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Giant Garbage Patches: Ocean Gyres |
1-2 |
Ekiss |
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Catch Me If You Can: Practicing Relative Location Words Using Literature |
K |
Cloyd |
|
Floods |
K |
Roman |
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How Helping A Flower, Helps Us! |
K |
Roman |
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Land That I Love! Landmarks and Symbols |
K |
Cabrera |
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Ocean Pals |
K |
Bojorquez |
|
The Little Red Fort |
K |
Figueroa |
|
The Sonoran Desert |
K |
Haile |
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Water is Life for Living Things |
K |
Koskiniemi |
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far |
K-1 |
Willey |
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Helper Ants |
K-1 |
Luna |
|
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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The Silly States: Where is Your State and City? |
K-1 |
Cloyd |
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways |
K-1 |
Willey |
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Where Am I? Determining Relative Location |
K-1 |
Lightfoot |
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As the Kids Come and Go: Mapping a Classroom |
K-2 |
Knowler |
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What’s the Weather? |
K-2 |
Gunn |
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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz! Why Bees are Important |
1 |
Navarrete |
|
H2O on the Go! Learning about Fresh and Salt Water |
1 |
Hobbs |
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Have You Ever Wanted to Play in the Dirt? Learning about Soil |
1 |
Gonzalez |
|
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.. Ideally! |
1 |
Goodman |
|
Keep Cool and Play On: Exploring the Science of Light |
1 |
Demichellis |
|
Living Antiques: Saguaros |
1 |
Perry |
|
Maps: Understanding Directionality and Location |
1 |
Manzanedo |
|
Runaway Rocks: Understanding Laws of Motion |
1 |
Verdugo |
|
We’re Going on an Ant Hunt |
1 |
Copeland |
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Got to Go! Got to Go! Protecting the Monarch Butterflies |
1-2 |
Green |
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I Am a Rock, I Am an Island: Describing Landforms and Bodies of Water |
1-2 |
Letofsky |
|
Kid Maps: Reading and Creating Maps with Human and Physical Characteristics |
1-2 |
Knowler |
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Mountain Magic: Identifying the Basic Physical Characteristics of Mountains |
1-2 |
Phillips |
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places |
1-2 |
Letofsky |
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Water Conservation for Young Children |
1-2 |
Ekiss |
|
Wow! Juneteenth |
1-2 |
White |
|
Leapin' Landmarks: Locating 10 Man-made Landmarks Around the World |
2 |
Phillips |
|
A Habitat Makes a Home |
2 |
Paine |
|
Bee vs Wasp: How Will They Survive? |
2 |
Carrillo |
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Big Map of Crow Boy’s Land: Human and Physical Characteristics of Japan |
2 |
Green |
|
Cesar Chavez: American Hero |
2 |
Figueroa |
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Get In The Zone: Ocean Zones |
2 |
Ngo |
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In Search of the Ninth: Using Forensic Science to Investigate the Disappearance of Ancient Rome’s Ninth Legion |
2 |
Salas Murphy |
|
Location, Location, Location: The Perfect Home for an Ocean Animal |
2 |
Lizarraga |
|
Map Tools: The Compass Rose |
2 |
Gaona |
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On the Move: Why Do People Migrate? |
2 |
Baker |
