Southeast Region of the U.S.
🌾 What makes the Southeast one of the most diverse and influential regions in the United States? This video takes Grade 4 students on an educational tour of the 12 southeastern states — from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic coastline. It explores how geography, natural resources, and culture shape the identity of this region, past and present.
🏛️ Crops, Caves, Coal, and Culture
Students will learn about the region’s rich agricultural history — including tobacco, rice, and cotton — and how inventions like the cotton gin changed the southern economy. The video also covers coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains, the world-famous Mammoth Cave, the Mississippi Delta, and how each landform shaped life and livelihood in the Southeast.
🎥 This southeast region video for kids connects the natural world to the region’s diverse economies and unique ways of life. From Florida’s booming tourism to Kentucky’s horse farms and Tennessee’s music scene, students gain a full picture of how culture, history, and geography intersect in the American South.
🏆 Ideal for Grade 4 geography or regional studies, this video is a standards-based resource that brings the Southeast alive with vibrant visuals, regional highlights, and curriculum-aligned content. Whether teaching landforms, local industry, or cultural identity, this is a classroom tool you’ll want to use again and again.
Video length: 15:30 minutes.
Worksheets
Quiz
Mapping the Southeast Region of the U.S.
Southeast State Study
Land Exploration in the Southeast U.S.
Draw a Scene: Southeast Region of the U.S.
Southeast Region City Spotlight
Say It
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National Standards
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Topics Covered In This Video
Facts About the Southeast Region
Cash crops – tobacco, rice, cotton
Rise of the textile industry
Rise of the coal mining industry
Kentucky’s horse racing industry
Florida’s tourism industry
Geography and landforms of the SE
Classroom Ideas

Landforms and Bodies of Water
Print out or look at a map of the Southeast.
Idendify landforms and bodies of water in the Southeast Region.

Cloze Practice
A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.

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Visual Learning
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Art and Social Studies
Draw a scene from the video you just watched.
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