Activities to Teach Regions of the United States

Labeling paper maps with states and regions of the United States is so last year. We’ve put together the perfect digital resource to help your students practice identifying the regions of the United States and the states found within those regions.

 With this Google Interactive activity, students are tasked to

• Identify types of maps and common vocabulary related to continents, countries, and regions.
• Label the five regions of the United States.
• Identify the states located in each of the regions of the United States (Northwest, Midwest, Southeast, Northeast, and Southwest) 

Through this activity, students will click, drag, and drop labels to match vocabulary terms, identify the regions of the United States, and label the fifty United States of America.

How to Prepare This Digital Geography Resource

Use the download button to download the Google Slides resource. Assign the activity in Google Classroom. Students will complete the activity in Edit Mode, not Presentation Mode.

Additionally, this activity can become a whole-group instructional tool by projecting it onto a screen and working through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.

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