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Pesky Pollution: Types, Causes, and Solutions |
2 |
Burr |
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Salvation of the Sea Turtles: Investigating An Endangered Species |
2 |
Hibbitts |
|
The Properties of Matter: It Matters! |
2 |
Hernandez |
|
Through Time: Change in Sedona |
2 |
Letofsky |
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Urban, Suburban, and Rural: Monsoon Effects |
2 |
Herrera |
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Using Cardinal Directions |
2 |
Nethercott |
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Where Have All the Creatures Gone? An Investigation of Climate Change the in the Hudson Bay |
2 |
Rivera |
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Where in the Neighborhood is Ramona Quimby? Measuring Distance on a Map |
2 |
Phillips |
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Map for Me |
2 |
Martinez |
|
Nina Bonita: Culture and Beauty |
2 and 4 |
Norton |
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If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features |
2 and 6 |
Norton |
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Over and Through: Physical Geography Vocabulary |
2 and 6 |
Strouth |
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Sticks, Stones, Sinews and Stuff: How Early People Used the Environment to Meet Basic Needs |
2-3 |
Martinez |
|
TOADS: An Introduction to Map Reading |
2-3 |
Ekiss |
|
Which Way is Up? The Tree of Life in Africa |
2-3 |
Norton |
|
Reading Arizona Maps |
3 |
Post |
|
BLAST IT: Learning About Copper! |
3 |
Sepp |
|
Campus Cleanup |
3 |
Sweeney |
|
Fantastic Frogs: A Study of Adaptations |
3 |
Johnson |
|
Know Your State: Regions of Arizona |
3 |
Wood |
|
Let's Travel: Travel Brochures of Arizona |
3 |
Wood |
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Mapping Roxaboxen |
3 |
Warren |
|
Paint My Counties: Map Coloring the Counties of AZ |
3 |
Jenkins |
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So That the Desert Can Blossom Like a Rose: Agriculture in the Desert |
3 |
Warren |
|
The Desert is Theirs: Adapting to Our Environment |
3 |
Wood |
|
What Am I? Human or Physical Feature |
3 |
Deppe |
|
What is it Like? Mapping My Neighborhood |
3 |
Sepp |
|
What's Holding Up the Water? |
3 |
Post |
|
Yuma “Push and Pull” |
3 |
Hamel |
|
Maize to Maquiladoras: Movement from Mexico to Arizona |
3-4 |
Warren |
|
Monarch Mystic Migration |
3-4 |
Parra |
|
Presidio Life: Understanding the Life and Impact of the Spanish |
3-4 |
Rivera |
|
The Gift of Water: Modifying Our Environment |
3-4 |
Post |
|
Weaving a Story of Cooperation: The Goat in the Rug |
3-4 |
Jenkins |
|
A River Through Time: Focus on the Gila River |
3-5 |
Warren |
|
Arizona: Let’s Plan a Road Trip |
3-5 |
Barker |
|
Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail |
3-5 |
Warren |
|
Lockbox Lesson--Jaguars: Mystery and Myth |
3-5 |
Parra |
|
Take Me to the River: The Mojave Indians and the Colorado River |
3-5 |
Jenkins |
|
A Watershed Moment: Focus on Arizona |
4 |
Alarcon |
|
Earth: Layer By Layer |
4 |
Mathias |
|
Finding the Americas: How Physical Features Impact Human Settlement |
4 |
Lambert |
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Our Home: Ecosystems |
4 |
Banos |
|
Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources of Energy |
4 |
Kharbanda |
|
The Rain Saved Us – Examining Drought Impacts Yesterday and Today |
4 |
Schaecher |
|
Weaving Around the World |
4 |
Desai |
|
A River, Dead or Alive: Native Americans' and European Colonists' Treatment of a River |
4-5 |
Chambers |
|
A Storm is Brewing |
4-5 |
Spero |
|
Adventures in Archaeology |
4-5 |
Christian |
|
Westward Ho: The Difficulties of Emigrants Moving West |
4-5 |
Chambers |
|
Talking Walls: A Cultural Field Trip Around the World |
4-6 |
Guerrero |
|
