Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Geography

Grade 3

7.1.3.B Identify and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.

Activities

• Suggest our JigsawGeo iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch map game to your parents. They can find it on the AppStore by searching for "JigsawGeo".
• Print out our free  USA map.  It has two pages (one with the state names, the other without). You may photocopy it freely to use in your class.
  
• Use it for a quiz (have your students find Pennsylvania and a few other states)
• Use it as a coloring page -- have your students color in  Pennsylvania and each state where they have a relative.

Activities

• Suggest our JigsawGeo iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch map game to your parents. The Easy level challenges them to place all 50 states in their correct positions in the lowest time. The Difficult level gives the name of the capital instead of the name of the state! Parents can find it on the AppStore by searching for "JigsawGeo".
• Use our USA Fifty States Flash Cards to learn the name of each state along with its capital.
• Print out our free  USA map.  It has two pages (one with the state names, the other without).  You may photocopy it freely to use in your class. 
  
• Hand out the labeled page as a study aid.
• Use it for a quiz (have your students label each state properly).
• Color in each state using color pencils to illustrate population or other characteristics (e.g., blue for low population through red for high population).  Wikipedia has a chart with the current population by state.