Texas geography, regions of Texas, habitats, Great Plains, Texas Prairies, Mississippi River Basin, the Pineywoods of East Texas, the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, the Coastal Plains, the Chihuahua desert, the South Texas Plain, the Wild Horse desert, the Rocky Mountains, the Mountains and Basins, the Trans-Pecos, Big Bend.  4th Grade Social Studies

A PLACE CALLED TEXAS

A geography lesson

THIS IS A POWER POINT PRESENTATION. DOWNLOAD THE SLIDES. THE CENTRAL IDEA IS THAT TO UNDERSTAND TEXAS GEOGRAPHY, ITS LARGER REGIONAL CONTEXT NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD FIRST. THE CURRENT BORDERS OF TEXAS ARE NOT A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR. THIS EXTENDS LATER TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE THAT SETTLED IN TEXAS.

Student activity: Locate the five large context regions that converge in Texas: The Great Plains, The Mississippi River Basin, The Gulf of Mexico coastline, the Chihuahua Desert and the Rocky Mountains.

Map for student activity: locate five habitat-regions of Texas and label them: Prairies (Panhandle, Central Prairies and Hill Country), The East Texas Pineywoods, The Coastal Plain, The South Texas Desert Plain (Wild Horse Desert), and Mountains and Basins (Big Bend, Trans-Pecos)