Is your Wyoming map and scroll "neat and complete?" Congratulations!
That's your ticket to US state # 44
Click the picture - video from Wyoming (WY)
Here's the Blue School Bus Video recapping WY first...
Now - head to Utah - US State # 45
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 Show your scroll to your caregiver and read the whole menu below and choose links to explore...
Copyright courtesy/waived thanks to Scholastic during the 2020 pandemic.
Read the menu of Utah. Grow your brain power!
Colored letters indicate clickable links and videos to explore...
- An excellent overview of UT in this Homeschool Pop Video.
- WOW - interactive maps and the transcontinental railroad: trains sped westward migration.
- UT was also connecting point for transcontinental telegraph, that killed the Pony Express
- Choose the Mormon Trail?-> interactive read along - it reads the text to you!
- Want the Oregon Trail? -> interactive read along - it reads the text to you!
- Or the California Trail? -> interactive read along - it reads the text to you!
- Why do people do historical re-enactments? Watch the 150th birthday of the golden spike.
- Nat'l Geo 2 min video on the Bonneville Salt Flats - land speed records made here!
- 3 minutes on the adaptions of bighorn sheep in their native habitat in the Utah.
- 3 minutes on how Juniper Berry survives in the high desert - how did people survive?
- Google earth audio and visual tour of the mesmerizing Bryce Canyon
- Do you like to ride a bike? Watch 5 min of the amazing UT trail called "the Enchalida."
- Here's a 4 minute video of Zion NP shot in high definition 8K video.
- UT's silly roadside attractions can be found here in this list.
- Order a UT travel guide to be mailed free to your home - mail is fun!
- UT has 13 National Parks - check the list - which one interests you the most?
- Use Google Earth to visit UT - zoom into the two places you noted on your scroll!
- Aerial America - Smithsonian: "If there's one state that looks like a different planet, it's UT!"