Map · Grades 3-8 · Beta
State Quest
Click a state, name it, fill the map. Practice at your own pace, or take the three-strike Challenge.
- Students will
- Locate and name all 50 US states
- Who drives
- Students on devices, or teacher on the big screen
- Time
- 10-20 minutes
- Modes
- Practice · Challenge
- Works offline
- Yes, one 124 KB file
A 5-minute start
- Project Practice mode. Ask the class to name any state they're sure of and find it together.
- Turn on labels for the region you're studying, then turn them off and try again.
- Students play Challenge on their own devices. Green means first try; red means it took a while.
Talk about it
- Which states were hardest? Why might some be harder to remember?
- What helps you: shapes, neighbors, coastlines?
- How would you split the map into regions, and why?
National frameworks. Your state's standards are usually built on these.
Paste this into Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology or a class website:
Or download the single HTML file. It runs offline in any browser, from a USB stick or a shared drive.
Map: us-atlas v3, derived from US Census Bureau boundaries (public domain)
Curio Class content is CC BY 4.0 and code is MIT. Use it, share it, adapt it. Just credit Curio Class.
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