Hello everyone again, I’m very interested in learning the American States but I want to remember them in map order if I was looking at a picture without the state initials printed on it I would be able to point at say that’s Washington DC.
I started a while back with a method of splitting it up into 4 squares so the first one was Washing DC, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska and then making a story and placing it on a location such as kitchen or gym etc. My story was like Washing dishes with oregano, some splashes up into Ida or eyes of dad etc.
This webpage above shows you how I set the symbols up for this task.
Using the map from Josh’s comment (above). Adapt the symbols to the map. Try to include color coding. I haven’t done the states by map myself. Only alphabetical order. But I can recall states from “a-z” or “z-a”
or recall every second state from beginning to end. Then every second state from the end to beginning using the symbols. It works well.
Under Memory Systems & Techniques in this forum go to: Mnemonics,Mnemonic Peg System for a lesson using the symbols.
I like the Mrs. Jones link
I am going to use it for my 9 year old twins
They go over states and capitals for fifth grade
I also want to have a visual image for each state and capital,
so thanks a ton!
Ray
Wow. That is really helpful. I might learn how to use Inkscape because of this. Any tips on how I might learn to use it? I am not very patient with software packages.
