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TEACHEr’s GuiDE GEOGRAPHY 2009 This educational program brought to you by: DATESeptember 3-9 Written by Lyndal Caddell, WEEK 1 GAMES OKAGE Teacher Consultant, Curtis Inge Middle School, Noble GAME SCHEDULE Brigham Young at Oklahoma Missouri at Illinois Florida Atlantic at Nebraska Georgia at Oklahoma State ULM at Texas Northern Colorado at Kansas North Dakota State at New Mexico at Texas A&M North Dakota at Texas Tech Iowa State Massachusetts at Baylor at Wake Forest Kansas State Colorado State at Colorado Questions Answers 1. Oklahoma’s opponent this week, Brigham Young 1. It started at Nauvoo, Illinois, and ended at what University, is named in honor of the leader who led became Salt Lake City, Utah, near the Great Salt Lake. the Mormons to move west. Where did the Mormon Trail start and end? 2. Cherokee. 2. The University of Georgia football team will be 3. Fargo, North Dakota, and the Red River. flying westward to play OSU in Stillwater this week. 4. Wyoming and Air Force are the two highest What Native American tribe’s move from Georgia stadiums in elevation. The high elevation of these to Indian Territory in the 1830s resulted in the name three stadiums can be explained by their location near “Trail of Tears?” the Rocky Mountains. The stadium at the University 3. Iowa State University plays North Dakota State of Colorado in Boulder is 5,430 feet above sea level. University this week. North Dakota State is located in The stadium at Air Force Academy in Colorado the largest city in North Dakota and near a river that Springs is 6,035 feet above sea level. The stadium at shares the name of the Oklahoma-Texas boundary. the University of Wyoming in Laramie is 7,165 feet Name the city and river associated with North Dakota above sea level. State University. 5. Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas; the teams 4. Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, is the site of are Oklahoma and Brigham Young. a major in-state football rivalry: Colorado versus Overtime Answer Colorado State. In elevation, it is the third highest The students should locate and color the following football stadium in the nation. What are the two Big 12 states: Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, highest stadiums? Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa. An example map can 5. One football game this week will be played at the be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_12_ site of the 2009 Big 12 Football Championship and Conference. the 2011 Super Bowl. Name the location and teams playing there this week. OVERTIME ACTIVITY Baylor will play Wake Forest in North Carolina this week. However, the other eleven conference teams will be playing in states that have universities in the Big 12. On a map of the U.S., label and color those states. 2 BEDLAM BEDLAM GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY 2009 2009 September 10-16DATE Written by Brad Bays, Associate Professor of Geography, WEEK 32 GAMES Oklahoma State University, Stillwater GAME SCHEDULE Colorado at Toledo Arkansas State at Nebraska Kansas State at Idaho State at Oklahoma Louisiana Lafayette Texas at Wyoming Houston at Oklahoma State Rice at Texas Tech Iowa at Iowa State Bowling Green at Missouri Kansas at UTEP Questions Answers 1. Rice University is named for Houston 1. (a) Iowa; (b) Idaho; (c) Arkansas; (d) Kansas. entrepreneur William Marsh Rice (1816–1900), who made part of his fortune shipping cotton. Texas still 2. Richard “Dick” Cheney. produces more cotton than any other state. What 3. (a) Higher: Laramie, Wyoming (7,165 feet above states represented by teams in or visiting the Big 12 sea level); (b) Lower: Lafayette, Louisiana (36 feet this week lead the nation in production of: (a) corn, above sea level) and Houston, Texas (43 feet above (b) potatoes, (c) rice and (d) wheat? sea level). 2. What U.S. vice president was born in Lincoln, 4. Both are universities in Ohio: Bowling Green State Nebraska, and received his undergraduate and University (Wood County) and University of Toledo graduate degrees at the University of Wyoming? (Lucas County). 