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Geography Common Core SL.9-10.3 resources
3 week - Human Innovation Bracket activity (presentation and group discussion)
Students will be assigned a human innovation that they will research and prepare a short persuasive presentation where they are to attempt to convince their peers that the Human Innovation they were assigned deserves the title of greatest human innovation of all time. As the class moves into the bracket they must work with others to expand their research and improve both their arguments and presentation methods.The final round shifts to a face-off between two halves of the class where each team
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
1 week - Human Innovation Bracket activity (writing and group discussion)
Students will be assigned a human innovation that they will research and prepare a short persuasive essay that defends their assigned topic as the greatest Human Innovation of all time. Groups of students will then use those essays to determine which human innovation, based on the persuasive writing of their classmates, deserves the title of Greatest Human Innovation.There is explicit guidelines for each step with extra value placed on the importance of honest and meaningful peer review.
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
Listen Lesson Kit: Ancestral Foods
Engage your students and inspire thoughtful discussion and research with media!This Listen Lesson Kit contains a guided note-taking exercise, discussion questions, follow-up links, and supporting presentation/discussion slides for Aparna Pallavi’s TEDx Talk, “What foods did your ancestors love?” This is an excellent, thought-provoking talk that shares a personal perspective on the loss of traditional or ancestral foods from indigenous cultures worldwide. While the talk is centered around the M
Grades:
5th - 12th
Get Them Thinking: Making a Pair of Jeans Activity
Making a Pair of Jeans ActivityThis is a fun way to introduce the concept of interdependency. I use this activity almost every time I teach BBI1O/2O (Introduction to Business). Could be used in a geography unit.Students will...explore the relationship between different businesses/key people involved in making a pair of jeansmake connections based on their own viewpointsreflect how the economic health of each participant can affect the entire marketIn the download...The activity instructions a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
90 minute - Human Innovation Bracket activity (group discussion)
Four groups of students will each be given separate lists of human innovations from which they must choose the innovation the they deem the greatest. They will then work in sub-groups to research and prepare to defend their innovation choice while also prepare questions that will expose the weaknesses of the other groups' selection.After a impassioned series of questions and responses the students will decide on the greatest human innovation of all time.
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
California Coastal Voices
California Coastal Voices is a project-based learning tool designed to address science, social science, and environmental literacy. The projects and activities note specific connections to the Next Generation Science Standards performance expectations and three dimensions, the History-Social Science Standards, and California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts. Consisting of six “projects” or stand-alone units that introduce students to coastal conflicts, challenges, and scientific and polic
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-LS2-6
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