 |
Godfrey |
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Ellis Island: Entry to Opportunity |
3 |
Hutchinson |
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Goin’ with the Flow: Aqueducts and Canals |
3 |
Wiens |
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad |
3 |
Halverson |
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Home in the Desert: Lesson for This House is Made of Mud |
3 |
Graham |
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How Do I Get There? Planning a Safe Route to School |
3 |
Sepp |
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Levels of Government: Identifying the Different Levels of Our Government |
3 |
Moll |
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Lights On! Lights Off! Exploring Human Settlement Patterns |
3 |
Phillips |
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The Lincoln Memorial: America’s Gathering Place |
3 |
Jenkins |
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Turkish Delights: Hodja Tales |
3 |
Wiens |
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Where in the Neighborhood is Ramona Quimby? Measuring Distance on a Map |
3 |
Phillips |
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Winning Isn’t Everything: Putting the “Sports” in Sportsmanship |
3 |
Jones |
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Over and Through: Physical Geography Terms |
3-4 |
Strouth |
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Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans – Oh My! |
4 |
Rhinehart |
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Dams that Tamed Arizona’s Rivers |
4 |
Tennyson |
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Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer |
4 |
Guerrero |
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Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder |
4 |
Wieweck |
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Island Hopping: The Story of Ned Begay Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two |
4 |
Medlin |
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Journey through Time: Arizona, From Territory to Statehood |
4 |
Jones |
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Let's Travel: Travel Brochures of Arizona |
4 |
Wood |
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Living in the Desert: Hohokam Adaptation to Their Environment |
4 |
Warren |
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Maize to Maquiladoras: Movement from Mexico to Arizona |
4 |
Warren |
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Map Your State: Regions of Arizona |
4 |
Wood |
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Mapping Roxaboxen |
4 |
Warren |
|
Monsoon Days |
4 |
Ekiss |
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Pushed & Pulled: Examining Factors that Lead to Migration |
4 |
von Prisk |
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Reading the Coyote School News |
4 |
Warren |
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The Unbreakable Code: Navajo Code Talkers |
4 |
Hutchinson |
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Two Nations/One State: Comparing the National Government, Navajo Nation Government, and the Arizona State Government |
4 |
Himes |
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Weaving a Story of Cooperation: The Goat in the Rug |
4 |
Jenkins |
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What Brings Us Together? The Southwest Region |
4 |
Levine |
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When is a Desert Not a Desert? The Varying Landscapes of Arizona |
4 |
Davis |
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A River Through Time |
4-5 |
Warren |
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A River, Dead or Alive: Native Americans and European Colonists' Treatment of a River |
4-5 |
Chambers |
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Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail |
4-5 |
Warren |
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How the West Was One: A Layered Book |
4-5 |
Jenkins |
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It's Happening, Where? Find the Absolute and Relative Location of News Articles |
4-5 |
Chambers |
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Read the USA: Passport to Regions |
4-5 |
Jenkins |
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Rivers that Flow from the Continental Divide: The Journey of Two Rivers |
4-5 |
Charlson |
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So That the Desert Can Blossom Like a Rose: Agriculture in the Desert |
4-5 |
Warren |
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Take Me to the River: The Mojave Indians and the Colorado River |
4-5 |
Jenkins |
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The Desert is Theirs: Adapting to Our Environment |
4-5 |
Wood |
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The Gift of Water: Modifying Our Environment |
4-5 |
Post |
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The Mountain Community: Why Flagstaff? |
4-5 |
Hutchinson |
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This Place is Just like the Other |
4-5 |
Hutchinson |
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Tooling Around Arizona: Reading Arizona Maps |
4-5 |
Post |
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Westward Ho: The Difficulties of Emigrants Moving West |
4-5 |
Chambers |
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What's Holding Up the Water? |
4-5 |
Post |
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When Is It Ever Going to Rain? |
4-5 |
Gorry |
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Create A City: An Urban Planning Exercise |
4-8 |
Ekiss |
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All Aboard! The Orphan Trains |
5 |
Medlin |
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Flooding: How Uncle Sam Can Help |
5 |
Nice/Wiens |
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From Sea to Shining Sea: Solving the Puzzle |
5 |
Godfrey |
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Independence, Revolution, and George: Events of the Revolutionary War |
5 |
Warren |
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It's Ours: How Do We Use This Land? |
5 |
Hutchinson |
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Mountains, Sinks and Deserts: The Physical Geography of the California Trail |
5 |
Warren |
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NIMBY: The Garbage Barge from Islip |
5 |
Jenkins |
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Separatists, Mayflower Compact, and Roger Williams |
5 |
Hutchinson |
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The Birth of a Rocky Mountain City and Railroad: Georgetown and the Loop Railroad |
5 |
Charlson |
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The Cherokee: Trail Where They Cried |
5 |
Jenkins |
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Where is the Trail? The Journey of Lewis and Clark |
5 |
Nice |
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You Say You Want a Revolution: Comparing Colonial Revolutions in the New World |
