Centers 1 & 2

I Have, Who Has?

Players: 3 or more
Directions:
o Mix up/ shuffle all the cards
o Distribute all the cards to each player. That
means that there should be no cards left in
the center.
o Pick one player to start the game. Whoever
starts the game, reads the question on their
card
For example: "Who has the capital of
Texas".
o The player who has the capital of Texas
replies "I have Austin" and continues the
game by reading the question on their card.
o The player that has the capital card gives it
to the player that asked for it.
o The game goes on until all cards are played.
o The player with the most cards wins!

Center 3
Pick-Up States (pick-up sticks)

Players: 2 or more
Directions:
o Mix up/ shuffle all the sticks. The sticks with a
dot mean that it is the state. If you flip it
over, it is its capital.
o Dump out the sticks and take turns naming
the state or capital.
o You can only pull from the top.
o If I pull a capital, I must name the state it is
in.
o If I pull a state, I must name its capital.
o Example: If I pick up Nevada, then I say, The
 capital of Nevada is Carson City!
o Whoever says the correct State with the
correct capital first, keeps the stick.
o The player who has the most sticks wins the
game!
Center 4
Word Search

Every person in the group does their own word

search.
Directions:
o Find the capitals of each state.
o You do NOT have to find the state names,
only the capitals!

Center 5
Map Coloring

Every person in the group does your own.

Directions:
o Color each state by the color it says to color.
o Draw a line to match the state to the capital.

Center 6
Sequence: States and Capitals

Players: 2-4
Directions:
o Each card has the name of a capital with its
location shown on the state.
o Players match the state's shape and color on
the card to the same state shape and color on
the board, then place a chip on that space.
o Five chips in a row form a Sequence, which is
the object to winning the game.
 Center 7
Matching Game
Players: 1-4
Directions:
o Jumble up the cards.
o Match each State name to its capital.
o To make it more of a challenge, flip all the
cards over and use your memory to match
the cards.
o The player with the most matches wins!

Center 8
Anamaniacs Video and Fill-In the Blanks

Share an Ipad with a partner or grab your own.

Go on Youtube and type in Wakkos 50 State
Capitals
Watch it Feel free to use headphones.
Then, watch it again while filling in the missing words
on your worksheet. You can pause the video to catch
up on writing.
Watch as many times as you need. Check your work.
Name: ______________________________________________________________

Anamaniacs: States and Capitals

Directions: Watch the video and fill in the blanks.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; _______________________, Indiana

And Columbus is the capital of ____________________

There's Montgomery, Alabama,

south of _____________________, Montana

Then there's ______________________, Colorado,

under ____________________, Idaho.

Texas has ____________________, then we go north

To Massachusetts' _______________________,

and Albany, New York

_______________________________, Florida,

and Washington, D.C.

Santa Fe, New Mexico,

and __________________________, Tennessee.

 Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know

Trenton's in New Jersey,

north of ________________________, Missouri

You've got ________________________ in Virginia;

South Dakota has ______________________

Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and

Augusta's up in Maine

And here is ___________________, Rhode Island,

next to ____________________, Delaware.

______________________, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt

To _____________________, which is up in Vermont

Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall

And Kansas has _____________________; Minnesota has ______________________.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in ___________________________

And it's _______________________ out in North Carolina and then

There's _______________________ Wisconsin,

and Olympia in Washington

________________________, Arizona, and ________________________ , Michigan.

Here's _________________________; Hawaii's a joy

Jackson, Mississippi, and ____________________, Illinois

 South Carolina with Columbia down the way

And __________________________ in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in

____________________________ out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam

Atlanta's down in Georgia,

and there's _____________________ North Dakota

And you can live in ____________________ in your old Kentucky home.

__________________________ in Oregon;

from there we join ________________________ in Arkansas;

Iowa's got ________________________

Sacramento, California;

Oklahoma and its city ________________________, West Virginia,

and Nevada, _____________________________.

That's all the ___________________ there are!

Name: __________________________________________

States & Capitals Centers Checklist

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Center 7
Matching Game
Players: 1-4
Directions:
o Jumble up the cards.
o Match each State name to its capital.
o To make it more of a challenge, flip all the
cards over and use your memory to match
the cards.
o The player with the most matches wins!