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DIRECTIONS: Look up each answer and write where you found it.
Try an atlas, an encyclopedia, or your state's official website.
| Question | Answer | Where I found it |
|---|
| My state | | |
| Its capital city | | |
| Which region it is in | | |
| States that border it | | |
| When it became a state | | |
| Roughly how many people live there | | |
| Its biggest city | | |
| A major river, lake or mountain range | | |
| Question | What I found out |
|---|
| What is the land like? (mountains, plains, coast, desert…) | |
| What is the weather like across a year? | |
| What is grown or made here? | |
| What work do most people do? | |
| Who lived here before it was a state? | |
| One important event in its history | |
| One thing it is famous for | |
Draw your state. Star the capital, dot your town, add one river, lake or mountain range.
- Using what you found out, explain one connection between your state's geography and the work people do there.
- Two of your sources might disagree — about the population, say. What would you do about that?
- Write three sentences that would tell somebody who has never been here what your state is like. Not facts — a description.
- What is one thing you wanted to find out and could not? Where might you look next?