5 |
Chambers |
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“I Further Declare”: A Closer Look at the Emancipation Proclamation |
5 |
Warren |
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Where Did My Lunch Come From? A U.S. Regional Tour |
5-8 |
Chambers |
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5 Themes of Geography: A Basis for Understanding Geography |
5-High School |
Teacher Consultants |
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Aegean Adaptability: Geography and the Ancient Greeks |
6 |
Wiens |
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Citizen Character Traits: Learning to Petition Public Officials |
6 |
Moll |
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Confucianism: A Cornerstone |
6 |
Ambroziak |
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Econogeography |
6 |
Lagerquist |
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Everyday Heroes: Character Traits to the Rescue! |
6 |
Medlin |
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Great Rivers of Great Civilizations |
6 |
Strouth |
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Meet the Mogollons: Who Were They? |
6 |
Nice |
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Solving the Puzzle--The Middle Ages: A Time of Movement - People, Goods, and Ideas |
6 |
Godfrey |
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Survivors in Harsh Habitats: Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi), and Hohokam |
6 |
Stegall |
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The Silk Road: An Ancient Internet |
6 |
Rees |
|
Understanding “The Stans” |
6 |
Ambroziak |
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“READ” an Artifact |
6 |
Lagerquist |
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Letter From A Leader |
6 and High School |
Rees |
|
Mansa Musa: Lion of Mali |
6 and High School |
Jones |
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Zheng He-China’s Naval Ambassador |
6 and High School |
Rees |
|
HiLo: Places Are Much More Than Just Elevations on a Map |
6-7 |
Dorn |
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Is There a Map in That Story? |
6-7 |
Halverson |
|
Who's a Noodlehead? |
6-7 |
Wiens |
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A Glimpse of Growth: Stories of Phoenix |
6-8 |
Sepp |
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A Region in My Own Backyard: A Geographic Field Study |
6-8 |
Halverson |
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African Regions and their Folk Tales |
6-8 |
Wiens |
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All Maps Lie: A Look at the Properties and Functions of Maps |
6-8 |
Halverson |
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BLAST IT: Learning About Copper! |
6-8 |
Sepp |
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Create A Culture |
6-8 |
Kuropatkin |
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Deforestation |
6-8 |
Stelten |
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DOGSTAILS: An Introduction to Map Reading |
6-8 |
Ekiss |
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Four Corners Hantavirus: Mapping Geography and Health |
6-8 |
Dorn |
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Grand Canyon: So...What's the Attraction? |
6-8 |
Stelten |
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It's Not a Ford...It's a Fjord! Learning Landforms and Bodies of Water through Word Association |
6-8 |
Martin |
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Jerusalem: A Holy City |
6-8 |
Ekiss |
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S.T.A.R. I.T. Simplify The Article's Really Important Topic: Teaching the 5 W's Using The 5 Themes of Geography |
6-8 |
Martin |
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Salt: White Gold |
6-8 |
Ambroziak |
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Sandscapes to Landscapes |
6-8 |
Kuropatkin |
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Three Gorges Dam |
6-8 |
Stelten |
|
Trees in the Desert: Using the Principles of Xeriscape |
6-8 |
Anderson |
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Use Dr. Seuss's The Lorax to Explore Environmental Issues |
6-8 |
Rees |
|
Welcome To My World: Letter from Syria |
6-8 |
Martin |
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What a Map! |
6-8 |
Strouth |
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What Are All the Lights? U.S. Population |
6-8 |
Nice |
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When Nature Strikes: Natural Hazards Safety Booklet |
6-8 |
Williams |
|
“Ichi-Ni-San-Shi-Go . . . Japan” Studying Japan using the 5 Themes of Geography |
6-8 |
Kuropatkin |
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A Country’s Shape Is More than Its Borders: Population Pyramids |
6-High School |
Rees |
|
Desertification: Cause and Effect |
6-High School |
Stout |
|
From the Dust Bowl to Sunny California |
7 |
Ekiss |
|
Get On the Track: Migration - An African-American Adventure During WW l |
7 |
Nice |
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Making the Blockade a “Ria”lity: How Drowned River Valleys Assisted in Blockading Confederate Ports |
7 |
Donoghue |
|
Rights? The 14th Amendment |
7 |
Halverson |
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Roots and Wings: A Lesson about Immigration |
7 |
Gonzalez |
|
The Breadwinner |
7 |
Gonzalez |
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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 |
|
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 |
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Tasting the Sky: Life on the West Bank |
7-8 |
Hutchinson |
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The Green Book: Black Traveler’s Guide to Happy Motoring |
7-8 |
Jenkins |
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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 |
|
Domestic Dependent Nations: Tribal Governments in the United States |
8 |
Warren |
|
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 |
|
Two Nations/One State: Comparing the National Government, Navajo Nation Government, and the Arizona State Government |
8 |
Himes |
|
Vote for Me! |
8 |
Halverson |
|
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Escape From Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona |
8 |
Halverson |
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Where Are They Safe? Understanding Presidential Succession |
8 |
Moll |
|
Where Do We Go Now? The Jewish Population After World War II |
8 |
Kratzke |
|
Cartogram of the Great Compromise |
8 and High School |
Polve |
|
NIMBY: Not in My Backyard |
8 and High School |
Ekiss |
|
Observing Characteristics of Cultures |
8 and High School |
Ekiss |
|
The Electoral College |
8 and High School |
Rees |
|
The Impact of the European Union |
8 and High School |
Stout |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Wobblies, Strikers, Vagrants & Other Undesirables: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 |
High School |
de Masi |
These are lessons from the GeoLiteracy project. For all the materials you'll need to use a lesson, click on the lesson's name.
