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Grade 4 Social Studies
Unit 1: Map Skills - Examining the World and the United States Activity 4: The United States: A Diverse Country (GLE: 6) CC: Assign each pair one of the places generated on the list by the students. Using the maps and atlases as resources, each pair should locate information specific to its assigned landform, body of water, or waterway (e.g., the distance covered by the Rocky Mountain range, the height of the highest peak in the Rocky Mountain range, the depth of each of the Great Lakes, the length of the Mississippi River). Additionally, they should identify the type of climate, the vegetation, natural resources, and the land use surrounding the landform, body of water or waterway. Web Sites for Student Research: World Book Online (Search Terms - the assigned landform or body of water) http://www.louisianaschools.net/worldbook/
EBSCO Kids Search (Search Terms - the assigned landform or body of water) CC: Have each pair of students share its information using a visual aid that they have constructed. Students can use MS PowerPoint for a slide presentation or Kidspiration software for a visual aid. Project Poster is a great website to create projects about the information students have gathered.
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