Suggested Activities

In 1923 the Alabama Legislature adopted a resolution calling for the observance of December 14^th as “Alabama Day” (Acts of Alabama 1923, #255). We invite you to join with the Alabama Department of Archives and History in celebrating Alabama’s birthday and encourage you to consider some appropriate way to commemorate December 14, 1819 --- the day Alabama became the 22^nd state in the Union.

• To extend knowledge of the history of Alabama
  
• To develop a sense of place through study of early inhabitants
  
• To extend knowledge of governmental process
  
• To develop basic map reading skills
  
• To explore role-play to retain important historical events
  

• Have a party celebrating Alabama’s birthday
  
• Create an Alabama birthday card
  
• Learn when the Alabama Territory was created
  
• Map out the Federal Road
  
• Make a poster showing Alabama and surrounding states
  
• Learn about all 5 Alabama capitals
  
• Sing the state song written by Julia Tutwiler
  
• Play Alabama trivia game
  
• Discover the historic site nearest your school
  
• Recite the Salute to the Alabama Flag
  
• Recognize state emblems
  
• List the names and works by Alabama authors
  
• Read a biography of a famous Alabamian
  
• Locate an historical monument in your area
  
• Visit a cemetery to find the earliest dated grave
  
• Create an Alabama history time-line
• Find the route the first settlers would have taken to settle in your community
  
• Perform a skit illustrating Alabama’s constitutional convention held in 1819