Geography and History of the World
Standard 5. Urban Growth
Lesson Plans and Activities:
- Aerial Photography and Vanishing Farmland - Ryan Swearingen - 5.1, 5.2
- Create a State - Ryan Swearingen - 5.1, 5.3, 5.5
- Defining Poverty: Using Africa as an Example - Orvil Schlatter - 5.2, 5.5
- Immigration Unit - Phil Leswing
- Take a Stand
- Immigration to the United States by Region
- Race vs. Ethnicity
- Guest Speaker on Immigration
- Drawing a City
- Changing the Face of the Local Community
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- Life on the Edge: Land Use, Food Supply and Economics in a Small African
- Village - Population Reference Bureau
- Migration: Urban, Suburban, Rural - Deb DeLion - 5.3, 5.5
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- Movement, Urbanization, and Diffusion of Music - Scott Royer - 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 11.3
- Rivers and Capitals -Carole Mayrose
- The World Cup: It's Geographic Impact on the World - Ernie Ruble - 5.2, 5.3, 5.5
- Tools of the Trade - Jill Grimes - Lesson 4 of 5. See the Resources section for all of the lessons in the Unit.
- Topographic - Urban Map Exercise - Owen Dwyer
- Urban Geography Game
- Tim Dye
- 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
- Using GIS to Understand Regional Layers - Joy Lohmeyer - Lessons III and IV of VII (An Introduction to Geography and History through Regions).
- Virtual Tour of a French City - William Valentine - 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
- Where Am I? - Deb DeLion - 5.3
Other Materials:
- Amazing Transportation (a collection of images from Janis Coffman, Decatur Middle School; Decatur, IN)
- Geography of Poverty: Case Study: Moçambique (Power Point by Dr. Rick Bein, IUPUI Department of Geography)
- Historical Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production in the United States via the USGS
- provides spatial data addressing the topic.
- National Geographic web site connections to "Cities, Challenges for Humanity", an article on urban issues in the future with photos and further resource connections.
- Patterns and Processes (Power Point by Dr. Owen Dwyer, IUPUI Department of Geography)
- Population Reference Bureau (www.prb.org)
- Transportation and the Environment (Power Point by Dr. Bill Black, IU Department of Geography)
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- U.S. Census Bureau