Objective: Students will become familiar with different names of towns in Arkansas. Students will gain practice in the use of a map grid and gain practice in the use of a map index.

Set: Ask "Can you think of the name of an Arkansas town that might describe a man's head that has no hair?

Materials: Arkansas State Highway Map and "How Well Do You Know Arklansas?" Questionaire

Key Terms: Index, grid

Key Facts: There are many Arkansas towns, cities, and communities that have interesting and unusual names. It can be fun to locate them on the map. We will use our Arkansas highway map to locate some of these interesting place names.

Students will need to work where they can fully unfold their map. Assist them in finding the index on the map and explain that place names are listed alphabetically in the map index. Have students find our town in the map index. Note the grid letter and the number next to the name of _________ in the index. Next, notice the grid letters and numbers located along the picture map of Arkansas on the highway map. Find the grid reading for our town. Use the grid reading to find our town on the map.

Activities: Students will use the index on their map to locate the first mystery place. What a young boy shoots in his gun? Beebe. Remember that place names are listed alphabetically. What is the grid reading for Beebe? D-6 is correct.

Students will use their map indexes to help them solve the other mystery places on the map.

2. What you do when you come to an intersection? Crossit. 3. Not cold but bouncy? Hot Springs. 4. What you must have to mail something? Stamps. 5. A small stone? Little Rock 6. A famous Indian Maiden? Pocahontas 7. Ship of the Pilgrims? Mayflower. 8. Subtract "t's" and get Sugar? Stuttgart 9. With "er" its a fast food? Hamburg 10. A large white - flowering tree? Magnolia. 11. A U.S. Law Officer? Marshall 12. A hairless door-opener? Balk Knob 13. A "non-false"male? Trumann 14. A tall, tall hill and where you live? Mt. Home 15. Evergreen tree on a steep hillside? Pine Bluff 16. Never been used, place where ships dock? New Port 17. Parts of three states? Texarkana 18. Lots of trees in a place bigger than a town? Forest City 19. A single, hardwood tree? Lonoak 20. An unopened flower? Rosebud 21. To iron, a bed? Prescott 22. Boy's name and 2,000 pounds? Benton 23. A fiber, manufacturing place? Cotton Plant 24. Nut tree on a slight rise? Walnut Ridge 25. Kiss again? Smackover.

Closure: Challenge students to come up with some of their own riddles for the names of Arkansas towns.

Assessment: Check "How Well Do You Know Arkansas? Questionnaire" Students should record name of town or city as well as grid number where it is found on the map.

Resources: Arkansas Highway Maps and Questionnaire