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Complete the word search of vocabulary words I passed out to you this morning. Turn that into the basket. Then, find definitions using www.dictionary.com and record the definitions in your social studies notebook.
Tuesday:
the basket. Then, play a game on Kids Geography called the "United States of America Map Game" to become familiar with the location of states.
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Listen to the podcast linked below at a computer station with headphones and take notes on what you hear about the geography, economy, and culture of the southern states. Then, complete the crossword puzzle I passed out this morning. Put the puzzle in the basket.

Southern Appalachian Mountains (Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains)
South Carolina's Sea Islands
game on Kids Geography called the "United States of America Map Game" to become familiar with the location of states.
Wednesday: Briefly discuss the economy, culture, and geography of these Southern features. Help students become familiar with the terms estuary, tributary, delta, and wetland and their association with any of the five physical features being discussed. Review the terms weather and climate, and then discuss the South's general weather and climate with students.
Student Response Activity: Listen to the podcast linked below and take notes on what you hear about the geography, economy, and culture of the southern states. Then, complete the crossword puzzle I handed out this morning.

Grade Level: 4-5
Overview: To give the students a better understanding of the region in which we live.
Objectives: Using
Using PowerPoint, podcasts, 90% accuracy.
Using Google Maps to help visualize, the 5th grade students will be able to identify all states in the Southern U.S. on a map and their major physical features with 90% accuracy.
Through classroom discussion and an educational movie, the 5th grade students will be able to list differences and similarities in the physical features of the Southern U.S. with 85% accuracy.
Through online educational games, the 5th grade students will be able to interpret historical data of Southern regions and identify the major trades of different states with 80% accuracy.
Blue=Condition
Green=Audience
Red=Behavior
Orange=Degree of Mastery
This objective isThese objectives are asking students
Materials Needed: Paper, pencils, colored markers, crayons, posterboard, encyclopedias, atlases, computer with Internet access, U.S. Geography: The South (DVD), DVD player, television, headphones, PowerPoint, Google Earth, SMART Board
Activities and Procedures:
Monday: Watch the video, U.S. Geography: The South as a class and pause to answer the onscreen questions as they come up. Have students record their answers in their social studies notebooks. Ask students about what physical features the video discusses and make a classroom list of specific physical features found in the South.
Student Response Activity: Complete
Tuesday: Review the notes taken from Monday’s video. Display pictures of the following physical features on Google Earth and compare them, all found in the South. Have students note their differences and similarities on the SMART Board:
Mississippi River
Southern Appalachian Mountains (Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains)
South Carolina's Sea Islands
Student Response Activity: Create today’s discussion. Then, play a game on
Wednesday: Briefly discuss the economy, culture, and geography of these Southern features. Help students become familiar with the terms estuary, tributary, delta, and wetland and their association with any of the five physical features being discussed. Review the terms weather and climate, and then discuss the South's general weather and climate with students.
Student Response Activity: Listen
http://millard.esu3.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast23.html
Thursday: Divide the class into groups, and assign each one of the five physical features to research. Tell the groups to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for the class about their assigned feature. Also required is a posterboard with a visual of the physical feature they are presenting on. Each presentation should be a minimum of five minutes in length, maximum of 10 minutes. The presentations also should include the following aspects of each physical feature:
Culture
Current environmental, cultural, or economic issues
Student Response Activity: Meet
Friday: Have groups present on their assigned physical feature.
Student Response Activity: Finish
Assessment:
Three points: Students actively participated in class discussions and their group's PowerPoint presentation; worked cooperatively in research groups; PowerPoint presentation met time requirements and all eight criteria; delivered a well-organized, informative presentation; attentively listened to other presentations. Visual aid was accurate and easy to read.

Review:
What worked in this lesson, what didn't work, and what needs to change based on my students' needs?
Lesson Plan edited from:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/geo_south/

Complete the word search of vocabulary words I passed out to you this morning. Turn that into the basket. Then, find definitions using www.dictionary.com and record the definitions in your social studies notebook.
Tuesday:
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Listen to the podcast linked below at a computer station with headphones and take notes on what you hear about the geography, economy, and culture of the southern states. Then, complete the crossword puzzle I passed out this morning. Put the puzzle in the basket.

Create a KWL chart using MS Word about what you know already about the
of the south, what you would like to know, and what you learned from today's discussion. Print it out and turn it into the basket.
Wednesday: {earphone.gif}
Listen to the podcast linked below at a computer station with headphones and take notes on what you hear about the geography, economy, and culture of the southern states. Then, complete the crossword puzzle I passed out this morning. Put the puzzle in the basket.
http://millard.esu3.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast23.html
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_appalachians.html
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