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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: Mathematics (4), or Social Studies (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Coordinate Geometry
Description: Students will participate in several activities that will build their knowledge of coordinates graphing. Students will use ordered pairs to locate points on a grid. Students will also relate coordinate graphing to the real world through finding locations on a city map.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.
Subject: Social Studies (3 - 4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: State Jeopardy - How Much Do You Know About My State?
Description: This lesson is a distance learning collaborative project involving another school. Each school will do research on the other school's state and be able to answer questions about that state posed by the other school. Students learn not only about another state, but about their own in formulating questions to stump their opponents.
Subject: Social Studies (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Edible Alabama and Her Agricultural Resources
Description: This is a great culminating activity after a unit study on the natural resources of the state of Alabama. Students will investigate some of Alabama's agricultural resources and create a multimedia presentation about one of them or recipe brochure featuring Alabama resources. Students will then decorate cookies that have been cut into the shape of Alabama, with various food items to represent the agricultural resources found in Alabama.
Subject: Social Studies (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Wandering Alabama
Description: This lesson is a fun fact gathering mission! Alabama is rich in history, museums, natural and manmade attractions, and some just plain wacky attractions. Students will work in collaborative groups to create a guide to sites in Alabama with descriptions, map locations, expenses involved, and other useful information. Come on! Let's explore Alabama!
Subject: Mathematics (4), or Social Studies (4)
Title: Plotting Points in Alabama
Description: The students will be able to use coordinates to find locations of specific cities on a map of Alabama.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Arts - Visual Arts, Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - United States History,
Title: Symbols and Overlays
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Description: In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students choose a state and create a multi-leveled map booklet. They apply basic map skills and develop a sense of the state's shape by outlining the state and drawing overlays of the state's geographic regions, cou
Thinkfinity Partner: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4
Subject: Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Map of the United States from Xpeditions Atlas
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Description: This resource, found in the Xpeditions Atlas, is a printable map of the United States. The maps available in the atlas allow the user to choose basic or detailed view, turn borders on or off, and save the map as a .pdf or .gif file. There are over 18
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Mathematics - Applied Mathematics, Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Geography of Pizza
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Description: In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students analyze Earth's surface according to the spatial elements of points, lines, and areas, and use a simple map to identify features in terms of spatial elements. This lesson uses a pizza restaurant to intro
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Science - Earth science, Science - Physical Sciences, Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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Description: In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students compare maps of plate tectonics with population density maps and analyze what these maps imply about the relationship between population and seismic hazards. They also research specific volcanoes or earthquak
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Social Studies - Geography,
Title: How Crowded Are Our States?
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Description: In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students combine information from statistics and maps to find out about world and national population characteristics. They determine which countries and states appear to be particularly crowded and which states are s
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Mathematics - Statistics, Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Population Pasta
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Description: In this student activity, from Xpeditions, students investigate population statistics. Using different types of pasta to represent different numbers of people, students experiment with using graphs, maps, and more to illustrate the population densiti
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Science - Earth science, Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Be a Geography Detective
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Description: In this Xpeditions lesson, students become geography detectives, learning about geography and the relationship human beings have with the land. Students apply the six "essential elements" of geography as they make observations and draw conc
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - State History,
Title: Make State Maps With MapMachine
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Description: In this Xpeditions lesson, students compare and contrast their state with another one using observations they make from National Geographic's MapMachine. They look at their own state's maps as the teacher creates them for the class, and the
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - State History, Social Studies - United States History,
Title: Mapping Your State's Culture
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Description: In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the concept of culture. They learn about interesting aspects of their state's culture, including arts, recreation, folklore, and cultural diversity. Finally, students design thematic maps showing some
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
Subject: Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - History,
Title: Human Migration: The Story of a Community's Culture
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Description: In this Xpeditions lesson, students come to understand key concepts of human migration through the examination of maps and migration patterns. Students research and document the impact of migration on a region's cultural landscape. They examine
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5, 12
Subject: Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - History,
Title: Tell a Migration Story...with Maps
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Description: In this Xpeditions student activity, students share information about migration in their communities by planning and creating migration maps. After learning about mental maps and mapmaking in general, they create their own maps to illustrate how migr
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Arts - Photography, Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - History,
Title: Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
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Description: In this Xpeditions student activity, students take pictures that tell the story of their community's cultural heritage and the story of human migration that is unique to their area. They consider how they can tell a story with a sequence of phot
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Language Arts - Journalism, Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - History,
Title: Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
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Description: In this Xpeditions student activity, students become reporters for the local newspaper and conduct interviews with someone who has migrated to their community. After they finish their interviews, students share what they have learned about their inte
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Social Studies - Geography, Social Studies - History,
Title: Migration: The Human Journey
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Description: This student reproducible, from Xpeditions, presents three maps detailing the ethnic roots of the populations of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for links to the lessons and activities th
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject: Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Tell a Migration Story...About your Community
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Description: This student reproducible, from Xpeditions, provides a checklist for students to follow when performing research, conducting interviews and taking photographs in preparation for presenting the story of their communities. Click "Display Full Reco
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Subject: Social Studies - Geography,
Title: Human Migration Guide (3-5)
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Description: This student reproducible, from Xpeditions, features information about migration, including types of migration, people who migrate, reasons people migrate, laws of migration, and impacts of migration. There are also links to several related resources
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic
Grade Span: 3, 4, 5
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