Is your Minnesota map and scroll "neat and complete?"
Congratulations - now welcome to US state # 32
Click the picture, and hop in the bus in Minnesota!
Here's your ticket for the Blue School Bus Video recapping Minnesota.
Now - head to Oregon - US State # 33
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!
Copyright courtesy/waived thanks to Scholastic during the 2020 pandemic.
Click through Oregon at your leisure. Traveling makes your brain grow.
- An excellent overview of OR in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Nat'l Geo's 50 states in 50 birds - check out Oregon in fun facts, raps and rhymes!
- Oregon's National Park Service Sites - find a place you think I should camp and email me...
- Listen to this 3min NPS ranger talk about Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the USA
- Check out this one minute of the famous color field painter Mark Rothko
- A slightly exaggerated cartoon video about the beauty of Oregon.
- You can still see the ruts of the Oregon Trail from settlers heading west 200 years ago.
- Eight-time world-champion jingle dancer video - see Red Elk of the Umatilla tribe.
- Cool, hip video biography about Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition on PBS.
- A 2min overview of Lewis and Clark's journey to the Pacific Ocean...
- Get some popcorn for this National Geographic Movie on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Could you stand the pinch of an Oregon Dungeness Crab like Coyote Peterson ?
- Listen to an interview with Beverly Cleary via this Reading Rockets Video
- Learn about Marine Studies and Science via this Oregon State University video.
- Choose from different OR travel guides to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Watch highlights of the sage grouse cam in Bend, OR
- Mr. Chris went to Oregon State University - there are many webcams to view there.
- Use Google Earth to visit OR - 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 OR.