United States Research Project

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Today, I wanted to share one of the research projects I organized for my third grade dual-language students a few years ago.  When I taught dual-language, I taught the English portion, primarily math and language arts.  While the students didn't have social studies with me, I was still required as a part of the program to provide my kiddos with a research center.  In order to keep it fairly well organized, I gave the students a different topic to research each six weeks.  I chose the 50 states for this project, because I have found over the years that my students (both dual-language AND regular program) have a really hard time understanding where in the world they are.  They have difficulty distinguishing between cities and states and countries and I wanted to hone in on that.

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States Research Project

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