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

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

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

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

5. Video
Two Peninsulas Called Michigan

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

7. 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

8. 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 .

9. Workbook
Michigan Map Skill and Information Workbook

10. Poster

11. Website
Thematic World Maps
Kids Map

12. Works Cited
Deur, V. (Director). (2007). Two peninsulas called Michigan [Motion picture on DVD]. River Road Publications. Dubois, M., & Brown, J. (2006). Michigan. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub. Janemcvideo. (2011, Feb 11). The Official "Michigan Man Music Video" by Mike Ridley. Retrieved from Kids Maps – Reviewed map resources (Safe sites and Images for kids to learn geography). Retrieved October 21, 2015, from Mader, J. (2003). Michigan. New York: Children's Press. Marsh, C. (2001). Michigan bingo: Geography Edition. S.l.: Gallopade Intl. Marsh, C. (2000). The Michigan experience poster/map! Gallopade Intl. Marsh, C. (2001). Michigan "Jography": A fun run through our state! Atlanta, Georgia: Gallopade Pub. Group. McCreary, P. (2004). Michigan map skills & information workbook (10th ed.). Hillsdale, Mich.: Hillsdale Educational. McConnell, D. (2010). Activity 2: Water, water, everywhere. In Michigan Student Desktop Map Activities ML-3 for Grade 3 (pp ). HIllsdale, Michigan: Hillsdale Education. McConnell, S., & McConnell, D. (2004). Michigan map skills: Teacher’s guide. Hillsdale, Mich.: Hillsdale Educational.

13. Michigan historical center lesson plan
Michigan historical center lesson plan. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from The People of three fires. (2011). In Detroit historical society . Retrieved October 17, 2015, from Rodgers, D. Michigan poetry. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from Social studies / grade 3 MC3 unit 1-geography page 2. (2015, October 8). Retrieved October 21, 2015, from Thematic world maps. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from Unit 1: The Geography of Michigan. Retrieved October 21, 2015, from