- Grade Level: - Fourth Grade - Social Studies, Writing - 30-45
minutes - Group Size: - Up to 36 - National/State Standards: -
Social Studies: 1, 1a,1b,3a, 5 OverviewThis lesson engages
students to determine important locations and creatively develop
their own names for places around the school. Enduring
Understanding: There is a history to how locations got their
names. Essential Question: What events or people can influence
the naming of a location? The students will learn to: 1)
Understand how pioneers generated place names 2) use creative
skills to generate their own place names 3) determine important
features of localized geographic area "A trail led from Natchez
northward and eastward through forests of oak and hickory and
pine, through can thickets and swamps, to Nashville on the
Cumberland, 500 miles away. The trail had many names. The
southern part followed Indian paths to the farm villages of the
Choctaws. English men of the 1770's therefore spoke of the Path
to the Choctaw Nation. The northern part