Module 10: Where Do I Live A: City, State, Region- Social Studies 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to locate their hometown on a map and compare and contrast their hometown to other towns. Students will also locate their home state on a map and compare and contrast their state to others. Finally, they will locate their home region on a map and compare and contrast their home region to other regions.

Module Materials:

  • Pencils
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Notebook
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Highlighter
  • Markers
  • Blank paper

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 City
  1. Locate their hometown on a map.
  2. Compare and contrast their hometown to other towns.
2 State
  1. Locate their home state on a map.
  2. Compare and contrast their state to others.
3 Region
  1. Locate their home region on a map.
  2. Compare and contrast their home region to other regions.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
compare
contrast
locate
hometown
city
map
state
border
region

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 City 6 My Hometown Assignment
2 State 5 Colorful States Assignment
3 Region 5 My Region Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 City After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain what a city is, the three types of cities, and what type of city they live in or near.
2 State After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain what a state is, how it is different from a city, what state they live in, and why it is considered a state.
3 Region After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain what a region is and which region they live in.

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
City
  1. What are the three types of cities?
State
  1. What is a state?
Region
  1. What is a region?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing