Day 2: Where Do You Live?
Objectives:
MATERIALS
Teacher: United States Map, Virginia Map, Green Dot Stickers, Red Marker, Blue Marker, Chart Paper
Students: United States Map, Virginia Map, Green Dot Stickers, Red Marker, Blue Marker
Lesson:
Differentiation:
For struggling students: have labels pre-printe and example map for them to reference
For advanced students: Ask them to point out other capitals on the U.S. Map and write them in their notebooks
Assessment: Check that labels are placed correctly - Virginia outlined in blue, Richmond with a green dot
Resources:
http://www.heyitsfree.net/free-state-maps/
This is a great site to get FREE state maps.
References:
Link above
Objectives:
- Find Virginia on a map
- Find Richmond on a map
- Name our Country
- Name our State
- Name our City
- Determine which is the biggest and which is the smallest between country, city and state
MATERIALS
Teacher: United States Map, Virginia Map, Green Dot Stickers, Red Marker, Blue Marker, Chart Paper
Students: United States Map, Virginia Map, Green Dot Stickers, Red Marker, Blue Marker
Lesson:
- Ask students where they live?
- Take different answers from different students
- Write answers on chart paper
- Ask students then to advise if that is a city, state, country, or neighborhood
- Label each on the chart paper
- Ask students if those are all places we live? (YES!)
- Ask students to take out their folders and reference their U.S. map from yesterday (Day 1)
- Hand out VA state maps to each students
- Hand out green dot stickers
- Ask students to reference the U.S. map and see if they can find Virginia
- When they do, advise them to outline it in blue
- Ask students if they think Richmond is inside the state of Virginia or outside the state of Virginia on the map?
- Ask them to put a green dot to show the city of Richmond
- Model gluing the maps in their folders and glue labels that say Country: United Sates; State: Virginia and City: Richmond in the correct places
- In closing, ask the names of our Country, City and State
- Which is the biggest?
- Which is the smallest?
Differentiation:
For struggling students: have labels pre-printe and example map for them to reference
For advanced students: Ask them to point out other capitals on the U.S. Map and write them in their notebooks
Assessment: Check that labels are placed correctly - Virginia outlined in blue, Richmond with a green dot
Resources:
http://www.heyitsfree.net/free-state-maps/
This is a great site to get FREE state maps.
References:
Link above