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🗺️ 2nd Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.3.K-2Unit 2: Maps, landforms & the USA

The 50 states

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🎯 Objective: Students locate their state and neighbors on a US map.

Lesson outline

  1. US puzzle map.
  2. Color your state.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: name a neighbor state.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Geo.3.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use maps with grids and scales
  • Locate the United States, states and major landforms

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Maps, landforms & the USA”

  1. Map grids
  2. Landforms and bodies of water
  3. The 50 states
  4. North America

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