1. Arkansas Geography
Photo by Noel Pennington, 2014

2. The world is divided into countries.
What are some examples of countries? What country do we live in?
The world is divided into countries.

3. Our country is divided into states.
What states do you know? What state do we live in? Who can find Arkansas?
Our country is divided into states.

4. Our state is divided into counties.
What counties do you know? What county do you live in? Can you find it?
Our state is divided into counties.

5. Arrange in order.
biggest
country
county
world
state
smallest

6. Our country is _______________. Our state is _________________.
Our county is _______________.
Our city is __________________.
Our school is ________________.
Imagine someone asks you where you go to school. If you are in Australia, you may say, “I go to school in the United States.” If you are in Texarkana, you may say, “I go to school in Little Rock.” If you’re at the grocery store and someone asks, you may say, “I go to Caldwell Elementary.”

7. Relative location – Site of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (e.g., northwest, downstream)
What are some relative location words?
What if the person doesn’t know where you’re talking about? You may give them relative location clues. For example, “I live in Arkansas. It is north of Louisiana.”

8. Border State Song, to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Missouri is on top,
Louisiana's down below,
Oklahoma’s to the left,
Though in the corner
Texas shows,
Tennessee is right,
On top of Mississippi,
The river that separates
Makes the border kind of wiggily,
6 states border Arkansas
And I can name them all!
Missouri
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana

9. Border State Song, to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Missouri is on top,
Louisiana's down below,
Oklahoma’s to the left,
Though in the corner
Texas shows,
Tennessee is right,
On top of Mississippi,
The river that separates
Makes the border kind of wiggily,
6 states border Arkansas
And I can name them all!

10. Play “I Spy” in your classroom
Play “I Spy” in your classroom. When a person gets the answer wrong, respond with a relative location clue.
I Spy

11. Missouri
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana

12. Where are the states that border Arkansas? Use relative location words.

13. What kind of maps can you think of. What is it used for
What kind of maps can you think of? What is it used for? What are things you may see on a map?
Conversation

14. climate map
shows information such as rain and snowfall amounts, temperatures, and weather patterns. (1)
What could you do with this map? What couldn’t you do?

15. physical map
Map that shows mountains, rivers, valleys, oceans, and other natural features (2)
What could you do with this map? What couldn’t you do?

16. political map
Map that shows the boundaries of counties, states, and countries. They often include cities and areas of water as well.
What could you do with this map? What couldn’t you do?

17. What kind of map is this?
Climate map

18. What kind of map is this?
Kind of tricky… it has borders AND physical features! But it’s more considered a physical map, since it is primarily to show physical features.

19. What kind of map is this?

20. What kind of map is this?

21. What kind of map is this?

22. What kind of map is this?
Library of Congress:

23. Let’s read

25. Population map, with red having the most people, and dark green having the least amount of people

26. Have you ever been lost? How did you feel? Would a map have helped?
Conversation

27. What does a map have on it?
Examples: title, compass rose, scale, legend
compass rose
title
legend
scale
Map courtesy of Washington State Deptartment of Transportation, found on Flickr

28. What are the directions?

31. St. Francis River
White River
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Red River
Ouachita River

32. “Real Owls Are Wise,” Says Mother White River St. Francis River
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Red River
Ouachita River