Geography Skills

• Culture Fair/ Global Village

• Various “Create Your Own Country” projects

• Create a map including required elements of classroom or bedroom

• Kagan Match-Mine or Rally Coach longitude and latitude

• Longitude and latitude (absolute location): Using an orange and a Sharpie, each learner draws the world as they currently see it. Next, they peel their orange. The seams of the orange represent lines of longitude and latitude. Learners may then eat their orange.

• River systems – identify and illustrate parts of a stream. Describe how and why a stream develops. Design your own stream.

• Make and use geographic tools (e.g., compass, astro-lab, GPS)

• Measure and map distances

• Participate in the Geography Bee

• GeoHive – useful website for researching geographic and country data, demographic information, and global trends (https://geohive.ie/)

• Human Battleship

• Compass Walk

Europe and Russia

• Read a biography from the Renaissance era.

• Venn diagram – types of government

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

Asia

• Gooru – early China, early India (https://gooru.org/welcome/)

• Silk Road Google Earth tour (https://www.google.com/earth/)

• Religion flipbook/foldable

Middle East

• Google Cultural Institute (www.google.com/culturalinstitute).

• Compare/contrast essay: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

• Venn diagram: Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

• Share regional foods.

• Share regional music (http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com)

Oceania

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Educational Resources (https://www.noaa.gov/educational-resources)

• NOAA Ocean Service Education (https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/resources.html)

Polar Regions

• Arctic Council (https://arctic-council.org/en/)

• Climate Change Learning Sciences Research - University of Maryland (http://www.climateedresearch.org/polar/)

• National Science Foundation - Arctic and Antarctic (https://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/arcticantarctic.jsp)

Africa

• Country reports using the Almanac, CIA World Fact Book, and Culture Grams Data.

North America

• Gooru – ancient Americas (https://gooru.org/welcome/)

• State reports

• Kids Voting

South America

• Gooru (www.goorulearning.org)

General Activities

• Google Cultural Institute (www.google.com/culturalinstitute).

• Share regional foods.

• Share regional music (http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com)

• Interview a person who has experienced an event in history

• Country reports using the Almanac, CIA World Fact Book, and Culture Grams Data.

Around the World in 100 Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz

Puffin, 1998 (978-0-698-11638-2)

Encounter by Jane Yolen

Sandpiper, 1996

(978-0-152-01389-9

Explorers by Carlotta Hacker

Crabtree Publishing, 1998

(978-0-778-70026-5)

The History News: Explorers

by Michael Johnstone

Candlewick, 1997 (978-0-763-60314-4)

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the New American West

by Steven Kroll

Holiday House, 1996 (978-0-823-41273-0)

Locks, Crocs, and Skeeters: The Story of the Panama Canal by Nancy Winslow Parker

Greenwillow Books, 1996 (978-0-688-122416)

Lost Treasure of the Inca by Peter Lourie

Boyds Mills Press, 2002 (978-1-563-97983-5)

Talking with Adventurers

by Pat & Linda Cummings

National Geographic Books, 1998

(978-0-792-2270683)

Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse

(contains mature content)

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2005

(978-1-416-90327-7)

All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen

Little Brown Books, 1993 (978-0-316-96895-9)

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary

by Ruud van der Rol & Rian Verhoeven

Puffin, 1995 (978-0-140-36926-7)

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

Lee & Low Books, 1995 (978-1-880-00019-9)

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida

Puffin, 1996 (978-0-698-11390-9)

The Children of Topaz:The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp by Michael O. Tunnell & George W. Chilcoat

Create Space Independent Publishing, 2011

(978-1-468-07817-6)

Elizabeth by Claire A. Nivola

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR), 1996

(978-0-374-32085-0)

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War by Yukio Tsuchiya

Sandpiper, 1997 (978-0-395-86137-0)

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-44

by Hana Volavkova

Schocken, 1994 (978-0-805-21015-6)

The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith L. Oppenheim

HarperCollins, 1995

(978-0-006-443393-8)

The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II by Louise Borden

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003

(978-0-689-85396-8)

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

by Ken Mochizuki

Perfection Learning, 2003 (978-0-756-94773-6)

Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskeegee Airmen of World War II by Patricia McKissack

Walker Books, 1996 (978-0-802-78292-2)

Rose Blanche by Gallaz & Innocenti

Creative Editions, 1985 (978-1-568-46189-5)

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in WWII by Penny Colman

Crown Books, 1998 (978-0-517-88567-3)

Sadako by Eleanor Coerr

Puffin, 1997 (978-0-698-11588-0)

Shin’s Tricycle by Tatsuharu Kodama

Walker Books, 1995 (978-0-802-78375-9)

Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt

Walker Children’s Books, 1996

(978-0-802-77588-7)

Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan Bachrach

Little Brown Books, 1994 (978-0-316-07484-5)

The Unbreakable Code by Sara H. Hunter

Rising Moon Books, 2006 (978-0-873-58638-2)

V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II by Sylvia Whitman

Lerner Publishing, 1992 (978-0-822-51727-6)

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

by Michael Foreman

Anova Books, 2006 (978-1-843-65087-4)

The Wind Is Not A River by Arnold Griese

Boyd Mills Press, 1995 (978-1-563-97564-6