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Questions or comments about this resource? Contact eThemes@more.net Printer-friendly version Please preview all links before sharing in class with students. Resource Information Title Geography: Midwest Region of the United States Description These sites focus on the states in the Midwest. Learn more about the history, land, economy, industries, and animals of this region. Includes many photographs plus statistics that can be graphed. The following states are included: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Also has links to eThemes Resources on the West, South and Northeast. Grade Level Performance Standards Knowledge Standards Resource Links Link ID: Title: U.S. States Description: Click on a state to learn more about it including the history, symbols, population, and famous people. URL: http://www.infoplease.com/states.html Link ID: Title: The Official U.S. Time Description: See the official time for each of the different time zones in the United States. Click on a region to check the time. URL: http://www.time.gov/

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Download Free RealPlayer Videos Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage Each of the 18 videos focuses on a single topic and lasts approximately 10-15 minutes. The videos feature documentary film footage, images of and spoken words from primary sources, reenactments of historical events and people, footage of historical sites and interviews with experts. The narration is designed to appeal to upper elementary and middle school students. Need RealPlayer? Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage videos are offered as streamed video. Download free RealOne Player Tips and Troubleshooting Hints Find tips about how to use RealPlayer effectively and basic troubleshooting information Videos Title MO History Units U.S. History Units Introduction 53 minutes - background for teachers The Lay of the Land (Elephant Rocks State Park) 9:23 MO geography, regions U.S. regions The Ancient Ones (Miller Cave) 13:00 MO prehistory Native Americans, Europeans arrive, prehistory A Meeting of Cultures (Ste. Genevieve) 9:46 Early settlements, French settlement, Europe discovers MO

45. Geography community as geographic phenomena, relating the classification, distribution, function,structure, and growth of cities. SEMINAR IN kansas geography 13 HRS. http://www.emporia.edu/grad/geocou.htm

GEOGRAPHY GE 515. URBAN GEOGRAPHY 3 HRS. A study of the urban community as geographic phenomena, relating the classification, distribution, function, structure, and growth of cities. 4 84 515 4507 01 GE 525. RURAL GEOGRAPHY 3 HRS. Concerned with the geographic or spatial analysis of rural environments. It offers the student an opportunity to examine the characteristics of rural land-use and settlement patterns. The course will also treat regional variations and trends in the nature and use of rural areas. 4 84 525 4507 01 GE 540. SPECIAL TOPICS IN GEOGRAPHY 1-3 HRS. Investigations into selected areas of Geography. GE 542. MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST 2 HRS. A regional survey of the physical, economic, and cultural patterns of the Middle East and Mediterranean world. Emphasis on the historical, physical, and cultural unity of the Moslem and arid characteristics evidenced within the region. 4 84 542 4507 01 GE 555. AFRICA 3 HRS. A regional survey of the physical and cultural features of the continent of Africa with special emphasis on contemporary historical development and the problems and prospects for economic development. 4 84 555 4507 01

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Geography Sites "KOOL" KANSAS! Learn neat things about this fine state we live in. Take a look to the right and 'surf the amber waves'! http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/home.html GeoKansas , a place to learn about Kansas geology. http://www.accesskansas.org/governor/kids_seal.html Everything you wanted to know about the Great Seal of Kansas http://www.rainbowtel.net/~harland/kstour.htm Want to know what Big Brutus is? Check out Kansas Photo Tour . This site has a map of Kansas that will take you to various interesting places in Kansas. http://www.kshs.org/kids/ Kansas State Historical Society has links just for kids. http://www.manhattan.lib.ks.us/childrens/kansite.html The Manhattan Public Library also has a variety of sites to visit about the state of Kansas http://skyways.lib.ks.us/poetry/ Poetry of Kansas shares... what else, poetry. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/Ref/GovDocs/Kan/symbols.html Learn about the Symbols of Kansas http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/ Beginning in 1854, charitable institutions in New York City began sending orphans on trains to the west to find new families, feeling that the children would fare better out west than on the streets of New York. Orphan trains arrived in Kansas between 1867 and 1930, and some 5000-6000 children were placed in Kansas homes....learn about it here on Orphan Trains of Kansas http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/findtown.html

47. Reference Department cities and Towns kansas KS Vertical File. Trails KS Vertical File. Topof Page. geography, Web Sites kansas geography http//www.kidport.com/RefLib http://skyways.lib.ks.us/library/leavenworth/refdept/KShis2.html

