Integrated Literacy Assignment Use thematic maps to identify and describe the physical and human characteristics of Michigan

I Am a Michigan Man- Mike Ridley Song I Am a Michigan Man- Mike Ridley

Maps Michigan Surface Elevation Physical Characteristic     Michigan Surface Elevation Physical Characteristic Michigan Population Human Characteristic

Books Michigan Jography: A Fun Run Through Our State Michigan Portraits of the States By: Muriel Dubois and Jonatha Brown Pg. 14-21 Michigan By: Jan Mader

Video Two Peninsulas Called Michigan

Water, Water, Everywhere Michigan Historical Center Lesson Plan Lessons Water, Water, Everywhere   

Poem Michigan Map Poem Saginaw Bay is the crook of a mitten. Port Hope is right up near the thumb. Manistee sits right where you'd put your pinky. The Lansing spot taps on a drum. Sturgis is south, at the base of the wrist and there's Mackinac at the tip top. There are so many cities in Michigan's mitten. Recite them and you'll never stop. Mount Pleasant, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Adrian, Midland and Frost, Alpena, Kalkaska, Boyne City and Bath. Keep driving until you get lost. The mitten is grand, it is large, it is super, but down there you'll never get close to a yooper. A yooper's a person who's from the U.P. The part of the state where there's much more to see. There's Laurium, Skandia, Limestone and Tula, Marquette, Iron Mountain and Gay. There's Drummond and White Pine and Greenland and Johnsville and Witch Lake and Keweenaw Bay. So go for a ride, get out there exploring no matter how long it might take. And if you get finished with finding the cities, then next you can look for the lakes . . . by Denise Rodgers

MICHIGAN BINGO! Geography edition This game has cards with facts about Michigan’s Geography. For example one of the card states “Michigan’s varies with its Upper Peninsula experiencing far colder winters than in the Lower Peninsula.” The answer on their bingo card would be “climate”. The teacher could talk about how climate is a natural characteristic of Michigan and show them a map of climate .

Workbook Michigan Map Skill and Information Workbook

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Michigan historical center lesson plan Michigan historical center lesson plan. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from http://seekingmichigan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Geography-lesson.pdf The People of three fires. (2011). In Detroit historical society . Retrieved October 17, 2015, from https://detroithistorical.org/buildingdetroit/curriculum_3fires.php Rodgers, D. Michigan poetry. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from http://www.funny-poems-for-free.com/michigan-poetry.html Social studies / grade 3 MC3 unit 1-geography page 2. (2015, October 8). Retrieved October 21, 2015, from http://www.eup.k12.mi.us/page/1353 Thematic world maps. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from http://www.sitesatlas.com/Thematic-Maps/ Unit 1: The Geography of Michigan. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from https://gomaisa-public.rubiconatlas.org/Atlas/Develop/UnitMap/View/Default?BackLink=97961&UnitID=18956&YearID=2016&CurriculumMapID=44