One region at a time
Instead of all 50 at once, color one region a week on a blank US map. Kids label the states, then find each one on the big class map. By the end of the unit, every region is filled in and kids can see the whole country come together.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
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