Is your Oregon map and scroll "neat and complete?"
Congratulations - now welcome to US state # 33
Click the picture, and hop in the bus in Oregon!
Here's your ticket for the Blue School Bus Video recapping Oregon.
Now - head to Kansas - US State # 34
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.
Clickable links for Kansas at your leisure. Traveling makes your brain grow.
- An excellent overview of KS in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Socractica's video summary of KS - check here..
- Kansas's National Park Service Sites - find a place you'd like to visit someday.
- Learn the pivotal case of Brown vs. Board of Education from 1954 in Topeka, KS
- Homeschool pop has this Amelia Earhart biography - she's from Atchison, KS
- GREAT mix of aviation related games/activities - thanks to the Kansas Aviation Museum!
- A farmer's wife gives a special video tour of the charming Garden of Eden in Lucas, KS
- William White was a critical newspaper editor in KS who received the Pulitzer Prize
- A famous writer of movies and plays - William Inge also won a Pulitzer Prize.
- Gwendolyn Brooks also won a Pulitzer for her poem heard in this video We Real Cool
- Check out this video about processing sunflower seeds from massive fields
- Take a virtual tour of Fort Larned an important base defending settlers/pioneers.
- Check out interactives maps of both the Pony Express Trail or the Santa Fe Trail
- Choose from different KS travel guides to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Use Google Earth to visit KS - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Choose a city and check out a discuss what you notice - find giraffes - webcams in KS.