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TITLE:  STATES AND CAPITALS OF THE UNITED STATES

AUTHOR:  John Moreland,Idaho State Youth Services Center,
         St. Anthony, Idaho

OBJECTIVE(s):
1.  Students will learn all of the states of the United
    States.
2.  Students will learn the capitals of each state.
3.  Students will learn the location of each state on a
    blank map.
4.  Students will learn general information about each
    state which will include size, population, and when
    it became a state.

RESOURCES:
Students to make bingo cards with states and bingo cards
with capitals.  Blank maps of each state.  Blank maps of
continental United States with Hawaii and Alaska.
Encyclopedias, atlas, and large wall maps of the United
States.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1.   Each student will do research and report to classmates
     on two or three states.  This will depend on the amount
     of students in your class.  Research will include
     general information, drawing an outline of the state
     with name and location of the capital.

2.   Upon completion of number one, students will learn all
     the names of the states and capitals.  This will be
     done by playing a form of bingo.  Students will make
     bingo cards listing twenty-four states and a free space
     and twenty four capitals with free space.  Ten cards
     with states and ten cards of capitals will be made by
     each student.  ONLY one card will be used during each
     game.  Instructor will call out states or capitals and
     the first with five in a row has bingo.  Instructor
     calls opposite of cards students are using for game.

     Example:  If students have cards with states,
     instructor will call out capitals.  Students will
     place marker over proper state.  When a student
     calls out"Bingo", he must call back capitals and say
     the name of the state the capital is in.

3.   Students will fill in state and capitals on blank maps.
     They will use maps of states that reports on #1 were
     given.  Students will fill in states of the seven
     different regions of the United States.  These regions
     include New England States, Middle Atlantic States,
     Southern States, Midwestern States, Rocky Mountain
     States, Southwestern States, and the Pacific Coast
     States.  Upon completion of these activities students
     will fill in the states and capitals on a blank map of
     the United States.

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