Geography Awareness Week

Celebrate Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week (November 16-22) is just around the corner. Celebrate by taking your students on a virtual whirlwind tour of the world with the Geography Awareness Week Web site. Dive into a range of geo-activities all designed to engage kids in exploring their world while they become more informed global citizens. Take a virtual geo-tour of global hotspots including the Arctic, coral reefs, and the Amazon rain forest. Explore Earth's marine ecosystems as you pilot an underwater vehicle. Hear from young people living and working around the world. Download free activities for your classrooms and communities. Celebrate Geography Awareness Week and see the world in new ways!

Great Resources from NHPTV

KNOW IT ALL
November 7 from 5:15-5:30 a.m. and November 8 from 3:30-5:30 a.m.KNOW IT ALL helps students develop research skills by providing real-life issues and problems that students might encounter in their daily lives. In the series teachers, media specialists, administrators and others collaborate to help students use a basic four-step process to deal with these issues and problems by asking the questions: What Do I Want to Know?; Where Can I Find It?; How Can I Use It?; and How Did I Do? Each lesson focuses on only one step in the process, using various information processing skills in conjunction with different curriculum areas.

INTO THE BOOK
November 5 from 5:00-5:30 a.m. and November 7 from 3:30-5:15 a.m. Join a group of ordinary students using powerful learning strategies to enter the world of the story. Each episode shows students how they can use these strategies when reading fiction, nonfiction, or everyday text. Each episode focuses on a specific reading strategy and shows several different ways that learners use the strategy to increase their enjoyment and understanding of the text. Viewers even get into a student’s imagination for a clever insight into the strategy at work. A complete curriculum resource including interactive online components, teacher’s guide, and printable graphics are also available at the INTO THE BOOK website.

Thanksgiving lessons

Learn the truth about the "First Thanksgiving." This is a great web site developed by Plimouth Plantation.

http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html

There's a great teacher's guide too. http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/hpteachg.html


Myth and Truth: The “First Thanksgiving”

Overview
Did the Wampanoag bring the pilgrims popcorn on the first Thanksgiving, as some versions of the story would suggest? Or is that just a myth? Behind every myth are many possible truths allowing us to discover who we were as peoples and who we are today. By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the "first Thanksgiving," this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=65

This one fits with our students need to learn to interpret charts.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp025.shtml