Louisiana

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

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

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Louisiana is one of the southern states that borders on the Gulf of Mexico. This location makes the coastal areas prone to hurricanes and only Florida experiences more hurricanes than Louisiana. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and the surrounding area, causing tens of thousands of residents to move to other areas of the United States. Louisiana has three neighboring states: Texas to the west; Arkansas to the north; and Mississippi to the east.

Early History
Some of earliest artifacts of prior civilizations in the Western Hemisphere exist at Poverty Point State Historic Site and Poverty Point National Monument in Louisiana. Radiocarbon dating of the artifacts shows that they originated between 1800 and 1400 BCE. The city at Poverty Point once covered 400 acres. Like other such ancient civilizations, archaeologists don?t know what happened to the people.

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