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Describing Geography in United States. Unit 2 Lesson 7. 4 - G1.0.1: Identify questions geographers ask in examining the United States (e.g., Where it is? What is it like there? How is it connected to other places?).
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Describing Geography in United States Unit 2 Lesson 7
4 - G1.0.1: Identify questions geographers ask in examining the United States (e.g., Where it is? What is it like there? How is it connected to other places?). 4 - G1.0.4: Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States.
Six large pieces of chart paper with the following: Location, Landforms, Climate, Bodies of Water, Human Characteristics, and Regions are taped in the room. Groups will move around the room from poster to poster adding information learned in the unit to the posters. Model with the poster labeled “Landforms” and write “Rocky Mountains” on the poster. Explain that information added could include examples, definitions, descriptions, etc.
As a culminating unit project, create a visual describing the geography of the United States. Two different options are offered below. Option One: Read the first three pages of the book Wow! America! By Robert Neubecker. Create a class book using the same structure. Option Two: Create a visual (e.g. poster, picture book, PowerPoint presentation, storyboard) that describes the geography of the United States including relative location, physical characteristics, human characteristics, two ways to divide the country into regions and a description of at least one specific region.
Creating a Wow! America! Book: Page Description Overhead WOW! Write a descriptive sentence here Draw your illustration in this large box. Write the characteristic here.
Planning Sheet WOW!
Resource Neubecker, Robert. Wow! America. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2006. Egbo, Carol. Supplemental Materials (Unit 2, Lesson 7).Teacher-made material. Michigan Citizenship Collaborative, 2008.
