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State Stats

Students will learn pertinent information about each state in the country and present it on an illustrated state sign.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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Steps

  • Step 1

    Ask students to decide how they will divvy up the 50 states so that each person does separate research. 

  • Step 2

    Have each student research current and historical facts and statistics about the state(s) they were assigned. Then have them create a large outline of the state(s) on a piece of paper and write the information they discovered within the outline. If there's room, have them add illustrations.

  • Step 3

    When everyone is done, have the students present their states' info. Then arrange them on a bulletin board to display an informative map of the United States.

Standards

SS: People, Places, and Environments: Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to acquire, understand, and communicate information. 

SS: People, Places, and Environments: Draw upon experiences in neighborhoods, towns and cities, states and nations, as well as peoples and places distant and unfamiliar to explore geographic similarities and differences. 

Adaptations

Have students create and illusatrate a list of the symbols (flower, bird, perhaps fossil) associated with the state they researched. For example, New Jersey's state flower is the violet, the state animal is the horse, the state fruit is the blueberry, the state insect is the honeybee, etc.


The US is not the only country that has states. Have students investigate some of these others, such as Mexico (31),  Germany (16 states), Malaysia (13), Australia (six states), etc.