Virginia

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

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

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Virginia is located on the central Atlantic Coast of the United States and has a distinctive triangular shape. North Carolina and a small part of Tennessee are south of Virginia. The southern tip West Virginia along with a piece of Kentucky forms the angular western border of Virginia. Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean are east of Virginia while Maryland lies to the northeast. The southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula, called the Eastern Shore, belongs to Virginia. The Delmarva Peninsula is across Chesapeake Bay from the Virginia mainland and is named for the three states that occupy it: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

Early History
Archaeologists have found human bones that date to 15,000 BCE in southern Virginia and historians call these early people Paleo-Indians. Paleo-Indians hunted the now extinct mastodon. As the climate on earth changed, so did human activity. The next era of humans are called the Archaic people.

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