Daily Lesson GAME Plan
Lesson Title: The Five Regions of
Georgia
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Related Lessons: Georgia’s Landforms, Georgia’s Rivers,
Georgia Has Regions?, and Tourism of Georgia Project
Unit: Georgia’s Regions
GOALS
Content Standards:
SS2G1 The student will locate major topographical features of Georgia and
will describe how these features define Georgia’s surface.
a. Locate all the geographic regions of Georgia: Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont,
Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau.
ISTE NETS-S
 Creativity and Innovation
 Communication and Collaboration
 Research and Information Fluency
Instructional Objective(s):
Overarching Questions:
Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and
Decision-Making
Digital Citizenship
 Technology Operations and Concepts
Topical Questions:
1. Why is the world around you
1. Can you locate each of the five
important in your life?
regions of Georgia on a map?
2. Why is the (i.e. Piedmont, Blue
2. How does living in _________ region
Ridge Mountains, Coastal Plain,
affect the way we live?
Appalachian Plateau, and Valley
3. How are the 5 regions (Piedmont,
and Ridge) located there?
Coastal Plain, Appalachian Plateau,
3. How does where I live influence
Valley and Ridge, and the Blue
how I live?
Ridge Mountains) alike and
4. What do you mean by ‘region?’
different (or unique)?
5. What makes a region unique
and different?
6. What can we learn from the
past?
7. How can the places we live,
make a difference in the way we
live?
ACTION
Before-Class Preparation
Locate video – Georgia Regions Movie LIVE
Locate books (print materials) on the regions of Georgia’s (at library or school
media center)
Locate (and print) images from each region of Georgia (images should include, but
are not limited to, animals, landforms, tourist attractions, flowers, plants, trees, etc.
that represent the specific region being discussed)
Print out a set of 5 word webs for each student
Prepare a map of Georgia indicating each of the five regions of Georgia
Locate and prepare the Regions of Georgia PowerPoint
Locate the Regions of Georgia Prezi Presentation
Prepare the Performance Task: Tourism Association of Georgia and the
corresponding rubric (Group Project Rubric)
During Class
Time
Instructional Activities
Materials & Resources
(Day
3)
–
Explain
the
standard
5 Days (1 Week)
Pencil, journal (or
(SS2G1 The student will locate
(Days 3 – 7)
notebook paper),
major topographical features of
projector, computer,
Georgia and will describe how
Interactive board (or
these features define Georgia’s
surface. a. Locate all the geographic white board), books about
regions of Georgia: Blue
Georgia’s regions, SS
Ridge
Mountains, Piedmont,
textbook, a map of Georgia
Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge, and
(with all 5 regions
Appalachian Plateau.) and
the
indicated on the map or a
essential questions (listed above),
classroom map of
again, for the activity. (W)
Georgia), images from
(Day 3-7) - Give the students the
each region of Georgia,
Word Web. (Evaluation)
speakers, Georgia Regions
Explain to the students that they
Pathfinder, Regions of
will view the Regions of Georgia
Georgia PowerPoint and
PowerPoint and Prezi (and any
other presentations you would like Prezi
to utilize from the Georgia
Regions Pathfinder) and will
need to record any important
information about each of the 5
regions of Georgia using their word
webs, (W) as the teacher presents
and discusses the PowerPoint (one
region at a time). (Explore and
Equip)
(Day 3-7) – Ask students to begin
their journal writing, Life as an
animal in a Georgia Region, and
continue the journal writing for the
next 5 days. Students will write
about the following given topic:
Write about a day in your life as if
you were an animal from one of the
five regions of Georgia.
If you could be one of the many
animals that live in one of our five
regions in Georgia, Which would
you be? Why? What region would
you come from? What types of
things would you see? What would
you do for the day? (Explore, Equip,
and Evaluate)
(Day 7) – Give each student a copy
of Performance Task: Tourism
Association of Georgia along with
the corresponding rubric (Group
Project Rubric). Explain to the
students that they are going to be
tour guides for the state of Georgia.
