LESSON PLANS and Classroom Tools
Lesson Plans:
The KGA understands the importance of geographic resources in the classroom, as well as the difficulty of incorporating them. That's why here, we have both created and featured a variety of lesson plans and curriculum ideas to help educators get started.
ELEMENTARY LEVEL WEATHER
Description: This set of three lessons allows elementary level students to learn more about recording and forecasting weather. A posted Word document contains some slight changes to the lessons that help incorporate the Kentucky Mesonet and the National Weather Service, which highlights skills such as scientific data collection, geographic knowledge, and navigating a website. AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Description: In this lesson, students will identify events that shape a culture and identify human features in their own community. Uses the book Talking Walls by Margy Burns Knight, Anne Sibley O'Brien.
Description: In this lesson, students will use a storymap to explore population patterns and economics in the state of Kentucky. Classroom Tools:
On the resources page we have compiled many maps, links, and lesson plans that can be used in the classroom to further geographic learning. If you have a resource that you think should be added to this page please e-mail us!
The KGA understands the importance of geographic resources in the classroom, as well as the difficulty of incorporating them. That's why here, we have both created and featured a variety of lesson plans and curriculum ideas to help educators get started.
ELEMENTARY LEVEL WEATHER
Description: This set of three lessons allows elementary level students to learn more about recording and forecasting weather. A posted Word document contains some slight changes to the lessons that help incorporate the Kentucky Mesonet and the National Weather Service, which highlights skills such as scientific data collection, geographic knowledge, and navigating a website. AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
- Urban Modeling Document
- Urban Modeling PowerPoint
- Population and Development using GIS
- Devolutionary Forces
Description: In this lesson, students will identify events that shape a culture and identify human features in their own community. Uses the book Talking Walls by Margy Burns Knight, Anne Sibley O'Brien.
- Teacher Instructions
- Student Worksheets, Assessment, Answer Keys
- World Maps (Labeled, Unlabeled)
- Instructions with ELL (English Language Learners) Adaptations
Description: In this lesson, students will use a storymap to explore population patterns and economics in the state of Kentucky. Classroom Tools:
On the resources page we have compiled many maps, links, and lesson plans that can be used in the classroom to further geographic learning. If you have a resource that you think should be added to this page please e-mail us!
- KGS-Earth Science Resources
- Geography Sites
- Kentucky in the News
- US Department of Agriculture: Educational Resources / Interactive Map
- ThinkKentucky.com Map Gallery
- Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
- For Kids - iNaturalist
- National Geographic Teaching Resources Home Page
- National Geographic Education Library and Resources
- Kentucky State Park Educational Trips and Activities
- Geocaching State Parks- Breaks Interstate Parks and Lake Cumberland
- More Geocaching in Kentucky
- The Hidden Worlds of National Parks
- KY MESONET: contact kymesonet@wku.edu for KY weather/climate lesson plans or data
- GeoInquires Collections
- Kentucky Story Maps
- Kentucky Maps Galleries and Web Maps
- Cartograms of the World
- Google Earth: Explore Earth
- Harvard University: Center for Geographic Analysis
