Our first featured work is from Chloe Williams! The whole class was amazed by Chloe's Wisconsin River map which shows the Wisconsin River and several tributaries. Chloe also showed the various landform regions in the state of Wisconsin and labeled them with a map key. Though my scanner does not show color, each landform region is color coded as well. We may have a future cartographer on our hands! Nice work Chloe!
From time to time, I will post examples of excellent student work. These posts will be titled, "Spotlight Work" as they are examples that are spotlight worthy. There is no schedule for these posts. I will post them when we as a class witness something we feel knocks our socks off. Our first featured work is from Chloe Williams! The whole class was amazed by Chloe's Wisconsin River map which shows the Wisconsin River and several tributaries. Chloe also showed the various landform regions in the state of Wisconsin and labeled them with a map key. Though my scanner does not show color, each landform region is color coded as well. We may have a future cartographer on our hands! Nice work Chloe!
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Rivers are bodies of fresh, moving water. All rivers flow from higher to lower ground and are often joined by smaller rivers and streams. These smaller rivers and streams that flow into a larger river are called tributaries. For example, the Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi River; the Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi. Together, a river and all its tributaries is called a river system. Today we explored the largest river system in the United States - the Mississippi River. The picture to the left shows the Mississippi river system and its drainage basin. Here is a list of vocabulary words from today's lesson: tributary, drainage basin, fall line, inlet, and gulf. Check out the slides below for review of today's (and yesterday's) lesson. For extra practice with landforms, features, and rivers, try the United States Feature Puzzle. We are exploring inland bodies of water of the United States. Our focus was Wisconsin rivers today. We researched the many rivers in Wisconsin. Check out this list from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Wisconsin. Our homework for this evening is to locate and identify a Wisconsin river (not necessarily THE Wisconsin River) and draw it on our map. We know a of a lot of Wisconsin rivers already, just check out our brainstorm below for some possible rivers we could explore! The nation's geography differs from coast to coast. Today's lesson focused on landform regions in the United States. We explored the various landform regions including the Coastal Plains, Appalachian and Rocky mountains, the Central Plains, and more. These regions have similar landforms throughout. We made flashcards to practice identifying the features of each region, and we explored other features of the United States using and interactive map. You can practice using it here: http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-features-puzzle.html Check out our slides from today's lesson for extra review. Dear Parents, Your child is beginning to study American history. In Unit 1, The Land and Early People, we will be discussing the following essential questions:
We began exploring and previewing our unit today with a brainstorm about what we already knew about the earliest Americans. Check it out! |
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