1. World Geography Student Tutorials Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills TEKS - Social Studies Social Studies

2. 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.ph p?video_id=247818

3. 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=8G GcLbr9PoM&feature=player_embedde d

4. 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

5. 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/americ a-the-story-of-us/videos/america- black-blizzard#america-black-blizzard http://www.history.com/shows/americ a-the-story-of-us/videos/gold- rush#gold-rush

6. Effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes TEKS WG.1.A Describes the Irish Potato Famine http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.ph p?video_id=115330

7. 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/brow se/migration-mobility-exchange

8. 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.ph p?video_id=178606

9. 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.ph p?video_id=163036

10. 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

11. 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=Ee D6cb7klx4&playnext=1&list=PL7A63F4 77D9C146DD&feature=results_main

12. 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.ph p?video_id=163051

13. 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

14. 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.ph p?video_id=163072