Lessons and Worksheets: Economic Development

Lessons & Worksheets: Best Locations for a Proposed Golf Resort

Update: Fixed broken QR Code. 9/15/18 6:02am If you’re eager to show your students how GIS is applied to real jobs and the real world, this is a great story […]

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VIDEOS & LESSONS: C-Span Classroom by APHG Unit

Monday morning? No lesson plan? Try C-Span Classroom . What a mini gold mine this resource is! I had no idea C-Span Classroom existed until Julie W. posted it onto […]

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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Human Development Index: Map Coloring Book Pages

If you’ve never checked out the annual United Nation’s Human Development Index Report, it is a rather fun report to skim through. Check out the 2019 report here. I finally […]

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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: 198 Country Digital One-Pager Templates

Expose your students to 198 countries through independent research using digital case studies. Each digital one-pager is itching for your students to complete. Included on each page are the seven […]

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LESSON PLAN: Mapping Hoteling and Lösch – A Competition

OBJECTIVE: Students will show competency of Losch and Hoteling’s agglomeration models using their respective local geographies. MATERIALS: Tablets or computers to access Google My Maps; or two paper maps of […]

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INTERACTIVES: Esri Geoinquiries

As you get more comfortable and efficient with teaching content, you might find more time for enrichment activities. As the company Esri puts it, “Esri’s GIS mapping software is the […]

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LESSON PLAN: Elements of a Good One-Pager Activity

I had the good fortune of someone being kind enough to haul my monstrous poster presentation of student work over to the Duke Convention center for the AP Human Geography […]

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ARTICLE via Newsweek: Alabama has the Worst Poverty in the Developed World, U.N. Official Says

Human Imprint: This short article could be presented at the beginning of the year to have kids conduct a Why of Where investigation into the reason for Alabama’s poverty, and it’s […]

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LESSON PLAN: Diverted to Delhi Documentary & Video Guide

The synopsis provided by ABC TV Documentary: Diverted to Delhi looks at the Indian call centre phenomenon. It looks at how India, with no tradition of customer service, trains call centre workers to provide quality service to overseas customers. It follows university graduates attending two training courses. The graduates employed by Delhi’s cal centres have to put aside their cultural identity, modify their accent and change their name so they can converse with international customers. Most of the call centre business comes from USA and Britain but Australian interest in India is growing and an Australian training course is up and running, where Indians are introduced to the Australian vernacular courtesy of The Castle on video, It’s only a matter of time before tens of thousands of Indians will be saying “g’day mate” when they answer the phone.

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RESOURCE: Almaz’s Story-Human Trafficking, Slave Labor

Human Imprint: This is a short, illustrated story based upon real events.  Topics: Modern slave labor, human trafficking, migrant workers Source: BBC News  

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