LESSONS

This page provides a broad overview of all the lessons available through this web site.  The top matrix includes the exercise name and the author with a link to the lesson plan.  The second matrix relates the lesson to the State of Alabama Course of Study requirements and also contains a link to the lesson plan.

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If you have any comments or would like to add a lesson to the web page, please e-mail Lisa Keys Mathews at the Department of Geography (University of North Alabama).
 

The Tennessee River: The Tie That Binds
(Micki McWilliams)
Oil:  The Problem or Solution to the World's Economic Future
(Anne Bickley)
Cities, Cities, Anywhere
(Chris Sherrill)
Wow!  You're Eating Geography
(Delilah Forsyth)
Crude Conversation
(Tonise A. Partridge)
Cooling Off the South
(Timothy R. Wood)
We're Interconnected? Beep-Beep
(Michele Banister)
Who's the Boss?
(Sherri Ridgeway)
The Fabric of Our World
(Lou Anne Underwood)
India and Pakistan:  Rivals from Birth
(Manya Wood)
Oceania:  Pacific Palaces
(Bobbie Shelton)
The Environmental Explorer
(Jill Conner)
Plantations, Port Cities, and Governmental Centers:  Why Here and Not Over There?
(Kevin Morrow)
Time for a Change
(Belinda Whitfield)
Rain Forests:  A Disappearing Act?
(Jane Emerson)
And the Rains Came Down:  A South American Rainforest
(Beth Doucette)
Discover the Rainforest
(Anita Johnson)
Three Gorges Dam:  Will China Sink or Swim?
(Jefferey D. Horn) 
Geography, Energy, and the Twenty-First Century
(Susan Hughes)
From Mules to Deere
(Paula McGee)
Urban and Agricultural Settlements:  Why are They There?
(Robert Poff)
 Mental Maps
(Priscilla Holland)
Site vs. Situation:  Location!  Location!  Location!
(Angelia Mance)
What Makes This Land so Special?
(Pat Cleino)
Where is the World is Muscle Shoals and Vance Alabama?
(Faye Swinney)
Timbuktu:  A Center of  Trade
(Kathy Rodgers)
Where in the World Am I?
(Amanda Smith)
What's In a Name?
(Rebecca Holt Bailey)
Ecosystems in the Wetlands
(Nanette Fairley)
El Nino
(Angelia Mance)
United States' Cities with High Population:  The Common Thread 
( Joely Hampton) 
Where is Everybody?
(Paige Turner) 
What's In A Name?
(Melanie Gerrard)
 From Sea to Shining Sea:   The Highs and Lows of Life in America 
(Joy A. Volpi)
Where, Oh Where are the Resources?
Paige Turner
Human Impacts on Major Rivers of the World 
(Brenda H. Webb)
Trembling, Spewing Earth:  Impacts on Human Activity
(Brenda H. Webb)
Topographic Connections:  Earth's Surface Shapes Streams; Streams Sculpt the Earth
(Brenda H. Webb)
Introducing Topographic Maps:  Guiding Students from Concrete Models to Graphic Representation
(Brenda H. Webb)
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ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY
LESSONS MATRIX
This matrix is arranged so that, with a quick glance, a teacher should be able to match Alabama Course of Study Standards with a lesson that concentrates on that standard.

LESSONS
THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS
PLACES AND REGIONS
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
HUMAN SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
USES OF GEOGRAPHY
 
1-4
5-10 
11-14 
15-21 
22-27 
28-32 
 The Tennessee River: The Tie That Binds
3
 7
 
 
 
 
 Oil:  The Problem or Solution to the World's Economic Future
 
 
 
 17
26
 
 Cities, Cities, Anywhere
 
 
 14
 
 22
 
 Wow!  You're Eating Geography
2
 
 
17 
 
 
 Crude Conversation
 
 
 
 
 27
 30, 32
 Cooling Off the South
 
10
14 
 
23 
 
 We're Interconnected? Beep-Beep
2
 
 
17, 19 
 
 
 Who's the Boss?
2, 3
 
 
 
 
 
The Fabric of Our World
 
 
 
15, 16 
 
 
 India and Pakistan:  Rivals from Birth
 
5, 6, 10
 
21
 
 
 Oceania:  Pacific Palaces
 
 
13 
 
24 
 
 The Environmental Explorer
 
 7
12, 14
 
 
28 
 Plantations, Port Cities, and Governmental Centers:  Why Here and Not Over There?
 
 
 
18, 20 
 
 
 Time for a Change
 
 
 
 
23 
 
 Rain Forests:  A Disappearing Act?
 
5, 7
14
 
 
 
 And the Rains Came Down:  A South American Rainforest
  
7, 12
 
 
 
 
 Discover the Rainforest
 3
 5
13 
 
 
 
 Three Gorges Dam:  Will China Sink or Swim?
 
7
 
17 
 
30 
 Geography, Energy, and the Twenty-First Century
 
 
 
 
22 
30
 From Mules to Deere
 
10
 
 17
 
  
 Urban and Agricultural Settlements:  Why are They There?
2
 
 
 20
 
 
 Mental Maps
 
8
 
20
 
 
 Site vs. Situation:  Location!  Location!  Location!
  
5, 8
11
17 
 
 
 What Makes This Land so Special?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Where is the World is Muscle Shoals and Vance Alabama?
 
 
 
17, 19
 
 
 Timbuktu:  A Center of  Trade
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Where in the World Am I?
 
 6, 8
 
 
 
 
 What's In a Name?
 
 9
 
 14
 
 
 Ecosystems in the Wetlands
 
 
13, 14
 
 24
 
 El Nino
 2
 5
 12
 
 
 
 United States' Cities with High Population:  The Common Thread 
 
 5, 8
 
 
 
28 
 Where is Everybody?
2
6 
 
15
 
 
 What's In A Name?
 
9
 
 16
 
 
 From Sea to Shining Sea:   The Highs and Lows of Life in America
2, 3
5
 
 
 
 
 Where, Oh Where are the Resources?
 
 5
13, 14 
 
 
 
 Human Impacts on Major Rivers of the World 
3
7 
 
 
 
 
 Trembling, Spewing Earth:  Impacts on Human Activity
 
 
 
 
24, 25 
 
 Topographic Connections:  Earth's Surface Shapes Streams; Streams Sculpt the Earth
 
 
 11
 
 
 
Introducing Topographic Maps:  Guiding Students from Concrete Models to Graphic Representation
1
8
11
      
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Created by Lisa Keys Mathews on 7/7/98.  Last revision on 10/5/98.  lkm