How Do You Memorize The Thirteen Original Colonies?
Any student faced with memorizing state capitols and the thirteen original colonies dreads spending weeks repeating a list over and over, only to have test day roll around and have their brain freeze up. Make easy work of memorizing the thirteen colonies and use the same techniques on other social studies assignments or just about anything that requires memorization. Decide how your brain learns best. Some people respond well to organization and order while other people are visual learners. Divide the thirteen colonies into groups that make most sense to you. Organized people may prefer to view the colonies by how they appear on a map, in different regions. Visual people may see the shape or size of the state, or may even think of something unique about each state to correlate it to another. Others may use the spelling of the states, grouping them alphabetically. Visualize the colonies in their new smaller groups and focus only on the small group of three or four rather than the entire
