1071 Using Collage to Represent Themes of the Melrose House Experience Lesson Plan Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: Beth Wernery: "Using Collage to Represent Themes of the Melrose House Experience Lesson Plan" is a means of initiating an interactive experience for students. Using this resource fifth grade students will navigate through Melrose House, a southern home in Natchez, Mississippi.... 1072 Human Migration: The Story of a Community's Culture Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: Mary Wolf: Human Migration: the Story of a Communitys Culture, is a comprehensive instructional resource provided by National Geographic. Four major activities guide students in the study of key concepts related to migration, patterns of migration and the effect migration have had on the cultural makeup of their own community.... 1073 Mapping Your State's Culture Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: Matthew Bonaudi: Mapping Your State's Culture is a National Geographic lesson that asks students to fill in blank maps with the information about cultures that they have learned about. This lesson partly meets the Ohio third grade indicator that asks students to compare the cultural practices of the local community with those of other communities in... 1074 "Yarning" About Latitude and Longitude Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: Matthew Bonaudi: Yarning about Latitude and Longitude, is a catchy title for a student-involved lesson plan. Education World presented this plan and it nicely meets the third grade Geography indicator about identifying features on maps and globes.... 1075 What We Can Learn From Maps Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: Kim Kozbial-Hess: This instructional resource provided by National Geographic is intended to instruct fourth graders to identify manufacturing, agricultural, mining and forestry regions in Ohio. It is quite a lengthy lesson.... 1076 Introduction to Latitude and Longitude Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: Mary Wolf: National Geographic has developed this instructional resource, Introduction to Latitude and Longitude, for fifth grade teachers. The activities require a computer with Internet access and outline maps of the world and the United States for each student or pair of students.... 1077 American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: Beth Wernery: American Colonial Life in the Late 1700's: Distant Cousins" compares the life of two families 200 years ago (the Springer family from New Castle, Delaware and the Choate family from Ipswich, Massachusetts). Students are asked to research both families through sites from the Smithsonian Institute.... 1078 The Sun and the Earth Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: Mary Wolf: National Geographic has developed this instructional resource, The Sun and the Earth, for fifth grade teachers. This lesson helps students understand the relationship between earth and the sun and how this relationship affects the seasons on earth.... 1079 "On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: Paula Jameson: In ON THE ROAD AGAIN": MOVING PEOPLE, PRODUCTS, AND IDEAS students Identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place. It is a National Geographic Xpeditions lesson plan.... 1080 Where in the World are We Vacationing? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: Paula Jameson: In Where in the U.S. are we vacationing, students use coordinates of latitude and longitude to determine the absolute location of points in North America.... |