Integrative

1. Utah's Three Regions
1. Using a digital story full of pictures of the different regions of Utah the teacher will help students fill out a Venn Diagram of each region.
2. Students will explain similarities and differences they see in each region to a partner using their graphic organizers.
3. The teacher will ask the students to hypothesize how Utah's regions might be different if it's location on the earth were different, such as by an ocean.
4. The teacher will ask the students what the "big idea" of this lesson was. Students will include this summarization on their Utah Maps they've been creating on arcgis.
2. Utah's Five Major Native American Tribes
1. Using PowerPoint presentations the teacher will walk the students through the lives of Utah's five major Native American Tribes. The students will have a graphic organizer to fill out. This organizer will ask for the region of Utah where each tribe lived, their lifestyle, shelter, and their food. During the walk-through the teacher will ask questions to help students search for patters, similarities, differences etc.
2. Students will explain the similarities and differences they see in a small group using their graphic organizers. 
3. The teacher will ask the students how Utah might be different today if the Pioneers had never come and the Native Americans had been left alone. Students will hypothesize, write down their hypotheses, and then share with a partner.
4. The teacher will ask the students to generalize their conclusions. She'll ask what was the "big idea" or "main theme" the students learned from this lesson.
3. Utah in the past
1. Using a map of Utah and a description of fossils found in different counties of Utah students will label different parts of Utah. They'll label them ocean, tropical, or swampy based on which fossils were found in those different locations.
2. Students will explain the similarities and differences of the locations, the fossils, and even Utah today with a small group using their maps.
3. The teacher will ask students to hypothesize what fossils we might have found in Utah if the climate had been different. Or hypothesize how Utah would be different now if the climate had stayed the same as when the fossils were alive.
4. Students will create a podcast describing what they discovered, what the "big idea" was, and their hypotheses.