Teaching Arizona History with a
Geographical Perspective

Legacy Project of the
Arizona Geographic Alliance

	Suggested Grade level				AZ Geography Concepts
Name of Lesson	K-2	3-5	6-8	9-12	1	2	3	4	5	6	Other Content
AZ Regions:  Salt Dough Maps		X			X	X					Math
Big Tortilla Moon Teacher file Student worksheets & key Drawings (pdf, jpg) Indian Reservation Map	X					X		X			Reading Writing
Blast It:  Learning About Copper			X				X		X		Reading Writing
Blazing Trails:  Discovering Routes Through AZ to California		X						X	X		Math
Central AZ Project: A Story About Water			X						X		Math
Colors Crackle, Colors Roar Teacher File Student File North America Map	X					X					Reading Writing
Desert Golf Course: An Oasis for Humans and Wildlife		X							X		Math
Desert is Theirs: Adapting to Our Environment		X							X		Reading Writing
Desert Views: Travelers on the Gila Trail		X			X	X		X		X	Reading Writing
Divide and Conquer: Changing Channel Shape			X						X		Math
Don’t Call Me Pig Grade 1 lesson Grade 2-3 lesson Grade 2-3 student file Javelina Habitat Map Southwest Map	X	X				X	X				Reading Writing
Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer Lesson Student File Arizona Streams Map Civil War 1869 Map 1869 Map Labeled Expedition Map		X			X	X					Am Hist Reading Writing
Gift of Water		X				X	X		X		Reading Writing
Gingerbread Cowboy Teacher File Cutouts Song	X				X	X					Reading Writing
Glimpse of Growth: Stories of Phoenix			X					X			Reading Writing Am Hist
Goin’ with the Flow: Aqueducts and Canals		X				X			X		World Hist Am Hist
Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder		X				X					Am Hist Reading Writing
Grand Canyon:  What’s the Attraction?			X		X	X		X	X		Reading Writing Econ Am Hist
How Far Is It? Measuring Distances Around the State	X	X			X						Math
Human Face of Flagstaff		X			X			X			Reading Writing
Island Hopping: The Story of Ned Begay		X			X	X					Writing Am History
It’s Where? A Look at the Location of our First Territorial Capital Teacher Instructions Student Files Territorial Capital Map 1 Territorial Capital Map 2 States with Capitals Map Landforms Map		X			X			X			Am Hist Civics
La Fontera-Barrier or Gateway:  US-Mexico Borderlands				X		X		X			Am Hist
Let’s Travel:  Travel Brochures of Arizona		X			X						Reading Writing
Location, Location, Location:  AZ and the Gadsden Purchase				X		X					Am Hist Econ
Lunger’s Life: Tuberculosis in Early AZ History		X						X		X	Math
Mapping Roxaboxen		X			X						Reading Writing
Mapping the Monsoon	X				X		X				Reading Writing
Map Your State:  Regions of AZ		X			X	X					Reading Writing
Maize to Maquiladoras:  Movement from Mexico to AZ		X						X			Reading Writing
Meet the Mogollons: Who Were They?			X			X			X	X	Am Hist
Mining Ore Not: City Population Density as a Result of a Mining Industry		X						X			Math
Mission Possible: Decoding WWII Navajo Marine Code			X		X			X		X	Reading Am Hist
Monsoon Days		X			X	X		X	X		Reading Science
Mountain Community:  Why Flagstaff?		X				X		X	X	X	Reading Writing
Now You See Them:  Movement of People In and Out of AZ		X			X			X			Math
Paint My Counties, Discretely		X			X	X					Math
Racing Around AZ:  Bicycle Tour Route in AZ	X	X			X						Math
Raindrops: Where Does Rain Fall in AZ			X		X	X	X				Math
Reading the Coyote School News		X			X			X			Reading Writing Am Hist
Relying on the Desert: Plants Used by the Hohokam		X							X		Math
River Through Time		X							X	X	Reading Writing
Settlers Didn’t Have Showers: Water in AZ, Then and Now	X				X				X		Am Hist
So That the Desert Can Blossom Like a Rose:  Agriculture in the Desert		X						X			Reading Writing
Sticks, Stones, Sinews, and Stuff: How Early People Used the Environment	X	X				X			X		Reading Writing
Survivors in Harsh Habitats: Mogollon, Ancient Puebloans, and Hohokam			X						X		Am Hist
The Seed and the Giant Saguaro	X					X	X				Reading Writing
The Three Little Javelinas PreK-K Lesson Grades 1-2 Lesson Map of Javelina Habitat	X				X	X			X		Reading Writing
This House is Made of Mud: Exploring Shapes in Our Lives Grade K-1 lesson Grade 3 lesson Grade 3 student sheets	X	X					X				Math
Through Time:  Change in Sedona	X	X				X		X	X		Reading Writing
Tooling Around AZ: Reading AZ Maps		X			X	X					Reading Writing
Trees in the Desert: Using the Principles of Xeriscape			X						X		Math
Two Stars and a Car	X	X			X				X		Math
Unbreakable Code: Navajo Code Talkers		X			X	X		X			Am Hist Reading
Weaving a Story: The Goat in the Rug		X				X			X