Georgia

Summary
A lesson on the state of Georgia. The reading is accompanied by true/false questions.

Objectives
• To introduce students to salient features about the state of Georgia and its history.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Georgia is located on the southern Atlantic Coast of the United States. Georgia is separated from South Carolina to the northeast by the Savannah River. Tennessee and North Carolina share Georgia?s northern border; Alabama makes the western border while Florida lies to the south. The Okefenokee Swamp covers 950 square miles of southern Georgia near the Atlantic Ocean; this is the second largest freshwater swamp in the United States.

Early History
The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and 400 men arrived in Florida in 1539. These early European explorers traveled through the Florida peninsula and crossed through the middle of present-day Georgia from the southwest corner to the Savannah River at the east edge of Georgia. They then continued for nearly two more years exploring present-day South Carolina, Tennessee, to the Mississippi River and beyond. They encountered several Native American groups in Georgia. These Native American groups eventually merged into two main tribes.

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