Is your North Dakota map and scroll "neat and complete?" Congratulations!
That's your ticket to US state # 39
Click the picture - welcome to North Dakota
Here's the Blue School Bus Video about North Dakota...
Now - head to South Dakota - US State # 40
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 clickable menu of South Dakota. Feed your brain!
Colored letters indicate clickable links that open a video...
- An general interactive summary of SD: Homeschool Pop Video.
- Nat'l Geo's funny rap and rhyme video on SD on 50 States and 50 birds.
- Badlands NP in 8K high definition, including drone footage - what do you notice?
- ND has 6 National Park Service Sites - send me a postcard when you visit someday!
- Why can't we see borders? Here's a this short video explains... Do you see the VT/NH line?
- Why are Native American tribes also called nations ? This short video explains...
- Without guns one could herd Bison over a cliff to hunt them; Lakota depended on the Bison
- If you were Ogala Lakota tribe and encountered new settlers - what would do?
- A brief history of the Lakota Sioux's efforts to protect their sacred black hills.
- A kid explains Sitting Bull - do you think you could make a video like this ?
- A bigger person drawings and a song to describes the life of Sitting Bull.
- This video explains the link between Sitting Bull, Custer, Catherine Weldon and Buffalo Bill...
- Videos about Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial - both in the badlands,
- Learn about the battle between Lakota Chief Crazy Horse and General George Custer
- What are differences in seen old paintings of native Americans and modern Lakota Sioux?
- Learn about Buffalo Berries and Wild Grapes
- Consider how a real pioneer wagon train would be different from a wagon train re-anctement.
- Watch a quick video about SD artist Harvey Dunn featuring classic SD lansdcapes.
- Why would people celebrate the first schoolhouse in South Dakota in 1864?
- Did you know that rubber band guns are made in SD ? Watch this video!
- Real corn, real murals, all natural and everything corn - see the Mitchell Corn Palace.
- Quick 1 min videos on: Bison, the Wall Drug Store, the Petrified Wood Park
- Check out SD Rodeo for High School students - what sports do we have that they might not?
- What do you notice about Archival 1935 footage shows Explorer II reaching 73,000 ft.
- Choose different SD travel guides (fishing, hunting, maps) to be mailed free to your home !
- Use Google Earth to visit SD - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Check out the Badlands NP in the Google Earth Tour.
- What do you see in the webcams of SD ?