California regions

Get free printable worksheets to learn about California, including word search, a blank outline map of California, crosswords, and coloring pages.

I LOVE teaching about California history because I grew up in Illinois, so when I started teaching 4th grade, I learned all kinds of new things about California that I didn’t know before! And no one knows how to teach CA history better than my good friend LeAnn! She has been teaching 4th grade for […]

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I think this might be my first official 4th grade post! We are learning about the regions of California in our social studies curriculum. Lessons with Laughter had this brilliant idea of making a Ca

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What Are The Similarities And Differences Of The 4 California Regions? In this project, students are hired by the California Film Commission to persuade a Hollywood producer and team to film their movies in one of California's four regions. Students will learn about all four of California's regions and after becoming an expert on all of the regions, they will choose one region to research further. They'll create either a a region brochure or a 30 - 60 second commercial promoting their…

Where in the world is California? It is always amazing (amusing?) to me where my students THINK they live. A first pre-assessment I give is to have students draw California and label anything they know: cities, oceans, streets, etc. For some reason, it is not uncommon for many of them to label Las Vegas or another state! This is a very eye-opening and informative way for me to see what they know and still need to know! Some know to label Sacramento as the capital, while others include Target…

Regions of California with pinto bean mountains, green lentil valley, pasta shell desert and white bean coast

California Regions The Coast The Coast First, identify this region on your California map within your FlipBook! -The Coast of California is an area that covers nearly 1,300 miles. It is located between the Pacific Ocean and the mountains of the Coastal Ranges. -The largest cities

I have always loved to travel and some of my favorite childhood memories include family vacations (aka road trips) with my dad at the wheel, mom as co-pilot, and my sisters and I packed in the backseat of the car chanting, are we there yet? We didn't fly anywhere back then, so we took advantage of every opportunity to stop at those silly tourist attractions, roadside parks, Holiday Inns and STUCKEY'S! Of course, dad always missed the exit and my sisters and I would laugh and laugh about how…