Is your Nevada map and scroll "neat and complete?" Congratulations!
That's your ticket to US state # 36
Click the picture - welcome to Nevada !
Here's the Blue School Bus Video recapping Nevada.
Now - head to Nebraska - US State # 37
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 Nebraska at your leisure. Traveling makes your brain grow.
- An excellent overview of NB in this Homeschool Pop Video
- From the "World from Above" series - 3 minutes of aerial HD in Nebraska
- Nebraska's National Park Service Sites - find a place you'd like to visit someday.
- See Scott's Bluff, a key landmark for Natives and Settlers on the OR, CA and Mormon Trail
- Trains enabled western migration - see this three minute introduction by Ken Burns.
- See photos of settlers and emigrants living in sod homes in NB coming for "free land."
- Archaeologist dig for fossils and understand a mass grave of Bison
- Listen to the story of Native American Standing Bear.
- Take a virtual 360 tour of the Indian Cave State Park
- The Ponca tribe resided in the area where Lewis and Clark who traveled to explore...
- Learn about the Homesteading Act of 1862 created by Abraham Lincoln.
- Famous women of NE: Novelist Willa Cather and writer Bess Streeter
- A Native American woman who learned western medicine and brought it to her Omaha tribe
- Learn about the plague of locusts that affect the plains and parts of Nebraska in 1874
- Singer Paul Williams is from Omaha: Just an Old Fashioned Love Song
- See this 1min PBS biography about J. Sterling Morton; read a book about Arbor Day.
- Do you like to rollerblade or skate? Swing on by the Rollerskating History Museum
- The famous movie star and dancer Fred Astaire click to see his fancy moves.
- See the special Boystown bus helped boys play sports regardless of their skin color.
- Choose from different NE travel guides to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Use Google Earth to visit NE - 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 NE.