Hind Ahmed

CIS-221-97

States and Capitals

Grade 6th

Subject Social Studies

Length of Lesson 1 hour

Lesson
Overview/Rationale Students will strengthen command of Social Studies by
recognizing each state and it’s capital. Students will work in groups of 3.

Curriculum
Framework/Standard

● Common Core: State of Michigan -Social Studies

● Grade 6: Geographical Habits of Mind
● “Use maps and other geographic tools to acquire and process information from a
spatial perspective.”
● “Use maps, globes, and web based geography technology to investigate the
world at global, interregional, regional, and local scales.”
● Page 35:
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/SS_COMBINED_August_2015_4965
57_7.pdf

Learning Objectives
● Students will be able to Identify a state
● Students will be able to recognize a capital
● Students will be able to demonstrate each State shape

Technology Uses
● Computer
● Projector/ presentation software
● Microsoft PowerPoint

Materials
● Notebooks
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● Writing Utensils
Procedures
● Teacher will present the book “50 States” via PowerPoint
presentation
● Students will get into groups of three
● Each group will explore six states from the book and write facts
about each state
● One student in each group will find facts
● One student in each group will identify the capitals
● One student in each group will list the states
● Each group will create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that
contains each state and capital along with a fact
Assessment
● I checked for understanding during the activity by looking at their
lined paper and seeing if they have identified each state and
capital and a few facts for each.
● Each group will be evaluated on their Microsoft PowerPoint that
contains the fifty states and their capitals.

Beginning Developing Exemplary

Participation Students did not Students worked Students worked

work as a team. together but got off very well as a team.
0 Points task several times. They discussed
3 Points their facts and were
not off task.
5 Points

Spelling and Unacceptable Minimal spelling No spelling and/or

grammar number of spelling and/or grammar grammar mistakes.
and/or grammar mistakes. 5 Points
mistakes. 3 Points
0 Points

Notes Students did not Students recorded Students recorded

take any notes. their states and their notes about
0 Points capitals but notes every state and
were missing. capital. Notes were
5 points very detailed.
10 Points
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PowerPoint Powerpoint was not Powerpoint was Powerpoint is very

Presentation organized or neat. missing some organized.
Students did not information and Students presented
explain their facts students had a hard the information very
properly but put in time explaining well and seem to
effort to. their facts. understand the
5 points 10 Points project.
20 Points

Total Points: /40