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Catherine McMahon
Geography US States
Standards: State and/or Common Core
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other
information in print and digital texts
Map reading skills
Subject(s) of the lesson
US States and Capitals
Additional materials you will use and how will you use them.
Students will have pens, markers or highlighters, individual blank paper map of the northeast and
students will take turns using the smartboard
Evaluation Strategies
Informal evaluations will be made during this lesson but a larger assessment will be given
throughout and at the end of the unit. Students will be informally asked to fill in blank maps trough
out the unit to progress monitor learning and to help students study. The final assessment will
require students to correctly locate and identify capitals in all fifty states.