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Geography · Grade 4

Latitude, Longitude and Coordinates

A town map can use a letter–number grid, but the whole round Earth needs a grid of its own. Learners meet the equator and the prime meridian, name the four hemispheres, learn how parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude measure degrees north, south, east and west, read and write whole-degree coordinates for real cities, and use coordinates to find places on a world map.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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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 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 4

Illinois and the Great Lakes

The five Great Lakes hold about one-fifth of the world's surface fresh water, and Illinois sits on one of them. Learners compare the lakes with real data, trace a drop of water from Lake Superior to the Atlantic, discover how Ice Age glaciers scooped out the lake basins and flattened Illinois, follow the story of the Chicago Portage, the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the reversal of the Chicago River, and weigh how the lakes help people and how people help or harm the lakes.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 4

Landforms and Earth Processes

Earth's surface is always changing, sometimes in seconds and sometimes over millions of years. Learners see how weathering, erosion and deposition carved the Grand Canyon and built the Mississippi Delta, learn that Earth's outer layer is broken into moving plates that cause earthquakes and volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens and Kīlauea, and sort and order changes from fast to slow, including how people prepare for sudden ones.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 4

Climate Patterns and Human Adaptation

Why is Singapore warm all year while Chicago freezes in January, and why is Nevada a desert next to snowy mountains? Learners sort places into five climate groups, explain the controls behind them (latitude, water, elevation and mountains that make rain shadows), read climographs for made-up towns to identify their climate, and examine how people adapt to and change their environments, from adobe walls and terraces to irrigation and air conditioning, with benefits and costs.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 4

Resources, Settlement and Transportation

Illinois sits on some of the richest farmland in the world, on top of coal and beside the Great Lakes and great rivers. Learners sort renewable and non-renewable resources, map Illinois's resources, discover why towns such as Galena, Peoria, Rock Island and Chicago grew where they did, read Chicago's population growth from a chart, and compare barges, trains, trucks and planes to explain why transportation hubs grow.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 4

Compare Thematic Maps

A thematic map shows one theme, such as landforms, borders, people, climate, land use or resources. Learners choose the right map for a question, read a shaded map's key and sort real 2020 census populations into its classes, compare two maps of a made-up region to find a pattern, and learn that two matching patterns do not prove that one causes the other. They finish by writing a careful, evidence-based claim.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 4

Design a Responsible Regional Plan

The Grade 4 capstone. Made-up Willow County needs room for 200 new homes and a new park, but it also has a river that floods, a wetland full of wildlife and some of the best farmland in the state. Learners study how people and places shape each other, read the county's planning map for evidence, listen to stakeholders, score three sites against criteria, see how the best choice changes when some criteria count more, and write a recommendation that admits its trade-offs.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions