Exploring South Carolina Regions
What do potting soil, sand, and playdough have in common? They all were used to help show the third graders which features make up the South Carolina regions.
Third grade teacher Angie Andrews explains, "Third graders have been learning about the six regions of South Carolina. Within each region, they have been examining the physical features (things of God and nature) and human features (things made by man). Students made colorful regions booklets and wooden maps that show how the regions represent places that have things in common. Maps include areas with sand, sand and soil, dark orange paint, and Play-Doh mountains, and blue glitter glue rivers."
When asked what he learned from the project that he didn't know before, Webb Barnes said, "I learned that each region of South Carolina is really different."
Haven Holmquest said that before this lesson she didn't realize "where the regions were or that each region had a different kind of land."
Along with the learning came the fun of the students gluing the material to the wooden state cut-outs. Steen Suddeth said that his favorite part of putting it all together was, "gluing the soil because my hands got dirty."
As Mrs. Andrews likes to say, "Hands-on learning makes third grade great fun!"
And from the "smiling eyes" of all her students, they would seem to agree.