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Grade 1 Social Studies · World 1: Map Explorers · Level 5
Where I Live
City, county, state, country, and continent, from smallest to biggest.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 5
- Places fit inside bigger places, like boxes inside boxes. Your home is inside a city or a town.
- Maya lives in the city of Macon. Macon is inside Bibb County. A county is a part of a state.
- Bibb County is one of Georgia's 159 counties. Georgia is our state.
- Georgia is one of 50 states in our country, the United States. Another word for country is nation.
- The United States is on the continent of North America. A continent is a huge piece of land.
- Your turn! Put them in order, from smallest to biggest.
- Try it with a grown-up! What is the name of your city or town? What is the name of your county? Write your own boxes: city, county, state, country, continent.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS1G2 — Identify and locate the student's city, county, state, nation (country), and continent on a simple map or a globe.