4th Grade Bordering States Place Value
Fourth graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the bordering states in Social Studies (VS.2a) and place value in math (SOL4.1a). Today students in Ms. Zimmerman’s class found the place value of the sizes of the bordering states. I posted a template to Google classroom that you can download here, and I set it so that all the students could edit it. Then I instructed them to research and find out the size of each state. The first student to find the answer wrote it in the correct cell (I explained that it’s like a race, but if they see a color in the cell, that means someone else is already in that one). We discovered that the quickest way to find the answer is to Google “size of [state name].” The template automatically creates a graph of the data. You can see their finished graph here. Next they opened a blank Google doc and selected a bordering state to write about. I showed them how to import the graph (Insert > Chart > From Sheets), and they wrote the area in written form and expanded form. You can take a look at a student sample here.