ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/lesson/physical-geography-europe/ (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

This is the third of five lessons. Students are introduced to the physical geography of Europe and delineate major drainage basins in Europe.

The overall theme of this teacher-tested unit is using maps to understand borders and their impacts in Europe. The materials will help your students to use maps to think about how borders intersect physical and human geographical features, and how those intersections can lead to cooperation and/or conflict. The educator resources provided in the unit include maps, multimedia, and case studies that will enable students to develop skills in map analysis and apply that analysis to specific situations. Other parts of the unit will invite you and your students to explore similar cases in Europe and your own community.

This is the first of several lessons in the Beyond Borders unit. Why are the borders of countries located in certain places? Students think about regions and borders in an artificial continent, based on a set of physical and cultural features of the area.

Screenshot of the Political Borders activity

The overall theme of this teacher-tested unit is using maps to understand borders and their impacts in Europe. The materials will help your students to use maps to think about how borders intersect physical and human geographical features, and how those intersections can lead to cooperation and/or conflict. The educator resources provided in the unit include maps, multimedia, and case studies that will enable students to develop skills in map analysis and apply that analysis to specific situations. Other parts of the unit will invite you and your students to explore similar cases in Europe and your own community.

Students compare maps to explore relationships between high and low population density, transportation corridors, climate, and land cover in the United States. Students will be able to:

• create a thematic map showing population density in the United States
• describe the patterns on the thematic map and the reasons for them
• compare two thematic maps and recognize relationships between different layers of information

Screenshot of Population Density in the United States Lesson

Source: Spelling: List of Lessons and Practice Exercises (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

The author of this site was frustrated with the available materials used to teach spelling, so she and her co-workers developed lessons and exercises that addressed some of the basic rules of spelling. These are totally printable, so you can use them in non-computerized settings. The lesson suggested here is the one on "s" word endings. In Section 1 you will see a link to the lesson.

Source: Periodic Table with Links to Videos (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students watch a short video about an element and report its properties to the rest of the class. There are videos for all 118 elements. All of these videos were created by video journalist, Brady Haran, and feature chemists from the University of Nottingham. In these videos, the elements come to life and become a meaningful learning experience.