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Teacher
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Minnesota
Standards Based Geography Course
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page provides selected Internet links support for those who are teaching the Minnesota Standards Based Geography course.
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Some
Special Sites for Geography Teachers
Historical
Census Browser
The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S.
states and counties from 1790 to 1960. This site allows you to browse
the data files for each decade and choose from the lists of variables.
You can produce lists of data by state or county that can be sorted,
calculate proportions, or graph any of the variables. The data is downloadable
and the site give directions for Apple and PC compter downloads.
USGS:
Teaching with Topographic Maps-25 Ideas for Educational Lessons
(all grade levels).
WWW4teachers
This is an excellent website for finding lessons, WebQuests, ThinkQuests
and other supporting materials for the MN benchmarks. Essentially, it
is a search engine. Use the clickable words and pull down menus to narrow
down to what you want. Many useful topics. The WebQuests for Geography
include: landforms, maps and mapping, and places and cultures.
FindSounds
Need some sounds to pep up your slide show? At Find Sounds you can search
for the type of sound file as well as the topic. I entered city and
found traffic sounds. I entered factory and got a list of different
sounds.
Microsoft
Offce Templates for Teachers
Need a premade presentation in PowerPoint, or an Excel gradebook based
on percentages, points, averages? These and other templates may be found
and used free
Notable
Pics
Notable Pics, is a tool that allows K-16 teachers and students to use
their own photographs (or those which they have copyright permission)
as the basis of a web-based lesson. Once the teacher has uploaded a
photograph, the teacher can add facts to areas of the photograph to
direct the students' attention to pertinent details. The teacher can
then add instructions, content information and hyperlinks to create
the rest of the lesson.
Pics4Learning
Offers free pictures for teachers in various categories
Shock-ing
Geography
An interactive outline map site created by Daniel J. Pfeifer of Wake
Forest University. Students can quiz themselves on physical, current
political and some historical map information. Historical maps are so
far only for Europe 1763-1914, but physical and current political maps
cover most world areas. Instructors can have results of student self-quizzes
emailed to them. Requires Shockwave software (free download).
Gristwood
Geography Globe
This is a site with a navigation menu on the left which leads to categorized
sets of annotated links.
Demographic
Topics
Lots of links here, organized by theme.
Using
Geography to Learn About History Grade Level 9-12
As students may already know, geographical factors have impacted the
course of history in many ways. When learning about historical topics,
it can be very helpful to simultaneously study a region's geography.
In this lesson, students will investigate how geography impacted daily
life, warfare, and trade in ancient Greece. They will use this information
to write statements to a school committee explaining how geography should
be incorporated into the history curriculum.
On
Line Map Creation
Here's a mapping site that allows students to use the input form to
create all kinds of maps right online! The best feature about this site
is that users can create maps using different projections, including
Mercator, equidistant cylindrical, polar stereographic, and orthographic.
The site goes into great descriptions and examples of each!
Virtual
Maps
This tour is designed to introduce Geography students to the basics
of maps and globes. You will look through various sites and answer questions
about maps and their qualities. Get some paper and a pencil, and start
clicking!
Great
Globe Gallery on the Web
Some popup advertisements appear at this site. Lots of examples of different
globe projections and other images. There are many topics displayed
on a globe format. Vegetation of the world, mountains of the world are
just a few simple topics.
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Lesson
Writer's Section
View the MNGeog (2004 version)
Lesson Template
Download
MNGeogLesson Template in MS Word 2001
Download
MNGeog Lesson Template in RTF
(most
word processors will open this)
Note:
some files on this site are compressed using Stuffit! You may download
a free copy of Stuffit! Expander by clicking
here.
Want
help preparing for or teaching your Middle School or
High School Geography Course?
MAGE has resources available to you! email: Dr.
David Lanegran
Call: 651-696-6504
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