Georgia SS1G2

Social Studies1st GradeGeographic Understandings

The Standard

Identify and locate the student's city, county, state, nation (country), and continent on a simple map or a globe.

Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use a local map, a United States map, and a globe to find where they live. They connect each place to the larger area around it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to and name their city, county, state, country, and continent. They can put those five places in order from smallest to largest.
Common Misconceptions: Students may confuse a city with a county or think a state is a country. They may also identify North America as the country or the United States as the continent.
How to Assess It: Give each student a local map, a United States map, and a globe. Ask them to point to and name all five places, then order the names from smallest to largest.

Lesson moves

Build a set of nesting paper circles labeled with the local city, county, state, country, and continent.
Ask students to complete and explain the sentence, “I live in ___, which is inside ___.”
Play a card sorting race where pairs arrange place cards from smallest area to largest area.
Use a weather map to find the local city and state, then locate the same area on a globe.

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