Integrated Literacy Assignment

GLCE: 4-G2.0.1 Describe ways in which the United States can be divided into

different regions (eg., political regions, economic regions, landform regions,

vegetation regions).

Anna Servo

Economic Regions

Economic Regions

Economic Regions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdkeP7ZuQ4

Automoblie Industry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGehJ3cu4XU

Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0875018.html

Economic Regions

One of the South’s largest economic resources is Florida’s Orange Trees One of the largest parts of the

Midwest’s Economy was automobiles.

Economic Regions

Midwest West

South North-East

Use charts to describe similar and different things in the four Economic

Regions

Political Regions

Political Regions

Capital Building in Washington, DC

Video Tour of the Capital Building in Lansing, Michigan:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZkvHXPDbY

Interactive Map Gamehttp://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Geography/USA_G0_click_1024.html

Political Regions

State Capitals: America’s 50 State Capitol Buildings

by Susan Thrane

The 50 Capitol Songhttp://www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/50capitals.html

Landform Regions

Landform Regions

Landform Regions of the United States interactive map and activities website. http://www.eduplace.com/

kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g2_u2/

“Home on the Range” http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=K_YK7ebcZ2o

Landform Regions

When I Was Young In The Mountains

By: Cynthia Rylant

USA Geography Tutorials

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Landform Regions

Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion ReturnsBy: Ginger Kathrens

PBS created an Episode devoted to this book:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/clouds-legacy-the-wild-stallion-returns/video-full-episode/266/

Vegetation Regions

Vegetation Regions

Vegetation Regions of the United States http://www.eduplace.co

m/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g6_u2/

National Geography http://education.natio

nalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/vegetation-region/?ar_a=1

Vegetation Regions

Temperate Deciduous ForestSemi-Desert

Taiga Alpine Tundra

Kathrens, G. (Narrator). (2003). Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Return [Online video]. PBS. Retrieved October 15, 2013, from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/clouds-legacy-the-wild-stallion-returns/video-full-episode/266/

Vegetation Zones of North America. (n.d.). In EduPlace. Retrieved October 13, 2013, from http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g6_u2/

Sheppard Software. (n.d.). In USA Geography. Retrieved October 13, 2013, from http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Kathrens, G. (2003). Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns. N.p.: Bow Tie Press.

Rylant, C. (1982). When I Was Young in the Mountains. New York City, NY: Dutton's Children Books.

(2008). Home on the Range [Online video]. Retrieved October 5, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YK7ebcZ2o

Landform Regions of the United States (2008). In Edu Place. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g2_u2/

(2011). This is Lansing-Michigan State Capitol [Online video]. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZkvHXPDbY

(2012). US Economic Regions [Online video]. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdkeP7ZuQ4

(2012). Detroit Auto Industry [Online video]. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGehJ3cu4XU

The West (2012). In Fact Monster. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0875018.html