It offers the Olympic Mountains, the San Juan Islands and Mount Rainier, one of the nation’s highest peaks in the Lower 48., The Evergreen State is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream with its geological diversity, including mountains, deserts, rainforests and a Pacific coastline. president, gained its statehood in 1889., Washington, the only state named after a U.S. The state is known for its skiing, with the mountains near Salt Lake City collecting abundant snowfall, as well as for the Sundance Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere independent film festivals, staged each January in Park City. The “Four Corners” area marks the only such arrangement in the U.S., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus and deserts – containing the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, at the state capital of Salt Lake City – are bordered by Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona at right angles. The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. As gold and silver were discovered in the mountains, Congress named the territory Utah after local Native Americans. On May 10, 1869, the first transcontinental railroad was established at Promontory Summit in the Utah territory, where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads met. By 1850, with a population of more than 11,000, church leaders chose members to head their settlements, and through 1900, the Mormons founded 500 communities in Utah and neighboring states., They moved to Mexico until the war’s end, returning in 1848 to the place they hoped to make the state of Deseret, a name drawing on the symbol of community found in a honey beehive in the Book of Mormon. With the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, several hundred members formed what became known as the Mormon Battalion, which marched from Kansas to San Diego from 1846 to 1847, forging a wagon route across the deep Southwest., This will take you OUT of my website, so you'll need to use your BACK button to get back to my website.Utah was dubbed 'Deseret' by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who settled this remote western realm in the mid-1800s, fleeing religious discrimination in the East., 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.

Check off list of 50 states