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Geography · Grade 4

United States Regions and Features

From the Sierra Nevada to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the United States crosses mountains, basins, plains, great rivers and a famous canyon. Learners place all 50 states in the five classroom regions, locate states and features with coordinates, read an elevation profile across the country, follow the Mississippi River from source to mouth, and explain how landforms and water shape the way people live and work in each region.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 minutes
  • U.S. regions and features check: 10 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

  • Place states in the five U.S. regions and locate states using neighbors, directions and coordinates.
  • Identify, locate and compare the major U.S. landforms: Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, including reading an elevation profile.
  • Locate and describe major U.S. water features: the Mississippi River and its main tributaries, the Great Lakes, the Great Salt Lake and the Grand Canyon carved by the Colorado River.
  • Explain how physical features help or challenge the ways people live, work and travel in a region.

Lessons

  1. Fifty states in five regions 8 steps4 practiceabout 20 min
  2. Mountains, plains and basins 8 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  3. Rivers, lakes and a great canyon 8 steps5 practiceabout 20 min
  4. How features shape life 7 steps4 practiceabout 20 min
  5. U.S. regions and features check 10 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 4th grade geography

Guide for grown-ups