Is your Kansas map and scroll "neat and complete?"
Congratulations - now welcome to US state # 34
Click the picture, and hop in the bus in Kansas!
Here's your ticket for the Blue Bus Video recapping Kansas.
Now - head to West Virginia (WV) - US State # 35
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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Clickable links for West Virginia, travel and grow your brain - at your leisure.
- An excellent overview of WV in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Click on this interactive map to see weather cams in West Virginia.
- West Virginia's National Park Service Sites - find a place you'd like to visit someday.
- Cool video (body cam) highlights of the NPS in the New River Gorge
- WV State Museum and Culture Center - video shows how states preserve their history
- Excellent short SONGS from Applachia here in these Smithsonian recordings
- Hike the Applachian Trail as it passes through West Virginia; here's how it was made.
- Learn about artist Robin Hammer and watch this tutorial to create optical illusions.
- Ready for Mother's Day? Learn about it in a PBS video about Anna Reeves Jarvis
- Hear the Story of John Henry Read Aloud by a teaching colleague.
- Video experience of coal mining underground and consider coal's environmental impact
- This video tells why Virginia split into two parts because of disagreements about slavery.
- Learn about Chuck Yeager in this video ; See this movie clip showing the X-1 flying
- How it's made - see glass marbles being made in WV!
- Choose from different WV travel guides to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Use Google Earth to visit WV - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!