Set Induction/Anticipatory Set:
Ask the students if they know what a border of a country is. Tell them that some countries have laws that restrict the immigration of people who are not citizens of the country. In other countries you must present a passport before you can enter the country.

Instruction/Teaching to the Objective:
Tell the students that it will help them form the mental picture of their state if they can learn the counties along the border.

Guided Practice:
Model how you would draw the name of a border county from the hat and recite 5 adjacent counties that are also along the border in the clockwise direction. Using the 50 states as an example, if you select Texas from the hat you would say: New Mexico, Arizona,California, Oregon and Washington).

Independent Practice:
Have the students line up to draw a county name from the hat. After they have recited the 5 adjacent counties that are along the border they will put the county name in the discard pile and go to the end of the line. Students will move up in the line and draw the next county name from the hat. When all county names have been used, put the discarded names back into the hat and continue the rotation of students.

Closure:
Tell the students that this is one way to review and get a better picture of the location of the counties.

EVALUATION:
This should be a fun exercise. Students may look at the wall map during the first ½ of the activity.

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
Names of all counties along the border of your state (cut them up and put them in a hat). Lesson will take from ½ to one full class period.

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