Social Studies Quarter 2 Learning Objectives: The Southeast and Midwest Regions of the U.S.

Quarter 2 begins November 9th and runs through the end of January.  Our first unit of study this quarter, Unit 3, will focus on the Southeast Region.  Students will take a virtual tour, learn the state names and the names of each state's capital, and the locations of each of the southeastern states on the map.  They will focus on these essential questions:
What defines the Southeast region?

How does geography affect life in the Southeast region?

In unit 4 we will begin our study of the Midwest.  Another virtual tour will enable us to focus on the region's importance agriculturally, as "the nation's breadbasket."  Students will focus their study on these essential questions:


What defines the Midwest region?
 How has the Midwest changed over time?

 

 

 



 

Southeast Region States and Capitals

Do you know your capitals?
Atlanta
Baton Rouge
Charleston
Columbia
Frankfort
Jackson
Little Rock
Montgomery
Nashville
Raleigh
Richmond
Talahassee


Terms from Ch. 6
1. ancestor
 2. oil rigs
3. petrochemicals
4. tourists
5. civil rights movement
6. petroleum
7. swamp
8. segregation
9. bayou
10. jazz11. hurricane
12. plantation
13. delta
14. blues
15. Cajuns
16. savanna
17. hurricane
18. Sunbelt
19. mineral
20. strip mine

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