RELATED: The 12 very best places to travel in 2020 Feel the need for speed: Alabama Note: All travel is subject to frequently changing governmental restrictions-please check federal, state and local advisories before scheduling trips. Think we missed a good one? Share in the comments. This will take you OUT of my website, so you'll need to use your BACK button to get back to my website.Visiting every state in the US is a bucket list item in and of itself (and the perfect excuse to hit the open road), but if you actually set out to do it, where exactly should you go? There is so much to see and do everywhere, so we racked our brains and came up with the one most incredible thing you must do in all 50 states-when the time is right. There's also a link above, in the colorful map of the U.S., to a blank map of the U.S. I'm not having Carlianne memorize that, but I do want her to be aware of what these states are called, area-wise. ![]() It's no biggie just for those interested in that. (where all the states are individual plastic forms that stick to the blank map) Just a little bonus that I got from aĬolorforms-type map of the U.S. You may have also noticed there's a link on this page to another page at my site that has the six regions of the U.S. Them!!! Doing it in one big lump is cramming, which we all know the effectiveness of! So they won't be 48, like me, and still know only maybe half of ~ several days or weeks ~ is going to make it sink in and stick better. ![]() Time (days)? You're welcome to do whatever you want, but I think that stretching it out over a longer period of time Why not have them study for longer periods (minutes) and for a shorter period of Hopefully it won't take more than the three weeks I have columns for! -D Then have them study them for just few minutes each day, and on Friday do the "1ST CHECK." (I would suggest you use two or three different maps so they don't just get used to only one.) They probably won't get them all the first time, so keep studying them a little each day until they do get them all, testing every Friday. My suggestion is to have your child do the pre-test at the beginning of the week. It was the presidential elections, by the way, that spurred this interest!Īfter studying the states for several days, for just a few minutes a day, she got 44 out of the 50! I wish I'd had Carlianne do thatįirst so that she could see her tremendous progress, because she knew very few other than our Pacific coast states, New York where she's visited, andĪ few states where I've spoken. The first column entitled "PRE-TEST" is to be done BEFORE you start studying the states. So I made up this chart for Carlianne to use in learning the 50 Not as a pride thing just cuz it's very handy, not to mentionĮmbarrassment-preventing when non-homeschoolers are around and you're looking for Montana down where Georgia is! The page so they wouldn't have to be on your child's work page!Ĭarlianne and I decided it would be nice for both of us to know the locations of the 50 states. ![]() ![]() In case you're wondering, I put these directions at the bottom of Takes a bit to load, but it's worth the wait!Ī car game will appear first, but that's just a with all the state names filled in.Īctually like to find a map with the names of the states and theĪ little clearer, so if you find one, please letĬlick here to go to an online U.S.
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