Alabama
Nicknamed the 'Heart of Dixie,' Alabama is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where the Saturn V rockets that carried astronauts to the Moon were built.
Geography Standards
Alabama State Department of Education — Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies publishes the official standards; JigsawGeo's map games and printable materials line up well with the geography skills below. See the official standards for exact current wording and numbering.
- Grade 1: Locating Montgomery as Alabama's capital on a map, and identifying land, water, and other physical features using cardinal directions and a compass rose.
- Grade 2: Identifying states, continents, and oceans on maps and globes, and reading map elements such as the title, legend, compass rose, and scale.
- Grade 3: Using cardinal and intermediate directions, lines of latitude and longitude, and map symbols and legends to locate places in Alabama and around the world.
In the Classroom
- Play the United States map in JigsawGeo as a warm-up or center activity — Explorer level asks students to place each state by name, Navigator by capital.
- Print the resources below for a quick state-and-capital drill or a labeling quiz.
- JigsawGeo has no ads, accounts, or tracking, so it's safe to hand directly to students.
