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Reinforcing Activity
 * // Letters from Felix: A Little Rabbit on a World Tour //**

Strand: Geography Topic: Places and Regions Content Statement: 6. Regions can be determined using various criteria (e.g., landform, climate, population, cultural or economic).

Benchmark Grades: 3-5 Benchmark A: Use map elements or coordinates to locate physical and human characteristics of North America. Benchmark B: Identify the physical and human characteristics of places and regions in North America. Benchmark C: Identify and explain ways people have affected the physical environment of North America and analyze the positive and negative consequences. Benchmark D: Analyze ways that transportation and communication relate to patterns of settlement and economic activity.

First I will identify all the places that Felix travels to prior to reading the book. In doing so, the students can fill out the first section of the KWL chart to elicit their prior knowledge on these places. Then they will fill out the second section, which identifies what they want to know about these places. Then after they have completed the pre-reading activity I will use a world map to identify and mark where each place is in relation to each other. After identifying the location of each city, I will finally read the book //Letters from Felix: A Little Rabbit on a World Tour// aloud to the class. While reading this they will fill out the third section of the KWL chart and identify how Felix traveled from one place to another and characteristics of each. After having completed all of this as an entire class I will provide time for groups of two or three to work on the computer and go to []. This website is called Felix’s Classroom and directly relates to the book. Once there they will go to the section called Task and they will complete the first task, which is called Travel with Felix. I will provide them with the worksheet that is provided on the website that relates to all of the places that Felix travels to. They will then take a more in-depth look at each city and will fill out the worksheet as they go, since the questions pertain to each city that he travels to. Then at the end of all of this and they have completed the worksheet we will review their KWL charts and worksheets.