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World Population And Food Distribution, Matt Hoodjer Jan 2012

World Population And Food Distribution, Matt Hoodjer

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Students will be able to identify what parts of the world are and are not heavily populated. Students will be able to identify the regions of the world with a scarce food supply. Students will be able to propose strategies to correct the imbalance of the world food distribution.

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West Creek Development Osae, Jeff Firsching Jan 2012

West Creek Development Osae, Jeff Firsching

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Students will work cooperatively to speculate on the changes humans have made to transform farm fields into a housing development and what the consequences of those changes could be.

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Where In The World Are You?, Carri Sawyer Jan 2012

Where In The World Are You?, Carri Sawyer

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Students will be able to locate a destination given the latitude and longitude.

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What Makes A Healthy (Or Unhealthy) Nation?, Jesse Dowell Jan 2012

What Makes A Healthy (Or Unhealthy) Nation?, Jesse Dowell

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Identify and investigate the cultural, economic, and political factors that contribute to a nation’s health and well-being.

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Mystery Class Sites: Adapted From Journey North Mystery Class, Jan Hill, Anne Hoeper, Lori Stephens Jan 2012

Mystery Class Sites: Adapted From Journey North Mystery Class, Jan Hill, Anne Hoeper, Lori Stephens

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Students will know how sunrise and sunset times can be used to discover exact locations.

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Nasir, A Bangladesh Driver, Jane Watson Jan 2012

Nasir, A Bangladesh Driver, Jane Watson

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Students will have an understanding of the work life of a Bangladesh worker. Students will have an understanding of the different types of transportation in Bangladesh. Students will have a beginning understanding of the economic differences between the USA and the developing country of Bangladesh.

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Making Maps With Population Data, Tami Huegel Jan 2012

Making Maps With Population Data, Tami Huegel

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Students will create choropleth maps using the 3 methods of equal frequency, equal interval, and natural breaks. Students will compare the 3 maps for accuracy and bias. Students will analyze the maps and develop hypotheses about population to plan for the future.

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Lake Mills O.S.A.E. Land Mark And Business Field Walk, Angie Boehmer Jan 2012

Lake Mills O.S.A.E. Land Mark And Business Field Walk, Angie Boehmer

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Students will create a map of Lake Mills that accurately includes local landmarks and area businesses using the O.S.A.E. strategy.

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Living In A Lungi, Dawn Brown Jan 2012

Living In A Lungi, Dawn Brown

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Students will be able to describe, make, and wear traditional Bangladeshi male attire. Students will be able to sew French stitches on cotton fabric.

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Sudan And South Sudan: Colonialism, Conflict, And The Growing Pains Of A New Nation, Amy Jones Jan 2012

Sudan And South Sudan: Colonialism, Conflict, And The Growing Pains Of A New Nation, Amy Jones

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Students will understand the concept of colonialism by comparing and contrasting America with Africa's colonial rule. Students will discover how this often contributes to contemporary conflict by igniting cultural differences. Sudan and South Sudan are used to illustrate contemporary conflict that is in part based upon the effects of a history of colonialism.

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Tracking Flat Stanley, Jennifer Hardee Jan 2012

Tracking Flat Stanley, Jennifer Hardee

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Students will use Google Earth to locate the places Flat Stanley visits and record the absolute location of each place.

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Tin Mining On The Jos Plateau, Natasha Cooper Jan 2012

Tin Mining On The Jos Plateau, Natasha Cooper

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Students will understand the history of tin mining on the Jos Plateau. Students will be able to apply information and brainstorm as they construct a poster on the positive and negative consequences of tin mining.

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Understanding Conflict And Genocide In The Former Yugoslavia, Traci Lake Jan 2012

Understanding Conflict And Genocide In The Former Yugoslavia, Traci Lake

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Students will know: the causes of conflict, the definition of genocide, the causes of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, what action has been taken to recover from genocide in the former Yugoslavia. Students will be able to: identify sources of conflict in other parts of the world and analyze the role geography plays in those conflicts, determine the responses that were made to the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and formulate a plan about what should have been done differently to prevent/lessen the severity of the conflict, analyze the current situation in the former Yugoslavia and how the past plays …

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Virtual Vacation, Traci Lake Jan 2012

Virtual Vacation, Traci Lake

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Students will determine criteria used to choose travel locations and use reasoning to explain how their choices fit these criteria. Students will use Google Earth to determine a travel itinerary and route of transport, identifying important human and physical features. Students will use Google Earth technology to create a tour in which to map and measure their travel.

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Getting To Know You And Others, Anne Hoeper, Natasha Cooper, Kathy Sundstedt Jan 2012

Getting To Know You And Others, Anne Hoeper, Natasha Cooper, Kathy Sundstedt

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Students will be aware of similarities and differences in the lives of teens living in the United States and Nigeria.

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How Humans Are Creating Desertification In Africa, Casey Conover Jan 2012

How Humans Are Creating Desertification In Africa, Casey Conover

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Students will describe the process of desertification and brainstorm ideas on how to help the problem.

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Creating Detail In The Settling Of A Short Story Using Geography, Deborah Vroom Jan 2012

Creating Detail In The Settling Of A Short Story Using Geography, Deborah Vroom

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Students will be able to create a short story, rich in detail and set in another area other than Mt. Pleasant, Iowa or the United States.

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Scrubbing The Skunk, Tim Sheeley Jan 2012

Scrubbing The Skunk, Tim Sheeley

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Students will be able to identify and locate latitude and longitude coordinates using a GPS unit.