Home Reference Department Reference Services Reference Links ... Contact Us Subject Bibliographies More LVPL Sites Library Story Services and Policies News and Events Friends of the LVPL Patrons of the LVPL Disabled Services Guide to Kansas History on the Internet and in the Vertical File at the Leavenworth Public Library Introduction This guide is designed to give patrons an introduction to materials available on the Internet and in the files maintained at the Leavenworth Public Library on Kansas history and related topics. The guide is divided into eight subject areas with web sites listed on the left and vertical files subject headings listed to the right. Vertical files include the vertical file in the Kansas Room devoted to Kansas history and the Kansas Government Documents file. Subject headings from the Kansas Room vertical file will have the notation [KS Vertical File] next to them. Subject headings in the Kansas Government Documents file will have the notation [KS Gov Docs] next to them. As always, if you need help or have any questions, please feel free to ask the staff. Pioneers Native Americans Railroads Cowboys ... Art Pioneers Web Sites Kansas Historic Trials http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/

48. ProTeacher! Fifty United States Lesson Plans For Elementary School Teachers In G A printable packet of activities about the history and geography of the kansas Wordsearch Students find names of kansas cities on a printable puzzle source. http://www.proteacher.com/090118.shtml

[Click Here] to search tens of thousands of ideas on ProTeacher's new Teaching Ideas Archive Social Studies Geography Fifty States ... Lessons By State Kansas Kansas Day Lesson Plans - A collection of interdisciplinary lessons categorized by grade level for teaching about the heritage of the state of Kansas source Kansas Rivers - Students learn about the major rivers of Kansas, the directions they flow, and their tributaries. Printable blackline maps are included source Kansas Summer Geography Institute - A collection of lesson plans integrating social studies, math, science, and literature about Kansas and its reliance on water for life source Kansas Unit - A printable packet of activities about the history and geography of the state of Kansas source Kansas Flag - A printable worksheet with a blackline flag to color, information, and comprehension questions source Kansas Map Quiz - A printable, blackline Kansas map skills worksheet source Kansas Symbols - Printable worksheets about Kansas. Students learn about state symbols, match the sunflowers, read Kansas facts, and color the state flag source Kansas Wordsearch - Students find names of Kansas cities on a printable puzzle source Seal of the Teriitory of Kansas - A printable coloring page of the 1854 Kansas Territory Seal source Enter your E-MAIL ADDRESS to receive periodic news and announcements from your ProTeacher Community.

49. Geography 50 AC, Walker Black middle class geography and WJ Wilson's underclass Industrial development passesthe old cities by East Bay U of kansas Press Crouchett, Lawrence, Lonnie http://www-learning.berkeley.edu/AC/archive/syllabi/Geog50AC_Walker20.html

The American Cultures Archive 1954). Fair Employment Act 1959 (lost first effort) and Open Housing Act (1963). City councils: Berkeley 1961, Oakland 1964. White counterattack: Postwar 'Negro Removal' efforts. Western Addition (Fillmore) and West Oakland and wartime housing (Berkeley, Richmond). White flight and the white noose around the ghettoes: San Leandro, Pinole, San Mateo County, Marin. Prop. 14: anti-open housing (1964). Reagan rides into Sacramento. SF State and Hiyakawa. Bakke: anti-affirmative action (1978). Once more into the breach: Regents of UC and CCRI (1995-96). Cross class alliances among Afr-Americans. White-black alliances. Berkeley-Oakland electoral connection: e.g. Rumford, Dellums. Afr-American culture and 'White Negroes' of Beat era. Civil Rights era boycotts and freedom riders. Model Cities and West Oakland Plng Council. Black Panthers and White Students Black power, black pride, black nationalism. Booker Washington, Garvey, Malcolm X, etc. Karenga (e.g. Kwanza) vs. Panthers in California. FBI snuffs the Panthers. Black Studies at Merritt, SFState and UCB. Why two riots in LA? North vs. south, revisited. LA's political blockage. Defeat of public housing in 40s. Yorty in 1960s. LAPD out of control. Watts Rebellion. McCone Committee versus Douglas Commission. Westside LA and Bradley (1973). Bradley cuts a deal (1977).

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Hotels USA Kansas Click on a city below to display a list of local hotels. Each hotel has real-time pricing so you can see all available rates and book your reservations online. Abilene Garden City Lenexa Parsons ... Park City KANSAS - Geography Midwestern state occupying the center of the coterminous United States. It is bordered by Missouri (E), Oklahoma (S), Colorado (W), and Nebraska (N). Almost rectangular in shape and mostly part of the Great Plains , Kansas is famous for its seemingly endless fields of ripe golden wheat. The land rises more than 3,000 ft (914 m) from the eastern alluvial prairies of Kansas to its western semiarid high plains, which stretch toward the foothills of the Rocky Mts. The rise is so gradual, however, that it is imperceptible, although the terrains of the east and the west are markedly different. The state is drained by the Kansas and Arkansas rivers, both of which generally run from west to east. Topeka is the capital; other important cities are Wichita (the largest city in the state), Lawrence, and Kansas City (adjoining Kansas City, Mo.). Points of historical interest in Kansas include the boyhood home of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eisenhower Library in Abilene. In Medicine Lodge is the home of Carry Nation, who, at the turn of the century, became convinced of her divine appointment to destroy the saloons; her home there is now a museum. Fort Leavenworth is the site of a large Federal penitentiary.

