North

America
KHYAH EDWARDS

Content Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 4

Summary: The purpose of this power point is to have the students

understand important facts about North America.

Learning Objective: Given facts, a website, and a video that

contain facts about North America, students will need to interpret
the material within the websites to answer the questions within the
PowerPoint with 100 percent accuracy.

Content Standard: 5.0: History involves people, events, and

issues. Students will evaluate evidence to develop comparative
and causal analyses, and to interpret primary sources. They will
select and apply digital tools to collect, organize, and analyze data
to evaluate theories or test hypotheses.

Facts:

There Are 23 Countries in North America.

North America is named after an Italian Explorer named Amerigo

Vespucci. Vespucci was the first European who thought that the
Americas were not the East Indies, as had previously been
assumed, but an entirely different landmass. In honor of this, his
German companions decided to name the continent after him.

There Are 965 species of mammal in North America.

Mexico City Is the Largest city in North America.

Explore this website to obtain more facts and information about

the continent North America: http://facts.net/north-america-facts/

Videos

Watch this video to see pictures of some of the different

species and their names: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ml5D83Ko8

You will need to choose one animal (completely your

choice) from the video to research more about for a project
you will do in the near future.

Photos:

Question

What is the name of the Italian explorer North America is named

after?

Christopher Columbus
Martin Waldseemller
Vladimir Wilson
Amerigo Vespucci

Correct.

Yes, Amerigo Vespucci is the Italian explorer who discovered the

unclaimed land now known as America. His fellow companions
named this land after Vespucci in honor of him.

Question

What is the largest city in North America?

Texas
Mexico City
New York City
Los Angeles

Correct

Yes, Mexico City is the largest city located in North America.

Question

How many mammal species are located in North America?

50
500
965
1,250

Correct

Yes, there are 965 species of mammal in North America.

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Summary

In this lesson the students will have learned some of the major
facts of the continent of North America. They will have watched a
video that displays different animals located in North America,

Students will have also obtain an animal to study for a research

project.

The students will have read and taken notes from this PowerPoint
that they will be tested over at the end of this unit.

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