CONTENT SESSIONS

BASIC SKILLS

Introduction to Fundamental Themes of Geography: Location, Place, Human Environment Interacation, Movement (Spacial Interaction), and Regional Concept (DL)
Resource(s):
- Fundamental Themes in Geography
- GEOLINKS - database of 1200 lessons searchable by keywords, including the 5 fundamental themes

Social Studies Standards (DL)
- From Geography for Life: The National Geography Standards, 1994
- Minnesota Academic Standards in Social Studies [K-3] [Grades 4-8] [Grade 9-12]*
*Excerpted from Minnesota Department of Education's Minnesota Academic Standards in History and Social Studies

How to Lie With Maps
How to Lie With Maps (Souped Up)

POPULATION PATTERNS AND IMMIGRATION

Population and the Minnesota Geography Standards
- Part I: Historical Geography of International Migration

Population and the Minnesota Geography Standards
- Part II: Immigration to the United States

Worksheet: Spatial Patterning of Immigration (Allen & Turner)
Worksheet: Maps for Racialized Groups in the Twin Cities

Geography of Migration

Immigration Trends in Minnesota (Ronningen)

European Immigrants to Minnesota : Spatial Patterns of Germans, Swedes, Norwegians and Finns, 1880 and 1905

Straits Settlements to World Cities: The Urban Development of the Straits of Malacca

Geopolitics of the South China Sea

NATIVE AMERICAN

Native American Issues in Minnesota (Smith)

Web Resources:
Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/atlas.html

We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/censr-28.pdf

The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-15.pdf

Maps:
American Indians & Alaska Natives
American Indian Lands in MN, 2000
American Indian Populations by County, 2000 and Change in American Indian Population by County, 1990-2000
Reservation and Treaty Areas

CUBA

Cuba Handouts (Trygestad)

Cuba PowerPoint (Trygestad)