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Geography · Grade 3

Publish a Regional Field Guide

The Grade 3 capstone. Learners plan a field guide to a region: they learn the parts of a guide, gather and sort facts about the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois from a source pack, check facts against opinions and judge which sources to trust, then write and revise a field-guide entry with map evidence. The quiz asks them to do the same for the Great Lakes region.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Field guide check: the Great Lakes region: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Gather facts about a region's land, water, climate, living things and people, and sort them into field-guide sections.
  • Tell facts from opinions and choose more reliable sources.
  • Organize a field guide with a title, a locator map, sections, captions and a source list.
  • Write and revise a field-guide entry that uses evidence and geography vocabulary.

Lessons

  1. What goes in a field guide? 4 steps2 practiceabout 20 min
  2. Gather and sort facts 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Check your sources 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Write and revise an entry 5 steps2 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Field guide check: the Great Lakes region 9 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Mapmaker QuestFollow directions to make a map, then read its legend, compass rose and scale.

More 3rd grade geography

Guide for grown-ups