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Activities to learn how the environment, people and places all affect each other.

This provides a list of ways to protect the environment.

Nichole, This site has a lot of great ideas on protecting the environment.

The world in spatial terms

This site has a ton of really cool links to help students in the area of People, Places and Environment. Check it out!

Students discuss merchants located in their community. Then students choose a local business to write a letter to.

Biographies for Kids,Famous Leaders for Young Readers, biographies of famous people written for elementary age children

This is a great site that offers so much information about many people in our history. Students can look up famous people and learn about who they were and more.

Curriculum related to places in Minnesota developed by students in a K-8 teacher licensure program at Bemidji State University.

Curriculum related to places in Minnesota developed by students in a K-8 teacher licensure program at Bemidji State University.

Ideas related to people in U.S.History

"There is no single objective way to describe why an artifact is significant to a culture. Objects are important to different people for different reasons. To make this idea personal, students will be invited to bring to class important cultural artifacts from their own lives. Each object will be "interpreted" by a student anthropologist who will make hypotheses regarding the importance of this object. The student anthropologist will also determine what this artifact says about the culture of the owner. The owner of the artifact will get a chance to tell their actual story."

Scholastic's Global Trek is a way for students to travel around the world without ever having to leave their classroom. When students arrive in the country of their choice they are supplied with a suggested travel itinerary. This itinerary offers them links to background information and a chance to read about the country's people.

This site has units and lesson plans on: Lewis and Clark preparing for the trip, politics, mapping, women, animals, language, trade and property, plants. There is a section on exploring and using primary and secondary sources.

Has many lessons and is helpful in determining which standards the lessons will address

Students will analyze how the 50 State Quarters Program represents both the diversity and unity of the United States. They will identify human and physical geographic characteristics of Roman culture from Roman coins and examine how Roman emperors used coins to help unify their empire.

This site offers great lesson plans, games, projects and many other neat tools for teachers to use in the classroom and for students to explore on their own.

A site that is full of fun information and activities for elementary students when working on a unit about Colonial times.

Nice visuals and narrative line to weave these facts about colonial life together!

The actual document that sent almost 120,000 people of Japanese decent to camps in the U.S.

This website is filled with articles on the history, geography, culture, and the enviroment around the Mississippi River.

A detailed summary of the expedition including photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals.

Great pictures of the earth that have been taken both in the past and present. This website also provides articles about different parts of the world.

I am going to bring this site in for our Science teacher to use as she is talking about the earth to 1st graders-thanks. Great pictures on there.

This website has information on Past population growth and future population growth. Students can find out what forces are responsible for the world's human population. Students can learn from models of future human population growth.