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=Target Audience: 4th grade = ===Content Area: Social Studies ===Common Core Standards Addressed:
 * Understand political, topographical and historical maps, aerial photos and maps.
 * Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions
 * Understand ways regional, ethnic, and national cultures influence individuals' daily lives.
 * Understand how people from different cultures think about and deal with their physical environment and social conditions.

Wiki Objective: To serve as a collaborative space for students to share their learnings of the 5 U.S. regions, including providing a place to collaborate new ideas for research and presentation, as well as feedback of peers travel journals, Voicethread videos, and writings. Goals: Students will use this wiki to collaborate ideas with others to create a Voicethread about one place on the region tour. Context: After studying each region of the United States, students will collaborate their thoughts on what was the most important things about each place we visited.

====Engagement Rules: While you may not be within the four walls of the classroom when you post or edit the wiki, remember to follow the classroom rules and be respectful to everyone. Each member of the group is expected to contribute to the wiki and will be graded on participation. Students can add to other groups pages, but should not delete any information from other's pages.====

1. **Choose your destination:**
The first day, students will write down which stop from the region tour they will want to explore further and why. They will write this on the exploration page. From there, they will decide which four other people will be in their group for creating their presentation. Teacher will help facilitate, if there is a discrepency. Students will also create their own page for discussion and collaborating information about their location.

2. Collaboration:
The next three days will be spent collaborating ideas on what important things stood out to you from that location regarding history, geography, economics, or political issues. Students will create a new page on the wiki representing their stop. Important things that stood out to you: Historically in this region- Geographic feature- Economics Political

Students should add pictures, videos, reflections from their travel journals, and anything else they have researched that is relevant to their stop.

__ 4. Video Creation: __
====The next day, students will create their Voicethread, hi-lighting the important things that stood out to them from their stop and how this place has impacted history, geography, economics, or politics.====

The final day, students will upload their Voicethread to Google Earth, as well as add a placemarker to the location in which the Voicethread refers.
Timeline: As we work through the Region Tour, each section needs to be completed before we move on to the next region-specific dates will be posted on the wiki as the duration of each unit my be subject to change.

This is an example of our entire year in S.S. and each place we visit on our Regions tour: Just click the link below and then scroll down and click on each region to get the specifics. Region Tour More Information about the tour