United States Geography & U.S. Regions EDITABLE Interactive Notebook & Test

Support upper elementary students’ reading skills with this U.S. Geography and its Regions Interactive Notebook. This editable unit is a complete study of United States Geography, including interactive activities, maps, vocabulary, graphic organizers, and assessment. Students will explore physical geography, such as mountains and rivers, and the regions of the United States. 

This interactive notebook includes activities, maps, and organizers on the following topics:

• United States Map Activity
• Vocabulary
• Essential Questions
• Cause & Effect
• My Bedroom – mapping activity
• Latitude & Longitude
• Relative & Absolute Location
• GIS: Geographic Information System
• Solve Local Problems
• U.S. Territories
• Lowlands & Highlands: Atlantic Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, Gulf Coastal Plain, Central Lowlands, and the Great Plains.
• Waterways, Mountains & Plateaus: The Mississippi River, The Great Lakes & the St. Lawrence Seaway, Western Mountain Ranges (Rocky, Cascade, and Sierra Nevada Mountains), the Continental Divide, and Plateaus & Canyons (Mojave Desert and the Grand Canyon.)
• The Northeast – mapping activity
• The Southeast– mapping activity
• The Midwest– mapping activity
• The Southwest– mapping activity
• The West– mapping activity
• Vocabulary Flashcards
• Unit Test
• Blank U.S. Map

Students often struggle to determine what information is important in a nonfiction text. These organizers have topics and guiding questions on them, which helps students identify the main ideas and key details in their text. This interactive notebook could either be used in social studies or when teaching nonfiction reading skills in language arts.

There are 32 pages of activities, plus a complete answer key. A chapter test is included. File includes both a PDF version and an editable PowerPoint version of the unit.

All text in the unit is editable, although the organizers and clipart are not. Teachers can edit the topics and questions so they better fit their informational texts.

Worried about prep? The included organizers are designed to save prep time. They are easy-to cut shapes and the pages are arranged so there is as little cutting as possible.

Teachers Love It!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“This resource is chock full of geographical information. Students love coloring the pages and gluing into their interactive notebooks.” – Amy Sakowitz

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“My students loved this resource! It was easy to use and I love how the writer organized the work so that it is easy for me as a teacher to implement in the classroom. It is 100% aligned with my curriculum, which I absolutely love. I also think that the students learned a lot more by using this product. It can be challenging making Social Studies fun and engaging for students, but this resource absolutely helps you to do that.” – Angela H. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"We are using this as a supplement to organize our new learning after finishing a section in our social studies textbook. It is really helping students to focus on the most important information and organize their ideas so that they can use their new learning when working through the "big picture" questions." - Casandra R.

*Please note, this unit includes the same activities as my United States Geography Digital Interactive Notebook, but these graphic organizers are designed to be copied, cut, and pasted. Teachers may want to use both versions with students to meet different needs. 

*This resource is meant to be used with a textbook or as teacher-led notes. If teachers need informational texts for their students, my U.S. Geography Flipbook covers the same material. A PDF correlating the text lessons and the notebook activities is included.

This unit covers the Florida standards for 5th grade social studies, which is U.S. Geography and U.S. History through Westward Expansion. This unit focuses on the geography standards.

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