US Geography Lesson Two

Review Man in the Map.

Review three songs on States and Capitals DVD.

Put together puzzle of US.

Play Scrambled States of America.

Help children print off maps of their state from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/

US Geography Lesson One

Overview these five states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
We are going on vacation! Assign each student one of these states which they will take us on a tour of, stopping at major tourist sites, on Thursday. I told them which road they will enter the state on and leave the state on, they will mark our route on a map.

Two or three songs on States and Capitals DVD

Read The Man in the Map.

American History Lesson Three

History of US, Volume Two, Chapters 5-8

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/interactiveadventures/john-smith/

http://www.history.com/interactives/jamestown-exhibit

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/jamestown/jamestown-standalone

American History Lesson Two

Tuesday:

• Chapters 1-4 in Joy Hakim’s History of US, Volume Two, Making Thirteen Colonies
• Watch first half of Legislative Branch section on the Standard Deviants DVD: AmericanGovernment Part 2
• Watch first song on States and Capitals Songs DVD
• Start reading My America series, Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony Diary,Book One for evening reading

American History Lesson One

Monday:
Chapters 35-38 of Joy Hakim's book History of US Volume One, The First Americans
Show this map of how people in the 1600s thought North America looked:
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/united-states-map-1685.htm
Show this interactive map of different countries colonizing North America:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/colonists1.html