Is your Florida map and scroll "neat and complete?"
Congratulations welcome to the USA's 27th state!
Click the picture, and hop in the bus!
Here's your ticket for the Blue School Bus Video recapping Florida
Now - head northwest to Texas - state # 28
Get your map to color and scroll for learning while you complete these steps:
1 Read and underline wonder words on both sides
2 Put the map below on the biggest screen in your house, and turn on some classical music...
3 Trace the rivers in blue - is the capital on a river? What else do you notice ?
4 Then, carefully color in 3-4 special items of interest...
5 Complete your Explorer's Scroll, avoid those "floaty and sinky" letters please...
6 After your helper gives your scroll and map the thumbs up explore the links and videos below.
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Clickable TX links and activities to enrich your mind as time permits.
- An excellent overview of TX in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Texas's National Park Service Sites
- Learn about the Sixteen National Parks of TX (100th anniversary video)
- How is it made ? See a guitar/bango being built in this video
- For an excellent virtual tour of the Johnson Space Center in Houston TX click here
- Search for animals, parks or adventures on PBS Texas Parks and Wildlife Channel
- Take a virtual tour of the Alibates Flint Quarries in northern Texas.
- Hear book/story of William Hoy read by Eric Nadel of the Texas Rangers
- Visit the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi TX.
- Learn the basics about the formation of fossil fuels (oil, gas and natural gas)
- Check out the live webcams of the the west Texas hummingbird feeders.
- Choose different TX travel guides mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Learn about about one America's most amazing female athlete in this video...
- See two astronauts talk about their careers and their moonwalks in this video.
- Use Google Earth to visit TX - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Choose a city and check out a discuss what you notice on a city via webcams in TX.