Title: Major National Parks
Grade 4
60 minutes
Geography
Julie Deignan-Haynes
Shiloh Village School
AAM affiliation-Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Description:
Students will use knowledge of geographic regions and a physical map of the United States of America to place seven major national parks on a map. Students will match the geographic regions and names of the parks with the photographs to complete this geography reinforcement while becoming aware of National Parks in the United States.
State Standards:
16A2c-ask questions and seek answers by collecting and analyzing data from historic documents, images and other literary and non-literary sources
17A2b-use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments
Objective:
Students will work in partners to distinguish, compare, and contrast seven photographs of the following major national parks: Yosemite-California, Hawaii-Eye of the Eel Volcano Crater, Rocky Mountains-Colorado, Grand Canyon-Arizona, Great Smoky Mountains-North Carolina, Arches-Utah, and Everglades-Florida. Students will apply their prior knowledge of major geographical regions in the United State to the evidence in the photographs and locate these major national parks.
Resources:
Beam, George, L."View of Arches National Park" between 1920 and 1930.
History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the
Collection of the Denver Public Library [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field
(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00135731))] [codhawp 00135731] (April 6, 2004).Matlack, Claude Carson. "Mangroves" 1925-1929.Reclaiming the Everglades:
South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fmuever:@field
(NUMBER+@band(fmuever+cm00500024))][fmuever cm00500024] (April 6, 2004).
Rhoads, Harry, M. "Dedication Of Rocky Mountain National Park." 1915.
History of American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection
of the Denver Public Library.
[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field
(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00185259))[codhawp 00185259](April 12, 2004)."Eye of the Eel, Chain of Craters Road, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii." 1936-02. American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library [http://memory.loc.gov/cg-bin/query/r?ammem/aep:@field(DOCID+@lit(icuaep.HIS8))] (Aril 6, 2004). McClure, Louis, C. "Grand Cañon from summit of Bright Angel Trail." 1905-1910.History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from
the Collection of the Denver Public Library.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/pan:@field
(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a00520))][codhawp 00070469] (April 12, 2004)."Yosemite National Park, Three Brothers, Yosemite, CA." Images of America:
Lantern Slide Collection. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h117881))]
[mhsdalad 090113](April 12, 2004).Wolcott, Marion, P. "Shocks of Corn. Smokey Mountains near Ashville, NC."
1939. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs
from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.[http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:
@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c10611))] [fsa 8c10611] (April 12, 2004).
Method:
1. Pass out a physical map and a precipitation map of the United States to every student.
2. Set students up in groups of two or three.
3. Have students brainstorm major geographic regions of the United States and recall Yellowstone National Park from yesterday’s lesson.
4. Write the regions on the board.
5. Show the pictures of the National Parks slowly, one at a time, asking students to match the geography. Put the number of the picture next to the list of geographic regions on the board.
6. Review the pictures again and discuss student’s choices matched to regions.
7. Put the names of the national parks on the board-NOT listed correctly next to each number.
8. Give the students about five minutes to match the names of the park with regions-some are obvious-some are not.
9. Reveal the correct names of the National Parks with the correct pictures and have students place the names of the National parks in the correct spots on their maps. Have an overhead copy of the map yourself so you can place the parks correctly while the students place theirs.
10. Review the photographs once again having students name both the state and the geographic regions that support that park.
Assessment:
Collect the maps and assess for correct placement and name of the seven national parks. I will count spelling and neatness also, since I will have put those up myself. This project will be worth 94 points. 70 points for correct placement and name, 2 points for each correct spelling (7 X 2(state and national park)), and 10 points for neatness.
Key Words:
physical region, swamp, mountain, weathering, boundaries
