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The Cold War and Arms Race Lesson
Aug 2, 2017 Designing and launching rockets This is part 6 in an 8 part unit study on Russia. Design and launch various types of rockets, dramatize the Berlin Airlift and the Chocolate Pilot, prepare and eat blini, and more while learning about the Cold War and the Arms Race. Also included are our…
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Siberia Lesson
Feb 3, 2017 Sketching an Aurora Borealis landscape scene using pastels This is part 4 in an 8 part unit study on Russia. Sketch an Aurora Borealis landscape scene using pastels, making grape jelly to demonstrate the smelting process, cut out various shapes of snowflakes, dress up as and pretend to be musk oxen,…
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The Science of Bread
Feb 3, 2017 What makes bread rise? Does the water temperature really matter? What about sugar? What’s the difference between whole wheat and white flour? What does wheat look like? Find out all this and more in this fun, hands-on lesson or “play date” activity! I created this “lesson” to do as a three…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on Colorado
January 13, 2017Front Range Peaks west of Denver | Source Are you looking for fun worksheets, books, and activity ideas for teaching and/or learning about Colorado? Included are links to our favorite worksheets and lapbook pages, book suggestions for children, points of interest, and YouTube video clips — all related to the state of…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on Texas
Dec 20, 2016 Are you looking for fun worksheets and lapbook pages, children’s books, and YouTube video clips for teaching and/or learning about Texas? Whether you’re a school teacher, homeschooling parent, involved parent, librarian, lifelong learner, or a student searching for ideas and books on Texas, look no further! This is part of a…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on Kansas
Dec 19, 2016 Are you looking for fun worksheets and lapbook pages, children’s books, and YouTube video clips for teaching and/or learning about Kansas? Whether you’re a school teacher, homeschooling parent, involved parent, librarian, lifelong learner, or a student searching for ideas and books on Kansas, look no further! This is part of a…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on Oregon
December 17, 2016Heceta Head Lighthouse | Source Are you looking for fun worksheets and lapbook pages, children’s books, and YouTube video clips for teaching and/or learning about Oregon? Whether you’re a school teacher, homeschooling parent, involved parent, librarian, lifelong learner, or a student searching for ideas and books on Oregon, look no further! This…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on North Dakota
Dec 15, 2016 Are you looking for fun worksheets and lapbook pages, children’s books, and YouTube video clips for teaching and/or learning about North Dakota? Whether you’re a school teacher, homeschooling parent, involved parent, librarian, lifelong learner, or a student searching for ideas and books on North Dakota, look no further! This is part…
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Best Children’s Books, Videos, and Free Worksheets on Tennessee
Dec 15, 2016 Are you for great children’s books, YouTube video clips, free worksheets and lapbooks, and points of interest for teaching and/or learning about Tennessee? Here you will find my favorite picks we used while studying the individual fifty states of America. This is part of a series of pages I created while…
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Pacific Coast States Lesson
Dec 13, 2016 Washington Apple Tasting This is part 6 of a 9 part hands-on unit study on the 50 States. Bake & eat Washington Apple Pie, create “Starbucks” coffee grounds play-dough, piece together “fossils” excavated from “La Brea Tar Pits,” make “salmon” fish prints, build and test out marshmallow structures that will withstand…