Lesson Plans to Use With the Virtual Tour of Guanajuato
Comparing Where We Live: Students conduct virtual fieldwork in Guanajuato, Mexico and real fieldwork in their own community. Then, they use their observations to compare the houses in the two areas.That's What You Think!: Students use maps and prior knowledge to predict what elements of Guanajuato's cultural landscape will look like. Then, they take the virtual tour to test their predictions.
Lesson IdeasHuman-Environment Interaction in Guanajuato: Students read an article and then write and trade questions to learn about human-environment interaction in Guanajuato.
Mapping and Comparing Routes to School: Students create a map of their route to school. Then, they use the Virtual Tour of Guanajuato to compare the two routes.
Population of Mexico: National Geographic lessons for grades k-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
Teacher LinksEDGE -- University of Oregon's geographic education site. Contains links to geography lesson plans and map sites. Also includes information on their summer master's program designed for classroom teachers.
About Geography -- In my opinion, this is the best and most complete geography site on the Internet.
About Secondary Education -- Lesson plans, teaching strategies, student discipline, rubrics, national certification, national standards, stress relief, and a whole lot more.
Geographic Learning Site -- World geography in the news, lessons, and links by the US State Department.
Washington State's Essential Academic Learning Requirements
National Council for Geographic Education
K-12 Job Postings
Northwest Nazarene University -- My original alma mater's list of job postings for the western United States. Also includes contact information for school districts and links to national job listings.
Washington Education Association -- WEA's list of job openings in Washington.
Learn Spanish in Mexico -- I attended these three language schools in the summer of 2001, and I would recommend them all.
Amigos del Sol in Oaxaca
Academia Falcon in Guanajuato
Center for Languages and Ecotours of Patzcuaro