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Below are links to various materials we've created to support students' work on the unit theme: Our Land.

• Unit Bibliography: This is a list of supplementary materials to help you to meet the needs of individual students in your classroom.
• Classroom Activities: To extend instruction, here are some creative activities you can print and use in your classroom.
  • Hometown Menu (Language Arts/Social Studies)
  • Stateside Challenge (Art/Language Arts/Social Studies)
• Theme Project Organizer: This is a worksheet you can print and distribute to students to help them track their work on the Theme Project.
• Theme Project Links: Here are Internet resources for students to use while working on the Theme Project.

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Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Think Like a Geographer” feature for this unit: How Does a Geographer Study Regions?

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

The Color Landform Atlas of the United States contains topographical and political maps to the county level for each of the fifty states. Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey

The U.S. Geological Survey Home Page hosts a large number of educational resources for teachers and students interested in cartography, geography, and related subjects, as well as a variety of fact sheets, links to related educational sites, and more. You can also order USGS materials from this site.

http://www.usgs.gov/

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Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Citizenship” feature for this unit: How Can You Help?

Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

Here you will find tips for how kids can help preserve the environment.

http://www.kab.org/network.asp?id=200&rid=201/

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