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vJSLevel = "../" document.writeln(navigation); estimates geography boundary changes census population estimates ... text menu For what geographic areas does the Census Bureau produce estimates? In addition to the Nation, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, PEP produces estimates for census regions and divisions, counties and equivalents, incorporated places, minor civil divisions, consolidated cities, and metropolitan areas. Census Regions and Divisions Counties (and equivalents) Minor Civil Divisions Legally defined county subdivisions are referred to as minor civil divisions (MCDs.) MCDs are the primary divisions of a county. They comprise both governmentally functioning entities that is, those with elected officials who provide services and raise revenues and nonfunctioning entities that exist primarily for administrative purposes, such as election districts. Twenty-eight states and Puerto Rico have MCDs. However, the MCDs function as general purpose governmental units in all or part of only twenty states. Within these twenty states, PEP produces estimates for all governmentally functioning MCDs and for nonfunctioning MCDs in counties that contain at least one functioning MCD. The legal powers and functions of MCDs vary from state to state. Most of the MCDs in twelve states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin) serve as general-purpose local governments. In the remaining eight states for which PEP produces MCD level estimates (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota) the MCDs, for the most part, perform less of a governmental role and are less well known locally, even though they are active governmental units.

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53. SuccessLink-Great Ideas be used as assessments at the conclusion of a unit teaching about Missouri's geography. Asuggested list of cities is St. Joseph, kansas City, Springfield, St http://www.successlink.org/great/g861.html

Great Teaching Ideas Missouri's Geography Submitted by: Helen McDaniel Washington-Franklin Elementary Farmington R-7 Materials Needed: See each of the Performance Activities (4) for a list of materials. Subject Area: Social Studies Grade Level: Upper Elementary (4) Show Me Standard: SS 5, SS 7 GOAL 1.4, GOAL 1.8, GOAL 2.7 Description: Synopsis: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Missouri's important cities, important rivers, and the geographic regions of Missouri through performance based activities. Implementation: The following four activities may be used as assessments at the conclusion of a unit teaching about Missouri's geography. Performance Activity One: Students will draw an outline map of Missouri on a piece of poster board. Next they will draw the boundaries for the four physical regions of Missouri and locate the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. Various materials will be used to fill in these areas and to denote the path of the rivers. Materials needed by each student: markers pencil poster board (approximately 12" X 14") 1-inch cut squares of colored tissue paper or 1-inch torn squares of scraps of construction paper.

54. GEO World - Jan 2003 - The "G" In GIS: 3-D Geovisualization Is Coming Of Age Virtuality and cities Definitions, Geographies, Designs, Virtual Reality in geography,Fisher, P a research professor at the University of kansas. http://www.geoplace.com/gw/2003/0301/0301gngs.asp

GEO World Links Archives Features Columns Departments ... Editorial Guidelines Current Issue Subscribe THE "G" in GIS 3-D Geovisualization Is Coming of Age T here's something alluring about 3-D geovisualization that goes beyond its inherent utility. But there are many questions. How good is it? How feasible is it with commercial products on the market today? What progress has been made? What breakthroughs are needed? Gee Whiz and Brute Force Traditionally, the appreciation of 3-D geovisualization has come on two distinctly different levels. Not long ago, the principal effect of 3-D presentations lay in their "gee-whiz" visual impact on the uninitiated. There's just something about seeing the world as you would see it in person. "Larry," a 3-D geovisualization of Lawrence, Kan., was built and rendered by geography graduate students at the University of Kansas. Implementation was cumbersome and expensive, however, and 3-D analytical software functions were practically nonexistent. Consequently, no one could afford to do it for more than demo effect. Many efforts sold themselves to sponsors based on mind-blowing demos, only to fail in utter disappointment when sponsors inevitably recognized the limitations.

55. Gateway To The World By Snowhawk Latitude Longitude by cities 50 USA the World Vanishing Cultures WorldSkip geography,culture, news New Castle Life - Indiana kansas Environmental Almanac http://www.snowhawk.com/cultures.html

