Grade 4 - Unit 1

US Regions

Print: (we do not have these in our libraries - this is where I would spend the $)

True Books - Northeast, etc.

Capstone US Regions Series

What are the US Regions

True Book - US Landforms

Subscription - True Flix would have a lot of these books (also this is worth the $)

Discovery Education

Series: US Geography - see links below

US Geography The South

US Geography Northeast

US Geography The West

US Geography The Midwest

World Geography The United States (almost 2 hours - divided by region)

Plus tons of other videos on geography in general

General Geography resources

Know (highlighted vocab)- What a continent, country, state, county, city is. What a border is. Know what a region is and what regions exist in the US. Know what different landforms and bodies of water are and what and where some are in the US. Know different climates in different regions.

Brain Pop

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/geography/geographythemes/

You’ll discover the meaning of this term and think about some of the ways in which location, place, region, movement, and environment interact to produce unique geography.

Do - Be able to "read" different kinds of maps. Be able to draw a map.

Understand - Maps show different things - both physical and human characteristics. The US has a variety of landforms/bodies of water/plants/animals/climate in different regions. How people live depends on where they live - the environment plays a big role in humans' way of life

Regions of United States - National Geographic Map - reproducible

Scholastic Map with descriptions

Mapsof the world.com - regions and physical regions

Mapsof the world.com - rivers in the US

Mapsofthe world.com - Mountain ranges in US

Maps of the world.com - highway map

Maps of the World.com - Population Density

Smithsonian's History Explorer