Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
WEEK 19 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 91–95
Read each lesson with a parent or teacher and study the worked example. Then answer the questions for that day in the Week 19 Practice Workbook.
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Day 91: Regions of the United States
A region is an area whose places share features, such as weather, land or the kinds of work people do. The United States is often divided into five regions: the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest and the West.
Alabama is in the Southeast. The Southeast has warm, wet weather, thick forests, rivers and long coasts. Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee are also in the Southeast. The Southwest has deserts and canyons, the Midwest has wide farm plains, and the West has tall mountains.
Worked example: A region has wide, flat plains where farmers grow corn and wheat. Which region is it most like?
- Wide, flat farm plains are a feature of one region.
- That region is the Midwest.
Worked answer: The Midwest.
Day 92: Words for Land and Water in Alabama
A mountain is very high land, like Cheaha Mountain. A valley is low land between hills or mountains, like the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama. A plain is wide, flat land, like the land near Alabama’s coast.
A river is water that flows across the land, like the Alabama River. A lake is water with land all around it. A bay is part of a large body of water that reaches into the land, like Mobile Bay. An island is land with water all around it, like Dauphin Island. A gulf is a very large bay of the ocean. Alabama’s coast is on the Gulf.
Worked example: What do we call low land between two mountains?
- The lesson names low land between hills or mountains.
- That landform is a valley.
Worked answer: A valley.
Day 93: Directions on a Map of Alabama
The cardinal directions are north, south, east and west. On most maps, north is at the top, south is at the bottom, east is to the right and west is to the left.
The intermediate directions are between them: northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest. To find a direction from one place to another, start at the first place and ask which way you must go to reach the second.
Worked example: On the map, Montgomery is below Huntsville. In which direction is Montgomery from Huntsville?
- Below on the map means toward the bottom.
- The bottom of the map is south.
Worked answer: South.
Day 94: Hands-On: Grid-Map Hunt
A grid map has lines that make squares. Letters name the columns across the top, and numbers name the rows down the side. To name a square, say the letter first and then the number, like B3.
Grids help people find places quickly. A road map or a map of a park may say a place is in square C2, so you know just where to look.
Worked example: A dot is in column D and row 2. How do you name its square?
- Say the letter of the column first.
- Then say the number of the row.
Worked answer: D2.
Day 95: Independent Check: Regions, Words, Directions and Grids
Today you will answer on your own.
Use what you learned this week: regions, words for land and water, directions and grid maps.
Worked example: What do we call a very large body of salt water, like the Pacific?
- The Pacific is one of five very large bodies of salt water.
- Each one is called an ocean.
Worked answer: An ocean.
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