{"id":397,"date":"2014-07-14T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-07-14T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:00:40","slug":"the-50-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2014\/07\/14\/the-50-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No offense, but this chapter of the Heritage Studies book is a bit dry, especially since I don&#8217;t shell out the extra dollars for the BJU workbook.\u00a0 However, I have an activity book we will use to supplement this chapter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887435378\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0887435378&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ranthoofayoum-20&amp;linkId=OBRSM3IE2MDG4XRW\">Travel the Great States<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=ranthoofayoum-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0887435378\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> is a great little workbook that should make this chapter a bit more fun.\u00a0 Plus, if you click that link &amp; buy the book, I get Amazon Affiliate credit, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, this chapter splits America into 6 different regions &amp; looks at the states in each one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/USA-Regions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-398 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/USA-Regions-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"USA-Regions\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/368;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 6 Regions of the United States&#8230; According to BJU Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northeast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maine<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>Vermont<\/li>\n<li>New York<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Conneticut<\/li>\n<li>Rhode Island<\/li>\n<li>Pensylvania<\/li>\n<li>New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>Deleware<\/li>\n<li>Maryland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Southeast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Washington D.C. (which technically isn&#8217;t a state, but neither Virginia nor Maryland wants to claim this piece of land as part of their state)<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>N. Carolina<\/li>\n<li>S. Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Florida<\/li>\n<li>Alabama<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mid-west<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Illinios<\/li>\n<li>Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Iowa<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>N. Dakota<\/li>\n<li>S. Dakota<\/li>\n<li>Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>Kansas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SouthWest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oklahoma<\/li>\n<li>Texas<\/li>\n<li>New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Arizona<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rocky Mountain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Montana<\/li>\n<li>Wyoming<\/li>\n<li>Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Utah<\/li>\n<li>Idaho<\/li>\n<li>Nevada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pacific<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington (the state)<\/li>\n<li>Oregon<\/li>\n<li>California<\/li>\n<li>Alaska<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, no discussion of the 50 states would be complete without this little gem from the Animaniacs:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<p>The map I used to make mine is found <a href=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\/detail\/17221\/usa-politique-by-laurent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPlenty of games and such can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learninggamesforkids.com\/us_state_games\/50_states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning Games For Kids<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconsulate.org.hk\/pas\/kids\/50states.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Consulate of Hong Kong<\/a> has some interesting stuff about the 50 States.<br \/>\nIf you aren&#8217;t afraid of being tracked when you visit .gov sites, then <a href=\"http:\/\/kids.usa.gov\/learn-about-the-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA.gov has a listing of each state&#8217;s official &#8220;Kids!&#8221; pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this is another cute video from Marbles, the Brain Store:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_E2CNZIlVIg]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No offense, but this chapter of the Heritage Studies book is a bit dry, especially since I don&#8217;t shell out the extra dollars for the BJU workbook.\u00a0 However, I have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/USA-Regions-sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}