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🗺️ 4th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.2.3-5Unit 1: Regions of the United States

The Midwest and Southwest

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🎯 Objective: Students describe the Midwest and Southwest.

Lesson outline

  1. Stations.
  2. Notes.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one fact each.

Lesson 3 of 5 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.2.3-5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe the five US regions: geography, climate, resources and people

✅ 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”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Regions of the United States”

  1. What is a region?
  2. The Northeast and Southeast
  3. The Midwest and Southwest
  4. The West
  5. Region travel brochure

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