Standards: History of the United States and New York Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate

their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. Geography Student will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we livelocal, national, and globalincluding the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earths surface. ISTE for Students Standards: - Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats - Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media - Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks - Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity - Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Lesson Objective(s): Students will demonstrate understanding of the geography of the United States. Students will be able to identify and locate the individual states and their capitals. Students will work together to label the states and capitals that they are assigned to by using Microsoft Paint. Students will work individually to complete a web quiz locating and naming the each of state of the United States and their capital cities to the best of their ability.

Students will display an understanding of the technology they are being asked to use to complete the web quiz. Introduce the Learning Activity: I will communicate the lesson objectives to the students by using a few moments of the beginning of the class give a brief agenda of what we are going to do in class today. I will ask each student where they are from originally, and emphasize the importance of understanding geography, especially our own countrys geography. This is meant to be a review for students about knowing their US states and their capitals. To get the students motivated into the lesson going to connect to their childhood by showing them a cartoon that identify all fifty states and their capitals I am going to separate the class into small groups and have them work together to label the states and capitals that they are assigned too. To increase motivation in the room, I will have students individually take an online quiz testing their geographical knowledge on the fifty states and their capitals. When students have the opportunity to succeed they are more eager to learn. Provide Information: I will show my students the cartoon musical video reviewing the fifty states and their capitals. I will provide instruction for students to group up in threes. From there they will copy and paste a colored coded map of the United States onto Microsoft Paint. Students then will label the states and capital cities that are assigned to them. From there each group will discuss their findings and I will do a short lecture on the creation of the United States including a review all the states names and capitals. Then students will be directed to individual take online quizzes testing their knowledge about U.S. geography. Provide Practice: Students will demonstrate Students will demonstrate understanding of the geography of the United States. They will do this by completing the group work to the best of their ability. In small groups they will have to label the states and capital cities to the colored coded section they are assigned to. Then they will be tested of their knowledge of the states and capitals with two online quizzes on the fifty states and their capitals.

Provide Knowledge of Results: I will encourage students to continue working hard if they are succeeding, and help them along if they are on their way to the goal. Each student will receive a participation credit for this class period. This will be shown on each classroom quarterly report card I produce for the students. Review the Activity: Students will demonstrate their understanding of sentence types and structures in their future writing assignments. I do not expect every student to completely understand the concepts immediately, but throughout the year, their understanding should evolve. Review the Activity: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the states of the USA and state capitals their future projects and assessments. I do not expect every student to immediately get the geography down packed, but throughout the year, their understanding should evolve. Method of assessment: I will observe the students as they interact with each other during the group work activity of labeling certain states and capitals. Their conversation will help me determine if they are beginning to understand of the subject at hand. Then students will be assessed on what they have learned through two online quizzes testing their knowledge about states and capitals. Participation will be a pass/fail grade. Students participation in the online quizzes will also be graded on a pass/fail basis