My Favorite Region
1. Students begin a social studies lesson regarding different climates and regions of the world. Students discuss, forests, deserts, tropical/jungles, polar/tundra, and grassland/plains.
2. Students will use information they get from using text books, CD encyclopedias, Internet websites, and classroom bulletin boards, to design a picture of their favorite region on the computer.
3. Students put together their pictures using some program like Kid Pix, MS Paint, or some other drawing program.
4. Students are not allowed to use the pencil or paintbrush tools while making their pictures. They should be able to create almost any picture using the straight line, paint bucket, rectangle, and oval tools.
5. As an example of how these objects can be used, a cactus can be created by putting together 3 or more ovals, a pine tree by connecting 3 straight lines into a triangle and filing it with green.
6. These pictures can be printed and put together on a bulletin board focusing in on a particular region or regions.
Alternative Instruction:
· Regions can be regions of the world, or of a particular state, like Arizona’s: desert, mountain, and forest/plateau regions.
· Pictures can be made using these tools of almost any scenic picture, including city pictures, street pictures, pictures of cars, boats, plains, and many things.