The Five Themes of Geography
Below you will find C-SPAN Classroom resources relating to the five themes of geography. Click on each title to expand the section and view the featured resources.
Location
Location
Bell Ringer: Amelia Earhart's Attempted Around-the-World Flight (4:02)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Book Collection (7:48)
Bell Ringer: The Nation's Capital and the Compromise of 1790 (3:40)
Bell Ringer: John Wesley Powell and 100th Meridian (5:15)
Bell Ringer: The US-Canada Border: The Pig War in Northwest Washington (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Relative Location and Rebuilding after the Great Chicago Fire (2:59)
Bell Ringer: Foreign Policy and America's Geography (2:49)
Place
Place
Lesson Plan: The Removal of Confederate Statues (8 Clips)
Bell Ringer: How History is Formed (2:05)
Bell Ringer: Pictograph Cave in Montana (6:18)
Bell Ringer: City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City (3:50)
Bell Ringer: Natural and Cultural Landscapes (4:18)
Human-Environment Interaction
Human-Environment Interaction
Deliberation: How can the government better respond to natural disasters?
Lesson Plan: “Should Federal Lands be Open to Development?” (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Natural and Cultural Landscapes (4:18)
Bell Ringer: Native American and English Settlers Land Usage (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Storage (6:38)
Bell Ringer: The Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Disasters (5:58)
Bell Ringer: Clean Coal Technology (1:12)
Bell Ringer: Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change (3:24)
Bell Ringer: Climate Change and Skepticism (2:59)
Lesson Plan: Parking in the United States (11 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Gilded Age Architecture in New York City (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Climate Change and Wildfires (4:33)
Lesson Plan: Weather and the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (11 Clips)
Movement
Movement
Bell Ringer: Agriculture and the Columbian Exchange (5:16)
Bell Ringer: Trans-Alaska Pipeline (4:21)
Bell Ringer: Wyoming Railroads (5:19)
Bell Ringer: The National Road, Wheeling, West Virginia (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: El Pueblo Trading Post and the Santa Fe Trail (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Plains Indians and the Spread of Smallpox (5:35)
Bell Ringer: Maysville Road: Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and The American Plan (6:27)
Bell Ringer: Immigration History and the Hart-Celler Act (8:40)
Bell Ringer: Technological Revolutions and the Impact of Society (4:43)
Region
Region
Bell Ringer: The American Sunbelt as a Geographic Region (2:04)
Bell Ringer: The Economic and Geographic Landscape of the American West (8:48)
Bell Ringer: Regionalism in Mexico (3:00)
Video Clip: President Putin on Minority Languages and Regionalism in Russia (3:13)