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56. Geography Of Agriculture - Geography - 02/23/98 geography of Agriculture. which allowed more people to move to the cities as the wheatbelt is identified as crossing the Dakotas, Nebraska, kansas, and Oklahoma http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa022398.htm

zfp=-1 About Homework Help Geography Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Geography with Matt Rosenberg Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS World Atlas and Maps Geography Answers Glossary ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Geography of Agriculture Dateline: 02/23/98 Around ten to twelve thousand years ago, human began to domesticate plants and animals for food. Before this first agricultural revolution, people relied on hunting and gathering to obtain food supplies. While there are still groups of hunters and gatherers in the world, most societies have switched to agriculture. The beginnings of agriculture did not just occur in one place but appeared almost simultaneously around the world, possibly through trail and error with different plants and animals or by long term experimentation. Between the first agricultural revolution thousands of years ago and the 17th century, agriculture remained pretty much the same. In the seventeenth century, a second agricultural revolution took place which increased efficiency of production as well as distribution which allowed more people to move to the cities as the industrial revolution got under way. The 18th century's

57. Vol. 31, No. 24-- Research -- OnCampus, OSU"s Newspaper For Faculty And Staff said Morton O'Kelly, coauthor of the study and professor of geography. cities suchas Portland, Ore. ranked 19th in 2000 and 40th in 1997), kansas City (moved http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/oncampus/v31n24/discoveries.html

July 25 , 2002 Vol. 31, No.24 By Jo McCulty Researcher Morton O'Kelly, professor of geography, has determined which U.S. cities lead in Internet accessibility. Study reveals top 30 connected cities in the U.S. By Jeff Grabmeier, Research Communications With the growth of the digital economy, a "Big 7" of U.S. cities has emerged as leaders in Internet network accessibility, according to a new study. The leading cities, all of which are among the nation's largest, will continue to reap economic benefits because of their telecommunications advantage, researchers say. The Big 7 are, in order, Chicago, Washington, Dallas, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. "The digital economy is built on accessibility to the Internet, and cities that have the most developed Internet infrastructure will have an economic advantage," said Morton O'Kelly, co-author of the study and professor of geography. "Our results indicate that the'Big 7' will probably continue their dominance in network accessibility."

58. African American Odyssey: Reconstruction And Its Aftermath (Part 1) kansas, Including a Plat Book of the Villages, cities, and Townships. Lithographmap. Chicago A. Ogle, 1906. geography and Map Division. (58a), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html

African American Odyssey Introduction Overview Object List Search Exhibit Sections: Slavery Free Blacks Abolition Civil War Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era WWI-Post War The Depression-WWII Civil Rights Era Reconstruction and Its Aftermath Part 1: Forever Free Black Exodus Part 2 The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confrontedthat of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, "For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them." Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for its newly freed black population. The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society. The South, however, saw Reconstruction as a humiliating, even vengeful imposition and did not welcome it. During the years after the war, black and white teachers from the North and South, missionary organizations, churches and schools worked tirelessly to give the emancipated population the opportunity to learn. Former slaves of every age took advantage of the opportunity to become literate. Grandfathers and their grandchildren sat together in classrooms seeking to obtain the tools of freedom.

59. Library Of Congress Learning Page - Read More About It Collections of the Library of Congress, geography and Map of Urban America Lithographsof Towns and cities in the Lawrence University of Press of kansas, 1989 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/book/p.html

The Library of Congress Return to Read More Index Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929 Of general interest: Carnes, Mark C., Garraty, John, and Patrick Williams. Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas . N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Hebert, John R., comp. Panoramic Maps of Anglo-American Cities: A Check list of Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1974. Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1984. Reps, John W. Views and View makers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Works, 1825-1925 . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984. Especially for younger readers: Bacon, Josephine. The Doubleday Atlas of the United States of America . N.Y.: Doubleday, 1990. Knowlton, Jack. . N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1985. Top of Page Learn More About Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929 Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz Of general interest: Gottlieb, William P.

60. An Outline Of American Geography - Chapter 11 An Outline of American geography. MAP. encompassing western portions of Texas, Oklahoma,and kansas, is the growth is concentrated in the larger cities near the http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/geography/geog11.htm

An Outline of American Geography MAP CHAPTER 11 THE GREAT PLAINS AND PRAIRIES T he historian Walter Prescott Webb, in his book The Great Plains , suggested that the northwest Europeans who settled much of the United States faced three great "environmental encounters"areas where climatic conditions were so unlike those of their home region that the agricultural crops and settlement patterns developed in Europe were inappropriate. The first of these encounters was with the high summer temperatures and humidity levels of the Southeast. The second was the arid Southwest and interior West. The third was the great continuous grasslands located astride the center of the country ( Map 10 Among the problems on the grasslands, average annual precipitation was much less than in the East, although violent storms accompanied by high winds, hail, and tornadoes were common. Blizzards with wintry blasts intensifying the cold drove the snow into immense drifts. The hot, dry winds of summer parched the soil and sometimes carried it away in great billowing clouds of dust. The region's sparse natural water supply would not support tree vegetation except along the stream courses. Many of these streams were small and flowed only intermittently. Eastern farmers, accustomed to a plentiful supply of water for crops and animals, as well as ample wood for building, fencing, and heating, had to adapt to quite different conditions in their attempts to settle the Great Plains.

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