Details
Pages
44 Pages
Subject
Writing, History/Social Studies, Geography
Languages
English
Product
Digital
Grade
3rd, 4th, 5th
Resource Type
Activities, Reading Passages, Worksheets
Standard
Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Description
This geography unit helps you assess your students' knowledge while giving them the practice they need to learn about how people perceive places and regions differently by conducting interviews, mental mapping, and studying news, poems, legends, and songs about a region or area.
The fun and engaging worksheets are a great addition to any social studies unit. Each worksheet transforms your class into an engaging classroom. Using this material, your students will gain a better understanding of places and regions. The informational pages included provides a handy guide for teachers when teaching this unit. The worksheets engage the mind while reinforcing student understanding through activities such as multiple choice questions, drawing activities, writing prompts, and more. The answer key is included.
This Activity aligns with the Social Studies Standards:
SS.3.G.2.6 Investigate how people perceive places and regions differently by conducting interviews, mental mapping, and studying news, poems, legends, and songs about a region or area.
They can complete the activities on paper or on a computer using Google Classroom. This resource is divided into the following sections, and within each section are ready-to-print resources and engaging activities
Introduction to Places and Regions
It has a brief history of the subject, with an overview of all the most important points. It also includes diagrams and illustrations to help illustrate what they're learning and make it more fun.
Engaging Activities
✍️ Reading passage and a drawing activity
✍️ Answer the questions briefly about how people perceive places and regions
✍️ Make a poster or a drawing of the state you live in
✍️ Compare and contrast your drawing and your classmate's drawing using the given diagram
✍️ Brainstorm on your traveling memory
✍️ Draw a picture of you and your family in your special place
✍️ Have one of your family members draw your family's special place
✍️ Interview one of your parents and one of your friends
✍️ Draw your classroom, house, and a map from your home going to your school
✍️ Answer the given questions based on the given reading passage
✍️ Draw how can you perceive the entire happenings from the legend
✍️ Answer the questions based on the given poem 'Mustard Flowers'
✍️ Identify which drawing showed the correct town map
✍️ Draw a mental map and draw what you have perceived from the song
Answer Key to Activities
All Social Studies Activities include an answer key that is available as PDF and Google Slides. The answer key is a valuable resource to use in the classroom, or at home, as they help students learn how to explain their answers, check if their explanations are correct, and improve their knowledge and thinking skills.
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The fun and engaging worksheets are a great addition to any social studies unit. Each worksheet transforms your class into an engaging classroom. Using this material, your students will gain a better understanding of places and regions. The informational pages included provides a handy guide for teachers when teaching this unit. The worksheets engage the mind while reinforcing student understanding through activities such as multiple choice questions, drawing activities, writing prompts, and more. The answer key is included.
This Activity aligns with the Social Studies Standards:
SS.3.G.2.6 Investigate how people perceive places and regions differently by conducting interviews, mental mapping, and studying news, poems, legends, and songs about a region or area.
They can complete the activities on paper or on a computer using Google Classroom. This resource is divided into the following sections, and within each section are ready-to-print resources and engaging activities
Introduction to Places and Regions
It has a brief history of the subject, with an overview of all the most important points. It also includes diagrams and illustrations to help illustrate what they're learning and make it more fun.
Engaging Activities
✍️ Reading passage and a drawing activity
✍️ Answer the questions briefly about how people perceive places and regions
✍️ Make a poster or a drawing of the state you live in
✍️ Compare and contrast your drawing and your classmate's drawing using the given diagram
✍️ Brainstorm on your traveling memory
✍️ Draw a picture of you and your family in your special place
✍️ Have one of your family members draw your family's special place
✍️ Interview one of your parents and one of your friends
✍️ Draw your classroom, house, and a map from your home going to your school
✍️ Answer the given questions based on the given reading passage
✍️ Draw how can you perceive the entire happenings from the legend
✍️ Answer the questions based on the given poem 'Mustard Flowers'
✍️ Identify which drawing showed the correct town map
✍️ Draw a mental map and draw what you have perceived from the song
Answer Key to Activities
All Social Studies Activities include an answer key that is available as PDF and Google Slides. The answer key is a valuable resource to use in the classroom, or at home, as they help students learn how to explain their answers, check if their explanations are correct, and improve their knowledge and thinking skills.
_________________________________________________________________
FOR QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ☕
If you have any concerns about the product or your purchase, you can send us a direct message on Classful or an email to [email protected]
THANK YOU FOR VISITING JAMIE'S PLAYGROUND STORE ✏️
Subscribe to my website to get access to pages of FREE resources for your classroom today! You'll also get my best teaching tips and promotions sent straight to your inbox!
LET'S CONNECT ❤️
⚬ Follow me on TpT: Jamie's Playground
⚬ Check out my website: jamiesplayground.org
⚬ Find Jamie's Playground on Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok
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