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Determine similarities and differences in the ways different cultural groups address
basic human needs (i.e., food, water, clothing, and shelter) by interpreting pictures. 3.1.2 HG
African
Hats - A salute to African headdresses. Click on the word Objects on the left
, then click on each hat.
Human Needs - The Nine
Basic Human Needs and how they affect people in the workplace.
Japan
- webquest "Welcome to my World" compares culture with American culture.
Mexican
Foods - compare history and culture with American culture.
Water
for Basic Needs - Sift through this site for graphs and data to use with your
students.
Friends and Flags - Global project;
Participants interact in a vibrant online community and exchange cultural packages
sent via post to 2 international partners in their cluster.
Differentiate
the cultural population distribution in the United States using a bar graph. 3.1.3 HG
Exports
and Imports - The thirteen colonies were noted for different exports
Using
a picture, differentiate the difference between a producer and a consumer. 3.2.4 E
Business
Buddies - Students learn the differences between goods and services and producers
and consumers (Author - Laurie Ayers)
Lets
Find a Deal - drag each person to the right column; producer or consumer
Little
Bill the Producer! - This lesson (from EconEd Link) teaches the most basic
vocabulary about production. People who make goods and provide services are called
producers.
Mystery
Workers - review the concepts of goods, services, and producers using the
Internet to locate examples of each in a teacher's classroom
Simple
Simon Met a Pie-Man - a flash video of the classic rhyme, Simple Simon and
the Pie-Man, introduces students to the concepts of consumer and producer.
Simple
Simon Meets a Producer - In this lesson plan (from EconEd Link) students learn
that consumers are the people who buy and use goods and services. Producers make
the goods and provide the services.
We
are Consumers and Producers - In this lesson (from EconEd Link) students learn
how they and family members fulfill the roles of consumers and producers at home
and in their community.
Differentiate
between money and barter economies. 3.2.5 E
Label
Maps at iKnowThat.com - [this link
opens on a new page] Note: this link
takes you to an index of activities. To work on this SPI, select
any of the five entries in the Physical Features section, click
on the green Maybe Later button to go to the activity, and then
select either Puzzle or Labels to begin.
World
Atlas - Click on the continents for more maps.
Use absolute
and relative locations to identify places on a map (i.e., north, south, east,
west, borders, lines of longitude and latitude, the equator, and the north and
south poles.) 3.3.4 PG
Origin
of Compass Rose - Scroll down to the bottom after reading the history for
the key to 32 points of the compass with latitude and longitude readings.
Determine
the climate of a specific region of the world using a map. 3.3.7
PG
Climate
- Learn about the different types of climate and what controls the climate.
Interactive
map - [this link opens on a new page] use the
change theme button at the bottom of the map to select the climate theme.
Recognize
the identifying characteristics of certain geographic features (i.e., peninsula,
islands, continents, mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans, and forests). 3.3.9
PG
Use
a timeline to determine the order of a historical sequence of events. 3.5.2 H
Timelines
- choose from over 100 timelines at Internet4Classrooms
Timelines:
Timeless Teaching Tool - Timeline resources right at your fingertips in this
article from Education World! Included: Activity ideas for teachers of all grades.
Read
and interpret facts from a historical passage. 3.5.3 H
Primary
Documents in American History - The Library of Congress is home to many of
the most important documents in American history. This Web site provides links
to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement
and enhance the study of these crucial documents.
Needs
and Wants - Pictures of needs and wants, a quiz and a short lesson
Wants
and Needs - A Cooperative Learning Lesson - (a lesson plan) Students sort
magazine pictures into Wants and Needs. They will glue the pictures onto the correctly
labeled poster board
Distinguish
between conflict and cooperation within group interactions as represented by pictures. 3.6.2 GC
What's
Your Territory? - [designed for K-2 - adaptable to grade
3 ] In this lesson, students will consider how they, their pets, and their
parents define and defend their personal spaces or territory. They will discuss
the reasons that countries sometimes fight over territories
A World At Peace - "brainstorm the basic rights of people everywhere,
explore in basic terms the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights; use international
photography galleries as part of a multimedia creative writing assignment imagining
a world at peace."
Recognize
major global concerns (i.e., pollution, conservation of natural resources, global
warming, and destruction of rainforest). 3.6.3 HG