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United States geography ideas

February 27, 2014 By Ticia 8 Comments

A popular thing to do with homeschoolers and afterschoolers is studying United States geography with their kids.  They go through and learn all about the United States in different ways.

50 state study ideas

Here’s the primary United States geography ideas I’ve seen:

 

Postcard study-They ask for postcards and when they get a postcard for a new state they study that state.

Recipe study-Eat snacks/meals/desserts from the different states

Alphabetical Order

Chonrological Order- for when they entered the union

I’ve done both all 3 to some extent or another, and we really enjoyed it, and almost always we got bogged down about halfway through.

For the sake of this post I’m going to go through and divide up these United States geography ideas by area (I’ll admit it’s partially because that’s how my pictures are done)

I plan to name one post per state, there’s a lot of ideas out there.

Northeast United States geography ideas

Northeast United States geography ideas

Maine

Vermont

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

New York

Rhode Island

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Maryland

Delaware

Southeast united states geography ideas

Southeast United States Geography ideas

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Florida

Alabama

Missippi

Central United States Geography ideas

Central United States Geography Ideas

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Michigan

Iowa

Illinois

Indiana

Ohio

Missouri

Kentucky

Tennessee

Arkansas

Southwest United States Geography Ideas

Southwest United States Geography Ideas

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Texas

Oklahoma

Kansas

Colorado

Louisiana

Alaska

Hawaii (only because this is where they are in the picture of the map)

 

Northwest United States geography ideas

Northwest United States Geography Ideas

Washington

Oregon

Idaho

Montana

Wyoming

North Dakota

South Dakota

Nebraska

Nevada

Utah

 

Well, that’s all 50 states for the United States Geography Ideas.  That took forever to get together, and that’s with two people essentially saying, “Here’s my geography folder, have at it.”  So many posts….

Are you looking for more geography resources, then try The Ultimate Homeschool Geography Guide.



Filed Under: geography Tagged With: 50 states study, United States history

Comments

  1. Kristalyn @ Learning is Messy says

    February 27, 2014 at 9:18 am

    Oh this is FANTASTIC! we have been learning about the states for several years. We are doing them in alphabetical order. I have linked up our most current post (NC) and then Alabama and Mississippi, too b/c I didn’t see that you had any links for those two states. sorry my pic I chose for AL didn’t work, but the learning is still great. We hope you enjoy taking a look at our states studies. At the top of our blog is a header called “states study” where you can find all of them.

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    • Ticia says

      February 28, 2014 at 8:16 am

      I think your blog was the one that gave me the idea of getting them done in ABC order. I’ll add in your Alabama and Mississippi posts, thanks for pointing out they were missing. I’m surprised I only missed those two.

  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    February 27, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    I like studying the states regionally, or by following a particular path (Oregon Trail, for instance).

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  3. Natalie says

    February 27, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    That’s an amazing resource! Next time we study the states, maybe we will follow the path of quests in Percy Jackson’s series. They’ve been practically everywhere, I think!

    Reply
  4. Debbie says

    February 28, 2014 at 4:49 am

    Loads of fun ideas! This must have taken you forever to put together, but thanks for doing it, and thanks for including my blog. 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 28, 2014 at 8:15 am

      Your blog was included quite a lot….. This post took forever to get done.

  5. Kristalyn @ Learning is Messy says

    March 9, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    Thanks for including us in your links for the states study. What a great resource you have provided.

    Reply

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