Major Rivers of Massachusetts
Trace the paths of major Massachusetts rivers including the Connecticut, Charles, Merrimack, and Housatonic Rivers.

Trace the paths of major Massachusetts rivers including the Connecticut, Charles, Merrimack, and Housatonic Rivers.
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2nd Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS
10 lessons
Use essential map tools and spatial thinking to locate Massachusetts, explore local communities, and identify key geographic features.
On a current map of Massachusetts, use cardinal directions, map scales, legends, and titles to locate and describe the city or town where the school students attend is located, its local geographic features and historic landmarks, and their significance.
On a physical map of North America, use cardinal directions, map scales, legends, and titles to locate the Northeast region and identify important physical features (e.g., rivers, lakes, ocean shoreline, capes and bays, and mountain ranges).
contributions of a tribal group from the area of the school (e.g., language, literature, arts, trade routes, food such as corn, beans, and squash, useful items such as baskets, canoes, wampum, and useful knowledge of medicinal plants, words such as powwow and moccasin, and many names for waterways, hills, mountains, islands and place names, such as the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, Mount Wachusett, the Taconic Range, Nantucket, Natick, Seekonk, Agawam, Chicopee)