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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 11 of 15

Alabama on the Map

Find our state, capital and county

What your child practices

Locating Alabama, its capital Montgomery, counties and county seats, neighboring states and the Gulf of Mexico on political and physical maps.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.7; 1.8 · locating our community, county, state and capital, and political and physical maps

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A physical map shows land and water.
  2. A political map shows cities, borders and capitals.
  3. Borders are lines between states.

Example: The lines between states on a map are called… They show where one state ends. They are borders. Answer: borders

Alabama on the Map in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 11 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after School & Travel Long Ago and before Leaders & Citizens.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    On a map, a capital city is often shown with a…

    • heart
    • cloud
    • smiley face
    • star

  2. Question 2

    A physical map shows…

    • only roads
    • only houses
    • land and water like rivers and mountains
    • only city names

  3. Question 3

    How many counties does Alabama have?

    • 10
    • 500
    • 5
    • 67

  4. Question 4

    Your town is in a county, and your county is in…

    • a cloud
    • a house
    • a state
    • a classroom

  5. Question 5

    Alabama is split into smaller parts called…

    • countries
    • oceans
    • planets
    • counties

  6. Question 6

    Alabama's coast is in which part of the state?

    • the far east
    • the middle
    • the south
    • the north

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