Grade: 4th
 
 
Content Standards:
  1. Students will differentiate between state and national boundaries.
  2. Students will define regions as categorized by geographic location.
  3. Students will use appropriate maps for a specific purpose, including elevation, land use-resource, road maps and mileage tables, time zones, and migration/movement patterns.

 

  Two Background Sites:
      1) United States Geography - http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/US.html
      2) NetState.com - http://www.netstate.com/states/index.html

 

 
  Three Lesson Plan Sites:
      1) The 50 States - Identify the location of a state, compare population sizes from various states, learn the state bird, flag, and location on the map.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS50StateGeography23.htm

       2) Mr. Donn's Pages - Listing of a variety of Lesson Plan ideas for United States Geography. http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/States.html
      3) The Teachers Corner.Net - Lesson Plan that teaches about United States Geography using American tall tales.  http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/299geography.pdf

 

 
  Four Student Pages:
      1) Cybersleuth Kids http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Geography/United_States/index.htm
      2) Kidport Reference Library - United States Geography http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaGeography/UsaGeography.htm
      3) Lyndsey's Mania http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html
      4) Kids Online Resources - http://www.kidsolr.com/geography/