STATES.? I feel that this is a very important topic and that all children need to learn not

only that there are fifty states, but the capitols, abbreviations, and other important

information. While gathering information about the fifty states, I came to a few web sites

and even a book. I did not look for any journal articles, because I did not feel that any of

those would help children understand about the basics knowledge of the fifty states. If I

had done this project for a higher-grade level, I would have gone deeper in the research

This lesson is geared toward the third through fifth grade levels. The activities on

the learning center can easily be modified if they become to easy, or you would like to

work on a different area of the United States. The first two activities are somewhat

similar, but still have two completely different objectives.

questions from two different web sites. The first one of the websites was located at

is for the children to be able to identify the hidden capitol of the ten states that have

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objective of this activity is for students to be able to look at a map and be able to

map and ten corresponding questions. The next website was quite a bit different from the

go to the next activity, number two.

great place for the children to go after they had learned about all of the states, they could

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