Q3G5 UNIT OF STUDY: Supplemental Geography Information
Social Studies/Geography Information
Geography Content Strand II, 5-8 Benchmark 2-A: Analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools,
knowledge, skills and perspectives and apply them to explain the past, present, and future in terms of patterns, events, and issues.
Geography Content Strand II, 5-8 Benchmark 2-E: Explain how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape
patterns of human populations and their independence, cooperation, and conflict.
2-A Performance
Standard:
2. Demonstrate how
different areas of the U.S.
are organized and
interconnected.
2-A Performance Standard:
3. Identify and locate each of
the 50 states and capitals of
the U.S.
2-A Performance
Standard:
4. Identify tribal
territories within
states.
Students will review
map features of the
United States.
Students will read and
review geographic facts
of the United States.
See “Map Features”
Student Resource Sheet
in Texts & Resources
folder in the Unit of
Study folder.
Students will review U.S.
states and state capitals. See
map of “State Capitals of the
U.S. in Texts & Resources
folder in the Unit of Study
folder.
Students will review
Native American
tribes and tribal
territories within the
U.S. See “Native
American Tribes &
U.S. Government” in
Texts & Resources
folder in the Unit of
Study folder.
See also: “Category:
Maps of Native
American Tribal
Territories”
(Wikipedia)
https://commons.wi
2-A Performance
Standard:
5. Employ fundamental
geographic vocabulary
(e.g., latitude, longitude,
interdependence,
accessibility,
connections).
Students will read about
and review information
on geographic
vocabulary. See “Social
Studies for Kids Basic
Geography: Latitude and
Longitude,” “World
Atlas” map image, and
“Latitude and Longitude
Facts” in Texts &
Resources folder in the
Unit of Study folder.
2-E Performance Standard:
1. Explain how physical features
influenced the expansion of the U.S.
Students will read and review relevant
texts that reference how physical
features influenced U.S. expansion.
See “The United States Goes West” by
Adam McClellan, “Boundaries: How
the Mason-Dixon Line settled a Family
Feud and divided a Nation” Teachers’
Guide, “Land and Water: How
Geography Affects Our Community” by
Lisa Oram, and Important Man-made
and Physical Features of the United
States in Texts & Resources folder in
the Unit of Study folder.
See also: “Interactives United States
History Map: From Sea to Shining Sea
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
historymap/sea.html
kimedia.org/wiki/Ca
tegory:Maps_of_Nativ
e_American_tribal_te
rritories
See also: “Maps of
United States Indians
by State”
http://www.nativelanguages.org/states.
htm