It's a good thing this is only a draft! I have tried a lot of different techniques, and it took me a little while to get aquatinted with the Notebook software. I pulled together a review of different Wisconsin counties. The one thing I wanted to do and couldn't figure out was create a puzzle with the counties by cutting apart a map of them. I couldn't figure out how to edit pictures, but hopefully for my next draft I will be more familiar with the software and know how to do that. For now, I have a few different memorizing techniques that will help the students review. The slides get progressively harder , starting with matching, fill in the blanks, and then writing in the names with out any prompts. The Interactive white board allows the students to get involved and drag the names to the counties and fill in the blanks or label directly on a blank map.
I decided to do this lesson because I have my observational hours with a 4th grade teacher in Price county and part of their fourth grade curriculum is learning all of Wisconsin's counties. He is willing to let me use my SMART board lesson as a review before his students test.
Their curriculum fits into the social studies performance standard: A.4.5: Use atlases, databases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to gather information about the local community, Wisconsin, the United States, and the world
Learning the names of counties will help them further study Wisconsin communities and maps later. I still remember when I learned counties and it especially help me when look at the the weather since those announcements come out by county.
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