5. The football stadiums for the University of 3. This week, Big 12 universities are playing teams Houston and Rice University are only 3.5 miles apart from places located at both lower and higher elevations than any Big 12 team. Identify the Overtime Answer university locations that have elevations higher than The answer is Bowling Green State University, which plays the the highest Big 12 college town and lower than the University of Missouri. Bowling Green is centrally located in the region once covered by the Great Black Swamp. Settlers arrived into the lowest Big 12 college town. surrounding region during the early 1800s, but avoided the Black Swamp, which was malaria-infested and impassable. Technology 4. Which two teams visiting Big 12 teams this week introduced in the late 1800s allowed the Black Swamp to eventually are located in adjacent counties in the same state? be drained, which opened extraordinarily rich farmlands to settlers. Thus, the cultural landscape of the former Black Swamp region is 5. Which two teams visiting Big 12 teams this characteristically younger looking by about 75 years than the area that surrounds it, and this odd island of youthfulness can be discerned from week are located closest to one another? What is road patterns, farm size and architectural styles. the distance in miles between their two football stadiums? Use Wikimapia (www.wikimapia.org) or Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) to measure OVERTIME ACTIVITY this distance. Research the “Great Black Swamp” on the Internet. Which university playing a Big 12 team this week is centrally located in the region formerly covered by the Black Swamp? Using Google Earth or a road atlas, compare the area formerly covered by the Black Swamp with nearby areas. Can you see any differences? BEDLAMBEDLAM GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY 2009 2009 3 DATESeptember 17-23 Written by Patricia Anduss, WEEK 3 GAMES OKAGE Teacher Consultant, Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville GAME SCHEDULE Tulsa at Oklahoma Nebraska at Virginia Tech Utah State at Texas A&M Rice at Oklahoma State Wyoming at Colorado Texas Tech at Texas Duke at Kansas Connecticut at Baylor Furman at Missouri Iowa State at Kent State Kansas State at UCLA Questions Answers 1. Which team will be traveling from its state’s second 1. The University of Tulsa. They will be traveling largest city, through the state’s largest city, and playing from Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second largest city, through in a city Money Magazine has ranked as one of the best Oklahoma City, the state’s largest city, and playing in places to live? Norman, ranked as one of the best places to live by Money Magazine. 2. Three of this week’s Big 12 games will be played in cities with an elevation less than 525 feet above sea 2. The Big 12 games with the lowest elevation this level. These games will take place in which state? What week are Connecticut at Baylor, which will be played in accounts for this low elevation? Waco where the elevation is 522 feet above sea level; Texas Tech at Texas, which will be played in Austin This week the Rice Owls travel more than 500 miles 3. where the elevation is 489 feet above sea level; and to play the Cowboys in Stillwater. En route they will Utah State at Texas A&M, which will be played in cross a state boundary created by what river? College Station where the elevation is 367 feet above 4. Over its 87 years, what stadium has hosted five sea level. NFL Super Bowl games and served as the home of a This low elevation is accounted for by the location of university football team? Texas on the Gulf Coastal Plain. 5. The city of Tulsa is known for buildings in the art 3. They will cross the boundary between Oklahoma deco style. Most of these were built in the 1920s. What and Texas created by the Red River. natural resource provided the wealth that led to such intriguing architecture? 4. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena was opened in 1922. Though best known for the New Year’s Tournament of Roses football game, it is the home stadium of the UCLA Bruins. Overtime Answer: Information of architectural 5. Oil provided the money needed to build such grand styles can be found in the library or online. structures. The Glenn Pool oil field was discovered in 1905 and that lead to Tulsa being called the “Oil Capital of the World.” OVERTIME ACTIVITY Find an article in today’s Oklahoman that mentions a style of architecture. Is the style related to a specific time period, place or function? Why might that style have become popular? 4 BEDLAM BEDLAM GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY 2009 2009 September 24-30DATE Written by Lyndal Caddell, WEEK 4 GAMES OKAGE Teacher Consultant, Curtis Inge Middle School, Noble GAME SCHEDULE Grambling at Oklahoma State Tennessee Tech at Kansas State Louisiana Lafayette at Nebraska Missouri at Nevada UTEP at Texas Texas Tech at Houston Army at Iowa State UAB at Texas A&M Southern Miss at Kansas Northwestern State at Baylor Questions in less than a mile, provided power for the 1. Oklahoma State University this week plays grist mills and saw mills of pioneers. What Grambling State University, a historically are the two tallest waterfalls in Oklahoma? black college founded in 1901. Grambling’s legendary coach, Eddie Robinson, holds the Answers record for most victories (408) of any head coach in Division I-AA. In this century, the 1. George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Grambling band has marched in the inaugural 2.