California Content Standard for Geography

Grade 3

Standards

1. Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes).
2. Trace the ways in which people have used the resources of the local region and modified the physical environment (e.g., a dam constructed upstream changed a river or coastline).

Activities

• Suggest our JigsawGeo iPhone map game to your parents. They can find it on the AppStore by searching for "JigsawGeo".
• Print out our free  USA map.  It has multiple sheets to support various learning outcomes related to the geography of the United States. You may photocopy it freely to use in your class.
• Have students color the states using a legend such as major industry types or a heat map such as population (they can use the State Population data from wikipedia)
• Teach map reading skills with the final sheet of the map, which shows latitude and longitude, along with a distance scale and a compass.
• Use the map to learn where California is located in relation to other states.
• Use it for a quiz (have your students find California and a few other states)
• Use it as a coloring page -- have your students color in California and each state where they have a relative.

Grade 5

Standards

Activities

• Suggest our JigsawGeo iPhone map game to your parents. The Easy level challenges them to place all 50 states in their correct positions in the lowest time. The Difficult level gives the name of the capital instead of the name of the state! Parents can find it on the AppStore by searching for "JigsawGeo".
• Use our USA Fifty States Flash Cards to learn the name of each state along with its capital.
• Print out our free  USA map.  It has two pages (one with the state names, the other without).  You may photocopy it freely to use in your class.
• Hand out the labeled page as a study aid.
• Use it for a quiz (have your students label each state properly).