Standards Sundays: Grade 5 Wakko's United States

The final CA history/social sciences fifth grade standard:

5.9 Students know the location of the current 50 states and the names of their
capitals.

My elementary school had a huge map of the US painted on the playground black top. My teacher tested each one of us by making us jump from state to state, naming them and their capitols. It was exceedingly fun.

Here's another creative, quick way to help students memorize 101, sometimes very hard to pronounce (and spell) location names: