2. Content Area: Science
Grade Level: 3
Summery: The purpose of this power point is to make students familiar with the 4 great
lakes and know characteristics, making it easy for one to identify them.
Learning Objective: Given websites and notes to write down about major water land
forms, students will play jeopardy after the presentation in groups, answering questions
with 100 percent accuracy.
Content standard: GLE 0307.7.1 Use information and illustrations to identify the
earth’s major landforms and water bodies.
Accomplishments: SPI 0307.7.1 Classify landforms and bodies of water according to
their geological features and identify them on a map.
3. Which 5 are right?
Great lakes Great fakes
Take turns dragging the different lakes into the appropriate boxes:
Ontario Holmes Erie Michigan Huron Superior
Pickwick Kentucky
4. The Correct Answers:
Great Lakes: Great fakes:
Huron Pickwick
Ontario Kentucky
Michigan Homes
Erie
Superior
5. There are 5 great
lakes.
• Huron
• Ontario
• Michigan
• Erie
• Superior
All of the lakes are located in the north eastern area in
the united states.
Here is a website for you to explore some facts about the great lakes and to take notes from each
lake http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/
6. The 5 great lakes can be
remembered through a simple
acronym:
H.O.M.E.S
The definition for acronym can be found here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
acronym
7. Lake Huron
Lake Huron is the
second largest Great
Lake by surface area
and the fifth largest
freshwater lake in the
world.
http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/huron.html
For our game at the end you will need to explore
this website to gather information on Lake Huron.
8. Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario: easternmost,
smallest in surface area
For more information on Lake Ontario: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_
Ontario
9. Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is the third
largest of the great lakes and the
6th largest lake in the world!
To learn more on Lake
Michigan: http://www.lakemichiganangler.com
/info/info.htm
10. Lake Erie: fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five
tenth largest globally
southernmost
shallowest
smallest by volume.
To research Lake Erie more: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:La
ke-Erie.svg&page=1
11. Lake Superior
• Largest of the 5
• Northern most great lake
More facts of lake superior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superi
or
14. Summary:
Throughout the power point, the students should learn the names and
locations of the great lakes. They should be able to label them on a map and
rank them in size after researching and taking notes. After the power point, the
learners will play a game based on the information they learned from the
presentation and links provided. When tested on the information, they should
answer with 1oo% accuracy.
