12 October 2010

By: Mary B. Stanley

The 50 States

When learning about the states, it is important to know where all fifty

states are located at.

Why We Should Learn This?

Along the Atlantic Ocean in the upper right corner on a map of the United States are nine states known as the “northeastern states.”

The Northeastern States

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Vermont

1) Connecticut

2) Maine

3) Massachusetts

4) New Hampshire

The Northeastern States

When looking at the map of the United States, in the lower right are the “southern states.”

The Southern States

Mississippi

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virgin

West Virginia

Alabama

Arkansas

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

The Southern States

In the middle

of the United

States towards

the top, are the

mid-west

states.

The Mid-Western States

Missouri

North Dakota

Nebraska

Ohio

South Dakota

Wisconsin

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Michigan

Minnesota

The Mid-Western States

The western

side of the map

consist of 13

states known

as the

“western

states.”

The Western States

Nevada

New Mexico

Oregon

Utah

Washington

Wyoming

Alaska

Arizona

California

Colorado

Idaho

Hawaii

Montana

The Western States

Even though Alaska and Hawaii are disconnected from the rest of the

United States they are considered a part of the “western states.”

Alaska and Hawaii

State capital: Lansing

Largest city: Detroit

Known as the “Great Lake

State.”

*Michigan is the only state that touches four out of the five Great Lakes. It is also the only state to have two peninsulas, the upper and lower.

Our State: Michigan

Today, we learned where all fifty states are located. The four

different regions are known as, northeastern, southern, mid-

western, and the western states.

We also learned more about the state we live in, Michigan.

What We Learned

Information on the four regions, slides 3-10: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf

Slide 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States

Slide 13: http://michigan.gov/kids/0,1607,7-247-49069-67959--,00.html

Resources for text

Slide 1: http://www.karenika.com/50states/map_us.gif

Slide 3: http://www.opm.gov/insure/archive/images/nemap.gif

Slide 5: http://www.northcarolina.edu/programs/acm/SREBStates.gif

Slide 7: http://future.state.gov/images/images_future/3787/midwest_map_170.jpg

Slide 9: http://www.uscg.mil/d13/img/ilog/map_and_tri_554x490.jpg

Slide 11: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/alaska-hawaii.gif

Slide 12: http://archive.fairvote.org/media/rotatingprimary_map.jpg

Slide 13: http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/michigan.gif

Picture Resources

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