International Geography Curriculum for 5-8

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Social Studies - 5-8
Content Standard I: Geography
Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments.

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Lesson Plans

Title:	Migrations
Description:	Students will investigate and understand the historical movements of people, as well as the curren socio-economic pressures that motivate current day migrations.
Submitted By:	Susan Tingey
Date:	7/2/2007
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Title:	Guess What They Like
Description:	Game to interpret material values in other cultures to begin to appreciate differences. Can be played at any secondary school level.
Submitted By:	John Egbert
Date:	4/24/2006
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Title:	Home Away From Home
Description:	Students identify personal cultural traits and compare them with classmates and other students of their age around the world, or at least the cultural ways of groups in different countries.
Submitted By:	John Egbert
Date:	2/5/2007
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Title:	Web Cam Around the World
Description:	Students web cam on world cam sites to view a variety of locations around the world. They print their pictures of a chosen site. Grid it on to a larger paper and finish it in a medium of their choice.
Submitted By:	Laurie Heintz
Date:	5/1/2006
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Title:	Flying Solo, Pantanal
Description:	Independent study project to conceive, develop and complete a project of the student's own design on a topic of interest based on research into the Brasilian Pantanal.
Submitted By:	Cecilia Huang
Date:	8/7/2007
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