Kevin Langston, Deputy
Commissioner for Tourism, has
asked them to research, plan, and
create a creative presentation
using either VoiceThread or
Glogster, to be used as Georgia’s
new online travel “brochure.” The
online travel presentation will be
presented to their boss (Kevin
Langston), the other tour guides,
and tourists. The presentation
must include the following:
1.) The names of all 5 geographic
regions. 2.) What does the land look like?
(description and picture)
3.) Names of major cities in the
regions. 4.) Local attractions for visitors.
5.) Natural
resources/manufactured products
in each region. 6.) Types of communities in each
region (ex. urban, rural, suburban)
7.) Create a creative online
presentation.
Notes: Modifications and accommodations can be viewed below.
MONITOR
Ongoing Assessment(s):
Teacher Observation/Conferencing – The students will participate in class
discussions and teacher conferencing.
Facet – Interpretation/Application/Empathy/Explanation
Writing: Life as an animal in Georgia’s Regions – Students will write about the
following given topic: Write about a day in your life as if you were an animal from
one of the five Georgia regions.
If you could be one of the many animals that live in one of our five regions in Georgia,
Which would you be? Why? What region would you come from? What types of things
would you see? What would you do for the day?
Facet – Interpretation/Application/SelfKnowledge/Perspective/Empathy/Explanation
Student Self-Assessments: Student Evaluation of Performance Task: Tourism
Association of Georgia Presentation – The students will reflect upon small group
assignments (the tourism PowerPoint) they have produced with their group
members and their own role in completing the assignment.
Facet – Self-Knowledge/Explanation
Accommodations and Extensions:
Students will be placed into small groups to complete the Performance Task, rather
than completing the task individually. Students with an IEP, will be given the 5 word
webs, and asked to only complete 2 facts about each Region of Georgia, rather than
additional facts required.
Backup Plan:
If Internet access is unavailable, the teacher will introduce and discuss, in-depth, all
regions of Georgia using a classroom map of Georgia. Images of Georgia’s regions
will be shown/viewed through the SS textbook and/or books located from the
library.
EVALUATE AND EXTEND
Lesson Reflections and Notes:
Note 1: Key vocabulary is introduced as they are mentioned in the learning activities, textbook, other
reading material, and performance task. Students will read and discuss, with the teacher, relevant
sections of the SS textbook (pages 74-99) in order to support the learning activities and performance
task. (Explore and Equip)
Note 2: As an ongoing activity, the students will write a paper about a day in the life of an animal
from
one of the five Georgia regions, as if you were the animal. Answer the following questions: If
you could be one of the many animals that live in one of our five regions in Georgia, Which would you
be? Why? What region would you come from? What types of things would you see? What would you
do for the day? (Rethink, Revisit, Reflect, and Refine)
RESOURCES
Branyan, J., Fain, K., Forehand, M., & Freeman, C. (2008). Unit 2 – Our Georgia
(07/24/2008). Retrieved from
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks/GSO Frameworks/SS Gr 2%0 Unit
2.pdf
Bryson, A. (2008). GRASPS title: Second grade social studies Georgia regions and
rivers. Retrieved from
http://teachingwithpurpose.com/GRASPSU08/Second_GA_Regions_Rivers_Bryson/
Second_GA_Regions_Rivers_Bryson.htm
Georgia Department of Education. (2008). Unit 2 – Our Georgia (07/24/2008).
Retrieved from
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks/GSO%20Frameworks/SS%20Gr
%202%0 Unit%202.pdf
Oetter, D., & Skelton, C. (n.d.). Georgia’s rivers. Retrieved from
http://www.hercules.gcsu.edu/~doetter/projects/river/georgias_rivers.ppt
Robertson, H. (2008). The five regions of Georgia. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/Heatherrenee/the-five-regions-of-georgia