Is your Texas map and scroll "neat and complete?"
Congratulations - welcome to the USA's 28th state!
Click the picture, and hop in the bus in Texas!
Here's your ticket for the Blue School Bus Video recapping Texas!
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Now - head northeast to Iowa - state # 29
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 Once you're finished your scroll (and get the thumbs up from a caregiver) go exploring below!
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Click through Iowa if you have time - to expand your mind!
- An excellent overview of IA in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Learn the basics about IA in this Socractica Video
- Iowa's National Park Service Sites
- Check out the LIVE WEBCAM of the Eagles in Decorah, IA
- Explore Iowa History and Culture with these digital archives
- Meet Amelia Bloomer, inventor of bloomers and the first American newspaper for women
- Fascinating historical overview of the Quaker Oats brand - based in Cedar Rapids.
- Watch how a historian uses Google Satellite to "dig up" Native American Earth Mounds
- How is BACON made - see it all in this video...
- Choose different IA travel guides mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Watch this one minute video about Grant Wood painter of "American Gothic" .
- Use Google Earth to visit IA - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Listen and see a variety of BIG BAND music by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
- Choose a city and check out a discuss what you notice on a city via webcams in IA.