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**Activity Topic: ** Geography - PA  **Grade Level **: 4
 * Student Name **: Amanda Shaffer


 * Materials:** Play-dough, blue yarn, paper dots, blank PA map, blank laminated sheets

 Using play-dough, yarn, and dots, the students will place the major rivers, cities and mountains on the map of Pennsylvania. They will then create their own state or nation on the blank sheet. They can use the play-dough to make the landforms, yarn or blue play-dough to make rivers and dots to make the cities.
 * Learning objective:**

 1. The teacher will give each student a blank PA map, some yarn, play-dough and paper dots.  2. The teacher will then instruct the students to add the mountains and landforms to the map using the play-dough. Then they will add the rivers with yarn, and the main cities with dots. The students can check their work with the completed PA map that is available.  3. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After the students complete their PA map, they will be able to create their own state. They will use the play-dough to add landforms (mountains, plateaus, ridges, valleys, etc.) and the shape of their state to the blank paper. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They will then use yarn or blue play-dough to add rivers, and dots to add cities. The students will give their state a name and label any landforms, rivers or cities that they put in their state. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The teacher can assess the students by correcting their completed map of PA. The teacher can also assess the students work by looking at their made up state and making sure that their labels are correct. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * Activity Description:**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Assessmen **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">t: