GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS:
FROM THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
http://www.ncge.org/publications/tutorial/standards/
THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS:
STANDARD 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.
STANDARD 2: How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments.
STANDARD 3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface.
PLACES AND REGIONS:
STANDARD 4: The physical and human characteristics of places.
STANDARD 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity.
STANDARD 6: How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and regions.
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS:
STANDARD 7: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface.
STANDARD 8: The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface.
HUMAN SYSTEMS:
STANDARD 9: The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface.
STANDARD 10: The characteristics, distributions, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
STANDARD 11: The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface.
STANDARD 12: The process, patterns, and functions of human settlement.
STANDARD 13:
How forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and
control of Earth's
surface.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY:
STANDARD 14: How human actions modify the physical environment.
STANDARD 15: How physical systems affect human systems.
STANDARD 16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
THE USES OF GEOGRAPHY:
STANDARD 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past.
STANDARD 18: To apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.
LT Projects With Material Relevant to the National Education Standards for Geography:
Athena Earth and Space Science for K-12 — Allows students to track drifter buoys in the world's oceans and investigate tropical storms viewed from space. Includes forecasts on today's space weather. Target Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Web Access: http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu:8001/
Bay Area Digital GeoResource — BADGER is an online visualization system for geographic data of the Environmental features, underground services, property lines, municipal zones, census data, and demographic information of the San Francisco Bay Area. Target Grades: General Interest / Research. Web Access: http://badger.parl.com
Earth System Science Community - With ESSC, students and educators learned how to investigate the Earth as a system using the appropriate scientific data, tools, and techniques. Although archived, the web site may be used to supplement existing curricula in Earth and environmental science, physics, chemistry, and beyond. Target Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 UG, G Web Access: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Educ/keeler/ESSCCTestbed/ESSCCTOC.html
Exploring The Environment — this project consists of web-based learning modules that address real environmental dilemmas worldwide. From their computer, students are trained online to use "imaging" software to help them use NASA’s view from space to observe biological, chemical, and geological changes over enormous portions of the earth. This is a project of NASA’s classroom of the future. target grades: k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Web access: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/
FIFE Internet Weather Explorer — This project was designed to provide elementary school students with free multimedia weather lessons. The project is archived, but several tools remain available. Target Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Web Access: http://users.erols.com/tascfes/fife/iwe/iweshock.htm
Gulf of Maine Aquarium — Space Available is unique in its use of information technology. The Web site is used by teachers in all 50 states and 50 foreign countries. The site takes visitors on a virtual trip through the bogs, beaches, and aquifers of Maine. Visitors can also use real-time satellite imagery to study the Gulf of Maine and compare it to other global aquatic environments. Target Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Web Access: http://octopus.gma.org/
Live From Earth and Mars - This project was intended to develop and disseminate educational materials based on real-time and retrospective atmospheric sciences and space sciences data and information in science categories for both Earth and Mars. Space data, graphs, images, and more can be downloaded into the classroom. Target Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Web Access: http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/
TiSDat - These tools are designed to improve agricultural and environmental management decisions using satellite data of farmland. Target Grades: General Interest / research. Web Access: http://www.soils.wisc.edu/nasacan.html