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Activity Link |
Description |
Grade |
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Patterns of Immigration |
An interactive Flash animation activity that
examines colonies, the changing position of the frontier and
graphs patterns of US immigration.
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6-8 |
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GIS for
History |
This site gives history students and teachers the
power of GIS to investigate critical moments in American
history. Each investigation provides an interactive GIS
map for studying patterns in historical census data over a
period of time, a collection of historical documents chosen to
help put the data into historical context, and lesson plans
created by teachers and university instructors.
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7-12 |
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Mongol Empire |
Google Earth
presentation of the Mongol Empire during the Middle Ages from
its beginning and expansion throughout the world.
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9-12 |
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History Illustrated Forum |
Google Earth Forum with links to history tours
and lessons utilizing Google Earth.
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all |
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Voting Districts |
Interactive Flash animation mapping lesson where
students draw voting district boundaries based on census data
and determine the political consequences of representation
boundaries.
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8-12 |
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Analysis of Trade Flows |
Lesson on mapping trade flow maps with background
on representing information.
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6-8 |
Map Maker- National Atlas
Government
History
People
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Free mapping tool with MANY clickable layers
ready to use for class discussion or critical analysis lessons.
This is worth exploring! Print your maps too!
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all |
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National Geographic Xpeditions |
Lesson index for the world in spatial terms,
people and places, physical systems, human systems, environment
and society, and the uses of geography. All lessons are
classroom tested, standards-based, and have many supporting
resources provided by National Geographic. This is worth
looking at!
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K-12
all indexed |
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Pump it! Burn it! Ship it! |
This project invites students to explore world
oil consumption, production, and reserves across space and time,
using data from the British Petroleum web site.
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9-12 |
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David
Rumsey Historical Map Collection |
18,460 maps online from the 18th and 19th
centuries, N & S America, World, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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