World Geography Student TutorialsTexas Essential Knowledge and Skills TEKS - Social Studies

Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A

• Migration and remittances in the 21st Century - depicts where people are migrating to/from and how migrants send money home to their native country. Makes interesting point that people from the poorest countries do not immigrate, because it is too expensive

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=247818

Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A

• Island Roots - The story of Filipino immigrants who migrated to the United States to work on strawberry farms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GGcLbr9PoM&feature=player_embedded

Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A

• Interactive map showing foreign born population and settlement patterns since 1880. Student could draw conclusions about settlement patterns.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A

• Explains the dustbowl and how people moved to California. Make a comparison between California population growth due to the Gold Rush.

http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/america-black-blizzard#america-black-blizzard

http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/gold-rush#gold-rush

Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A

• Describes the Irish Potato Famine

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=115330

Political, economic social and environmental push and pull factors affect migration TEKS WG.7.B

• The 2010 Southern Spaces series "Migration, Mobility, Exchange, and the U.S. South" is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications that illustrate how the movements of individuals, populations, goods, and ideas shape dynamic spaces, cultures, and identities within or in circulation with the U.S. South.

http://www.southernspaces.org/browse/migration-mobility-exchange

Political, economic social and environmental push and pull factors affect migration TEKS WG.7.B

• Asylum Seekers Australia – Indonesians attempting to get asylum in Australia – news broadcast illegal immigration.

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=178606

Political, economic social and environmental push and pull factors affect migration TEKS WG.7.B

• Acadians (French) in Nova Scotia defeated and expelled from the province – all land and animals forfeited to the English, houses burned.

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=163036

Political, economic social and environmental push and pull factors affect migration TEKS WG.7.B

• Viet Story – Trailer for a feature documentary about Vietnamese migration after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

http://vimeo.com/26801090

Political, economic social and environmental push and pull factors affect migration TEKS WG.7.B

• Evacuation of Saigon in 1975 as told by an American reporter being evacuated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeD6cb7klx4&playnext=1&list=PL7A63F477D9C146DD&feature=results_main

Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment TEKS WG.8.B 

• Conquest of the world by Europeans – conquistadors, guns, germs, and steel – Europeans dominate the world with advanced technology and military strength

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=163051

Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment TEKS WG.8.B

• Guns, Germs and Steel #5 - Looks at domesticating animals.http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.ph

p?video_id=163217

Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment TEKS WG.8.B

• Guns, Germs and Steel #3 Looks at link between emerging farming cultures and and development of advanced civilizations. Farmers selecting which crops to grow was the beginning of man controlling nature, and of domestication.

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=163072