4th Grade People Groups
Today fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary created maps showing where the different people groups settled in Virginia (VS.4b). The maps could have been created with Pixie or even Google Maps, but since this class hadn’t used Comic Life yet, I wanted to show them how to use that program. So I gave them a template and some clip art to use that you can download by clicking here. They dragged the clipart onto the template, placing the American Indians, the English, and the African Americans in the correct places on the map of Virginia. Then using speech bubbles the students identified the various people groups and the regions where they primarily settled. You can try an interactive version of this activity on the Virginia Trekkers website.