Feb

20

Learning the U.S. state capitals

Filed Under Geography 

I’ve come across a neat little game to help you learn the capitals of the U.S. states. You pick a state and it gives you three cities to pick from. If you get it right, it lets you know, but if you get it wrong you get to try again. When you’ve gone through all fifty states, it lets you know how many guesses you had to make and urges you to practice until you can get all fifty state capitals on the first try.

As a Canadian social studies teacher, I’d have to say it wasn’t too hard to get the capitals all right (though I’d have to confess to eight wrong guesses) since the three cities you get to guess from are always (I think) from different states. That makes it a whole lot easier than giving you cities from the same state to guess from. While this means this game may not be for advanced geography students, it is a nice game for kids new to the study of U.S. geography.

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