West Virginia

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

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

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
West Virginia has one of the most unusual shapes in the United States due to the topography of the land. West Virginia has two straight-line borders with Pennsylvania to the north and a straight-line border with the western edge of Maryland. All of West Virginia?s other borders are determined by land features like meandering rivers, mountains and valleys. The Potomac River forms the remainder of the border with Maryland while the Ohio River runs between West Virginia and Ohio. Kentucky is located at the southwestern edge of West Virginia.
The Allegheny Mountains, part of the extensive Appalachian Mountains that extend from Maine to Georgia, separate West Virginia from Virginia. It is the separation of Virginia from its original western section by these mountains that eventually resulted in West Virginia becoming a new state.

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