Is your Nebraska map and scroll "neat and complete?" Congratulations!
That's your ticket to US state # 37
Click the picture - welcome to Nebraska !
Here's the Blue School Bus Video to revisit Nebraska.
Now - onto Colorado - US State # 38
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.
A menu of Colorado choices at your leisure. Traveling makes your brain grow.
- Socractica's video summary of CO - check here..
- An excellent overview of CO in this Homeschool Pop Video
- Colorado's National Park Service Sites - find a place you'd like to visit someday.
- A short migration story about Pike's Peak Gold Rush HISTORY channel on the Gold Rush
- Check out this 3D virtual tour of cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park
- How was the Colorado River formed ? Watch this 3min Nova video that explains tectonics.
- If you were an Apache would you go to work as a paid spy or scout in the American Army?
- Learn about the Ute tribe and get a glimpse of their museum
- Native American Apache on skateboards, or in ritual dances
- Ghost towns are a real thing - see the 2nd half of this video to visit Bonanza, CO.
- HD tour of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon - check out this video...
- See the town of Boggsville, CO as a window into migration, on the Santa Fe Trail
- Check out interactives maps of both the Pony Express Trail or the Santa Fe Trail
- For a Google Tour of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park: click here
- Learn about the Tenth Mountain Division of Skiing Soldiers
- Watch this quick news story of Dr. Florence Sabin - a pioneering woman in medicine/STEM.
- Read 18 interesting facts about Colorado here
- Visit on the most famous military bases in the world NORAD command central.
- Hear the iconic anthem song by John Denver of Colorado: Rocky Mountain High
- The band "Earth, Wind and Fire" is from CO too: Come Dance in the Boogie Wonderland
- Order CO travel guides to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- Use Google Earth to visit CO- zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Fascinating and stunning video - come see CO's history of geological time, pangea included!
- Got popcorn ? See Smithsonian's 1hr special - Aerial America special on Colorado
- Learn about the Colorado River as it flows down into the desert in this 30 minute film.
- Choose a city and check out a discuss what you notice- webcams in CO.