Alyce Knoop
1. Grade Level: 6
2. Title of the day’s lesson with a brief description:
States along the Mississippi River! Students will get assigned one of the states that the Mississippi River borders or runs through, and they will research that state and using the five themes of geography, students will create a baseball card that will be traded between peers.
3. Materials/resources needed:
• Paper
• Markers
• Crayons
• Colored Pencils
• Pencils
• Computers (computer lab)
• Magazines
4. Teacher Preparation (tasks the teacher must do ahead of time):
• Make sure that students will have 30 minutes of time in the computer lab by reserving it
• Pre-cut baseball shaped cards for the students to use
• Research good websites for the students to go on and create a list
• Have materials out and ready for the students to access: markers, crayons, paper, etc.
5. Minnesota Academic Strand(s) and sub-strand(s) addressed by your lesson:
1. Geography: Sub-strand A concepts of location: The student will identify and locate major physical and cultural features that played an important role in the history of the United States.
2. Geography: Sub-strand C physical features and processes: The student will identify physical characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships among regions and their pattern of change.
3. Geography: Sub-strand D interconnections: The student will give examples that demonstrate how people are connected to each other and the environment.
6. NCSS Strand(s) and sub-strand(s) addressed by your lesson:
1. Production, Distribution and Consumption: Sub-strand A: give and explain examples of ways that economic systems structure choices about how goods and services are to be produced and distributed.
2. Production, Distribution and Consumption: Sub-strand H: Compare basic economic systems according to who determines what is produced, distributed, and consumed.
3. Production, Distribution and Consumption: Sub-strand I: Use economic concepts to help explain historical and current developments and issues in local, national, or global contexts.
4. Culture: Sub-strand A: compare simiilaritis and differences in the ways groups, socities and cultures meet human needs and concerns.
7. Goal(s) for today’s lesson:
1. Students will understand how the Mississippi River affects different states
8. Objectives:
1. Students will be able to identify the goods that are transported to and from the particular state that they have researched
2. Students will be able to tell how the river and their state tie in with the five themes of geography
9. Procedures:
a. Introductory experiences (first few minutes to engage learners):
Students will be asked, “Do you remember where the Mississippi starts and ends?” and “Do you know what states the Mississippi runs through or borders?” The students will then answer the question and the answers will be written on the board. Then the correct answers will be given to the students. (5 mn)
i. Mississippi starts from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota, to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
ii. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
b. Developmental experiences:
i. Explain to the students that they will be given a half an hour to research a state that the river runs through, which they will be assigned. They will have to find out each theme of geography for their state, focusing mainly on number 4.
1. Location: Where is it?
2. Place: What do I see when I get there?
3. Human Environment Interaction: How do people and the environment affect each other?
4. Movement: How do people, goods and ideas travel?
5. Region: What makes one area different from another?
ii. Students will be given time to research their state in the computer lab, and they will each be given a sheet with the websites that they can go to, to find the information that they need. (30 mn)
iii. Once the students are done researching, they will head back to the classroom to start working on their “baseball cards.” The cards will have one side that tells the five themes of geography and will answer the questions posed by the five themes, and the other side, which will be filled with a collage. They can use pictures that they draw, pictures from online, or pictures from the magazines provided. (10 mn)
c. Culminating experiences (closure, practice, review):
i. Ask students, “Which states does the Mississippi river border?” Ask them to share any interesting facts that they learned from their research.
ii. Let the students know that they will be given part of the next period to finish their baseball cards and they will be exchanging the cards with others
10. Assessment(s) used during lesson:
i. Students will only be assessed on participation and the research that they accomplish in the computer lab and the classroom.
5 points will be given if students use their time productively and get their research done and started on their baseball cards.
3 points will be given if students use their time and get most of their research done, but do not get started with their baseball cards.
1 point will be rewarded if the student does not use time productively and gets little done.
ii. Students will be observed while asking questions and researching
Websites to Visit:
All ten states:
http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/
Minnesota: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/minnesota.cfm
Wisconsin: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/wisconsin.cfm
Iowa: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/iowa.cfm
Illisnois: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/illinois.cfm
Missouri: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/missouri.cfm
Kentucky: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/kentucky.cfm
Arkansas: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/arkansas.cfm
Tennessee: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/tennessee.cfm
Mississippi: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/mississippi.cfm
Louisiana: http://www.experiencemississippiriver.com/louisiana.cfm
All ten states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
Mississippi Baseball Card Directions
The state that you were given is one of the ten states that lies on the Mississippi river. You will be creating a baseball card with that state and telling how it relates to the five themes of geography, focusing on the movement theme and how people and ideas travel.
Your baseball card should include:
• The five themes of geography and the questions posed by the five themes(on one side of the baseball card) Within one or two sentences, briefly answer the question being asked and apply it to the state that you are researching.
o Location: Where is it?
o Place: What do I see when I get there?
o Human Environment Interaction: how do people and the environment affect each other?
o Movement: How do people, goods, and ideas travel?
o Region: What makes one area different from another?
• A collage of pictures that can be drawn, found online or in magazines. These pictures should show the five themes of geography and explain with pictures what you wrote on the other side.
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