Geography+Game+-+Kathryn

=**Learning Principles**=


 * Achievement Principle** – For learners of all levels of skill there are intrinsic rewards from the beginning, customized to each learner’s level, effort, and growing mastery and signaling the learner’s ongoing achievements.


 * Practice Principle** – Learners get lots and lots of practice in a context where the practice is not boring (i.e. in a virtual world that is compelling to learners on their own terms and where the learners experience ongoing success.


 * “Regime of Competence” Principle** – The learner gets ample opportunity to operate within, but at the outer edge of, his or her resources, so that at those points things are felt as challenging but not “undoable”.

=**Standard**=

CCSS Standard: Geography Understand and use geographic skills to interpret contemporary and historical issues. 5.7 Identify, locate, and describe places and regions in the United States.

=** Objective **=

Students will locate and name all 50 states and their capitals on a map.

=** Materials **=

Website: [] Blank USA maps with state outlines and numbered spaces for labeling. Sheet of 50 blanks for naming. Sheets of states/capitals for labeling.

=**Procedure**=
 * Students will practice their states or capitals weekly, depending on their level.**
 * There will be tests weekly, dependent on student levels. Students work at their own pace to achieve their goals.**
 * Practice will alternate between maps, flash cards, and the online game. There would be a master sheet so students can see where they are at and what their next goal is. This would be set up to run mostly independently, with students knowing what to practice next and what test to take next.**

1. Students will be given time to practice states on Sheppard Software, beginning level. 2. Students will be given time to practice states with flash cards. 3. Students will be given a sheet with 50 blanks to list all the states. 4. Students will be given a blank USA map to label the states. 5. Students will be given a blank USA map to label all the capitals.

Naming 25 states - Beginner Level 2 Naming 40 states - Beginner Level 3 Naming 50 states - Intermediate Locating 25 states - Intermediate Level 2 Locating 40 states - Intermediate Level 3 Locating 50 states - Advanced Locating 25 capitals - Advanced Level 2 Locating 40 capitals - Advanced Level 3 Locating 50 capitals - Cartographer!!
 * Student Levels (could be refined as you go) **