It's Happening, Where? Find the Absolute and Relative Location of News Articles |
4-7 |
Chambers |
|
America’s Gateway: Learning about the 50 States |
5 |
Jolly |
|
Camouflage: You Can’t See Me! |
5 |
Wright |
|
Counting on Katherine: Let’s Have a Ball! |
5 |
Keough |
|
Garbage Island |
5 |
Sanchez |
|
Ghastly Ghost Fishing: Effects on Humpback Whales |
5 |
Garner |
|
Got Wind? Exploring Wind Energy & Wind Farms |
5 |
Avechuco |
|
Human-Caused or Natural? Exploring Impactful Changes to Habitats |
5 |
Mercado |
|
Mail Order Brides and Bridges |
5 |
Noland |
|
Map of Memories |
5 |
Barker |
|
Name That Place: Cultural Place Names in the United States |
5 |
Nice |
|
Read the USA: Passport to Regions |
5 |
Jenkins |
|
Relationship of Latitude and Longitude to Coordinate Planes |
5 |
Sharma |
|
Rising from the Dust: Learning about Natural Disasters Using the Novel, Esperanza Rising |
5 |
Amaya |
|
Rivers that Flow from the Continental Divide: The Journey of Two Rivers |
5 |
Charlson |
|
Steam and You! How Steam Engines Helped the United States to Expand |
5 |
Bradley |
|
The Amazing Journey of Edgar the Eagle |
5 |
Rees |
|
The Birth of a Rocky Mountain City and Railroad: Georgetown and the Loop Railroad |
5 |
Charlson |
|
The Cherokee: Trail Where They Cried |
5 |
Jenkins |
|
Towards the West: Oregon Trail |
5 |
Shukla |
|
Where Did My Lunch Come From? A U.S. Regional Tour |
5 |
Chambers |
|
Where in the World is Esperanza? Reasons Why Humans Immigrate |
5 |
McClain |
|
Where in the World is Ryan? Practicing Latitude & Longitude |
5 |
Deppe |
|
Where is the Trail? The Journey of Lewis and Clark |
5 |
Nice |
|
World Time Zones |
5 |
Zhou |
|
Get On the Track: Migration - An African American Adventure During WW l |
5 and 7 |
Nice |
|
What Are All the Lights? U.S. Population |
5 and 7 |
Nice |
|
Create A City: An Urban Planning Exercise |
5, 7-8 |
Ekiss |
|
A Drop in the Bucket – Ancient Egyptian Irrigation |
6 |
Milliken |
|
A Deep Dive into Ocean Zones |
6 |
Coughlin |
|
A Folktale, a Famine and a Finale: The Great Famine of 1315 |
6 |
Godfrey |
|
A Patch to Match Every Mission |
6 |
Venglarcik |
|
Add a Little Spice to Your Life |
6 |
Nice |
|
Aegean Adaptability: Geography and the Ancient Greeks |
6 |
Wiens |
|
All the Places You Go (Carbon Footprint) |
6 |
Sharma |
|
Aqueducts and Aquaduckies |
6 |
Lagerquist |
|
Cinderella Around the World & The Five Themes of Geography |
6 |
Guerrero |
|
Connecting to Our Roots Using the Novel: Me, Frida and the Secret of the Beautiful Peacock Ring |
6 |
Tripathi |
|
Fishing for a Fortune: The Science of Understanding our World |
6 |
Laird |
|
Geography and STEM: Engineering that Made a Difference |
6 |
Touchette Hutchinson |
|
Go GeoWild with Pokemon GO! |
6 |
Guerrero |
|
Great Rivers of Great Civilizations |
6 |
Strouth |
|
How the Shadoof? Egyptian Technology |
6 |
Morello |
|
India’s Contributions to the World: Zero! |
6 |
Jenkins |
|
Is There a Map in That Story? |
6 |
Halverson |
|
It's Not a Ford...It's a Fjord! Learning Landforms and Bodies of Water through Word Association |
6 |
Martin |
|
Letter From A Leader |
6 |
Rees |
|
Pull, Pull, Pulleys in Mesopotamia |
6 |
Lagerquist |
|
Sail Like an Egyptian: Alternative Energy |
6 |
Moll |
|
Saving the Saguaro and the Impact of Climate Change on Deserts |
6 |
Sharma |
|
Say What? Editorial Cartoons in the Classroom |
6 |
Wimer |
|
Soil Solutions: A Medieval Soil Mystery |
6 |
Godfrey |
|
Taming the Flames: Understanding Wildfires |
6 |
Jones |
|
The Golden Age of Athens (495 – 429 B.C.E.) |
6 |
Bhathena |
|
The Silk Road: An Ancient Internet |
6 |
Rees |
|
There’s A Map on My Lap! |
6 |
Carrasco-Kinney |
|
Where Did You Come From? Using Geography to Trace the History of Dog Breeds |
6 |
Howard |
|
Where in the Classroom is ______? Coordinate Plane and Mapping |
6 |
Campos |
|
A Region in My Own Backyard: A Geographic Field Study |
6-7 |
Halverson |
|
Balkan Basics |
6-7 |
Stout |
|
Desert Deception: Believe It or Not? |
6-7 |
Garrett |
|
The Breadwinner |
6-7 |
Gonzalez |
|
STAR IT (Simplify the Article's Really Important Topic) by Usingthe 5 Themes of Geography |
6-8 |
Martin |
|
Use Dr. Seuss's The Lorax to Explore Environmental Issues |
6-8 |
Rees |
|
What a Variety of Maps! |
6-8 |
Strouth |
|
A Country’s Shape Is More than Its Borders: Population Pyramids |
6-High School |
Rees |
|
Jerusalem: A Holy City |
6-High School |
Ekiss |
|
African Regions and their Folk Tales |
7 |
Wiens |
|
Desertification: Cause and Effect |
7 |
Stout |
|
Fast Fashion: The True Cost |
7 |
Desai |
|
From Around the Corner to Around the World: Coca-Cola |
7 |
Stelten |
|
Grand Canyon: So...What's the Attraction? |
7 |
Stelten |
|
Henrietta Lacks and The Great Migration |
7 |
Schober |
|
Inferno Arizona |
7 |
Hinton Sainz |
|
The Impact of the European Union |
7 |
Stout |
|
The Story of Allenville, Arizona: 1945-1978 |
7 |
McWilliams |
|
The Transcontinental Railroad: How Did It Change American Society and Environment? |
7 |
White |
|
The Voyage of the MS St. Louis: The Refugees No Country Wanted |
7 |
McBride |
|
Thinking Like A Historian: Jamestown v. Point Comfort (formerly called The Penned Truth) |
7 |
Woods |
|
Touchdown to the Moon: Apollo Missions |
7 |
Cullumber |
|
Wonders of the World: Exploring Living Creatures |
7 |
Bouchard |
|
From Pearl Harbor to the Rise of Mushrooms: World War II in the Pacific |
7-8 |
Porell |
|
Ground Shaking: Earthquakes Happen Every Day |
7-8 |
Haarala |
|
Maple Syrup’s Connection to Climate Change |
7-8 |
Pendleton |
|
American Dream |
7-High School |
Kovach |
|
Communicating Like Revolutionary Spies |
8 |
Shafer |
|
Hunger Games: Districts and Linear Functions |
8 |
Fredette |
|
Past (Yellow Fever), Present (COVID-19) and Future (?) |
8 |
Gupta |
|
Plastic Soup: A PSA for the Ocean |
8 |
Gingrich |
|
Shh… What Was That Noise? Identifying Sound Decibels |
8 |
Moll |
|
Shortest Distance: Volcanoes and the Pythagorean Theorem |
8 |
Sangwan |
|
Sustainability: The High Cost of Not Eating Locally |
8 |
Homyak |
|
The Cold War: It’s Not Rocket Science, or Is It??? |
8 |
Berry |
|
The Monumental Pyramids of Egypt and the Pythagorean Theorem |
8 |
Rooprai |
|
The Rajah’s Rice: Comparing India’s Population Over Time |
8 |
Dopudja |
|
Time To Talk: We Are Running Out Of Soil! |
8 |
Vargas |
|
Unlocking the Sad Secret of the Spike: COVID 19 |
8 |
Mehta |
|
When Nature Strikes: Natural Hazards Safety Booklet |
8 |
Williams |
|
Wetlands: Why Are They Endangered? |
8 and High School |
Stout |
|
Large vs Small Scale Maps: Can you Breakout of the Map? Differences in Map Scale |
8-HS |
Moll |
|
Arizona Ablaze: Assessing the Impact of Wildfires |
High School |
McIntosh |
|
Arizona and the Colorado River |
High School |
Redd |
|
Calculating Water Runoff |
High School |
Redd |
|
Indigenous Sacred Places |
High School |
Kuropatkin |
|
Into the Deep: Mapping the Ocean Floor |
High School |
Conn |
|
Is it Good? Is it Bad? Genetically Modified Foods |
High School |
Reynolds |
|
Kindertransport: Cultural Comparison of Urban Areas |
High School |
Buffington |
|
Making Research Relevant: 187º Fahrenheit! Exploring Peru’s Boiling River |
High School |
Ishaq |
|
Our Radioactive Backyard: Discovering the History and Culture of the Santa Susana Field Lab |
High School |
Luevanos |
|
Petroglyphs: Snapchat of Ancient Times |
High School |
Redd |
|
Resource Utilization: At What Cost! |
High School |
Taylor |
|
Satellites, Orbits and Space Junk |
High School |
Oswald Keene |
|
Shhh! . . . Mum’s the Word: Secret Cities of the Manhattan Project |
High School |
Kuropatkin |
|
Treacherous Trenches |
High School |
Hauter |
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