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Should I Wear This Or That?, Jennifer Slagel Jan 2012

Should I Wear This Or That?, Jennifer Slagel

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The students will be more aware of where they buy their clothing and what effect it has on the people who make it.

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Was China's One Child Policy A Good Idea?, Brittany Roberts Jan 2012

Was China's One Child Policy A Good Idea?, Brittany Roberts

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Students will examine both sides of the one-child policy debate and examine consequences of the law.

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What's In A Name?: "Oruko Lonro Ni" Which Means "Names Affect Behavior", Anne Hoeper Jan 2012

What's In A Name?: "Oruko Lonro Ni" Which Means "Names Affect Behavior", Anne Hoeper

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Students will be aware that Yoruba people believe the name a child bears can influence his/her behavior; therefore, the names given to a child in Nigeria are chosen for their meaning.

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Hotel Rwanda, Jenni Levora Jan 2012

Hotel Rwanda, Jenni Levora

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Students will be able to understand the impact of European colonization on African countries; analyze the film Hotel Rwanda (the context of the genocide and the archetypes in Paul Rusesabagina's character); understand the historical context of the Rwandan genocide; understand the psychological, sociological, and historical causes of genocides.

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Human Rights Violations In Wwii, Dan Kauble Jan 2012

Human Rights Violations In Wwii, Dan Kauble

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By breaking into five groups representing one of five nations (US, USSR, UK, Japan, or Germany) who fought in World War II, researching two events in which their nation violated one of the human rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and then presenting their findings to their classmates with maps and photos, students will not only learn about human rights and WWII but also come away with a greater understanding of the geography of the conflict.

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Plastic Bags Contest - Bangladesh Vs. Usa, Jane Watson Jan 2012

Plastic Bags Contest - Bangladesh Vs. Usa, Jane Watson

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Students will have an understanding of the environmental issues concerning plastic bags. Students will discover that some developing countries including Bangladesh are more environmentally proactive than the USA in reducing plastic bags.

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Population Pyramids, Anne Hoeper Jan 2012

Population Pyramids, Anne Hoeper

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Students will be aware of population growth in India compared to the United States.

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People On The Move, Noel Hansen, Allison Hendrickson Jan 2012

People On The Move, Noel Hansen, Allison Hendrickson

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Students will be able to define the movement terms: internal displaced person, refugee, and migrant. Students will be able to categorize simulated situations (skits performed by the teachers) of people on the move. Students will be able to identify real-life situations using the terms.

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Future Fire Regimes Of Australian Ecosystems: New Perspectives On Enduring Questions Of Management, Ross A. Bradstock, Richard J. Williams, A Malcolm Gill Jan 2012

Future Fire Regimes Of Australian Ecosystems: New Perspectives On Enduring Questions Of Management, Ross A. Bradstock, Richard J. Williams, A Malcolm Gill

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

This book provides a contemporary overview of the state of knowledge of fire as a shaper of biodiversity and ecosystems in Australia, along with insights into the way in which a 'flammable Australia' may fare under future climate change. It comes at the end of a decade (2000 to 2010) of extraordinary fire activity in Australia, matched by heightened public interest in fire and debate about its management. The decade commenced with major fire activity between 2000 and 2002 in the central and north western deserts (Nano et al. 2012, Chapter 9), at scales not seen in decades. In the …

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Instructing, Constructing, Deconstructing: The Embodied And Disembodied Performances Of Yoko Ono, Vera Mackie Jan 2012

Instructing, Constructing, Deconstructing: The Embodied And Disembodied Performances Of Yoko Ono, Vera Mackie

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Modernism has been described as 'either a time-bound or a genre-bound art form'. In generic terms, modernist art has been described as 'experimental,formally complex, elliptical, contain[ing] elements of decreation as well as creation, and tend[ing] to associate notions of the artist's freedom from realism, materialism, traditional genre and form.... . Modernist art forms have further been described as those which are '.... aesthetically radical, contain striking technical innovation, emphasize spatial or "fugal" as opposed to chronological form, ten towards ironic modes, and involve a certain "dehumanization" of art'. Modernist art deploys the techniques of montage, collage, mixed-media assemblages, genre-crossing, generic …

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Truth, Perspectivism, And Philosophy, David I. Simpson Jan 2012

Truth, Perspectivism, And Philosophy, David I. Simpson

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In Nietzsche's later work the problem of the possibility of philosophy presents a significant interpretative and practical dilemma. Nietzsche attempts to undermine the idea of the absolute, as a source of value, meaning and truth, and to tease out the traces of this idea in our philosophising. He is thus one of those who has given us the means to complete the Kantian project of moving beyond metaphysical realism and a representational understanding of meaning. However, along with the gift comes a paradox. For Nietzsche's diagnosis seems to make it clear that desire for the absolute is intrinsic to the …

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La Enseñanza De La Pronunciacion Del Castellano A Aprendices Irlandeses. Contrastes Dialectales De Interés, Alfredo Herrero De Haro, M Antonieta Andión Herrero Jan 2012

La Enseñanza De La Pronunciacion Del Castellano A Aprendices Irlandeses. Contrastes Dialectales De Interés, Alfredo Herrero De Haro, M Antonieta Andión Herrero

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This paper deals with the teaching of Spanish pronunciation to Irish students. If we want learners to achieve a good command of the sounds of Castilian Spanish, we must focus on the phonetic/phonological distance between English and Spanish; however, it is the phonetic/phonological distance between the regional variety of the L1 of the speaker and Castilian Spanish (the variety that we adopt as the target model) that will have the biggest influence in this learning process. After comparing linguistic peculiarities of the English language (RP), and of the variety of the Republic of Ireland, with those of Castilian Spanish, we …

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