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Studying the 50 United States of America

Want to study the 50 states that make up the United States of America? Here are some basic ideas that will go with any state you chose to learn about.

1. Make a notebook – Get a binder and some cardstock, paper – lined and colored, dividers if you want them, colored pencils, stickers and anything else you can think of to help in the making of your notebook. Add a few page protectors to slide things into that might not work on a piece of paper. You can have a notebook for each state or one big one for all 50!
    
2. Make a poster of the state symbols.
    
3. Make a salt dough map of the state.
    
4. Do reports or “mini” posters – we make these on cardstock for our notebooks – on famous people, places or events in that state.
    
5. Have your students pick an important event and pretend they were there. They can then write a letter to a friend telling them about the event. Another fun idea is to be a reporter for the event.
    
6. Have a dinner featuring foods from the state.
    
7. Make a section in your notebook – or make a poster – of the animals that live in the state.
    
8. Same as above only plants and vegetation.
    
9. Make a poster of natural resources.
    
10. Make a weather chart for the state covering the last 5 years.
     
11. Build a model of a famous place in the state.
     
12. Visit the state or write to the capital for information on the state.
     
13. Print a blank map of the United States and color each one as you add study it.

Now pick a state and get started!

Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Connecticut Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia Washington Wisconsin Wyoming

 

~Belinda Mooney

Belinda J. Mooney is a veteran homeschool mom of 7. She loves incorporating all types of learning from cooking to crafts into her children's learning. Her kids, ages 25 down to 7, can often be seen wearing togas (or other strange clothing) to dinner, doing school outside or leaping fences to get a picture of a strange bug. Her husband has threatened to eat the science projects.