USA study: South Dakota

State Facts:

     1.  Mount Rushmore, one of the biggest sculptures in the world, is in this state.  More than 90% of the monument was carved using dynamite.
     2.  Mitchell, South Dakota is the corn capital of the world.
     3.  Once complete, the sculpture of Crazy Horse will be the biggest monument in the world.

South Dakota

by Ann Heinricks

A Dinosaur named Sue

by Fay Robinson

(BEWARE: This is not Creation based!  You will have to change your words or explain with younger kids!)

Dakota Dugout

by Ronald Himbler

M is for Mount Rushmore

by William Anderson

We watched this video on the Badlands.

This one is from the Department of Tourism.

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Presidents Study: Harry Truman books and crafts

Harry Truman

by Paul Joseph

Harry Truman

by Mike Venzia

Harry Truman learned the piano at a young age and became very good at it.  Practicing piano with Bailee!!

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Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 16-18

Lesson 16 Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince

For this lesson I added this video in from the library:

Renaissance art, music & literature DVD

Lesson 17 Raphael

Raphael

by Mike Venzia

Lesson 18 Martin Luther and the 95 Theses

For this lesson we read through the 95 theses.

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USA study: Ohio

State facts:

     1.  Thomas Edison was from Ohio and invented the light bulb.

     2.  Cleveland was the first city to use electric street lamps.

     3.  The famous sharpshooter, Annie Oakley was born in Ohio.

     4.  Neil Armstrong, who was the first man on the moon, was from Ohio.

Shooting for the Moon 

by Stephen Krensky

One Giant Leap

by Don Brown

B is for Buckeye

by Marcia Schonberg

Flatboats on the Ohio

by Catherine Chambers

Drawing a flatboat in a storm from our Draw Write Now book.

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Presidents Study: Franklin Roosevelt books and crafts

Make your Mark Franklin Roosevelt

by Judith St George

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

by Ted and Lola Schaefer

Breakfast at the Liberty Diner

by Daniel Kirk

Franklin and Winston

by Douglas Wood

Franklin Roosevelt

by Mike Venzia

A Boy Named FDR

by Kathleen Krull

First Dog Fala

by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

Life in the Timeof Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression

by Terri DeGezelle

His Favorite hymn was "Faith of our Fathers" which we listened to.

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USA study: North Dakota

State facts:
     1.  The middle of the North America is in Rugby,North Dakota.
     2.  90% of the land is covered farms and ranches.
     3.  Cream of Wheat was invented in Grand Forks in 1893.
     4.  The largest hamburger was made in 1982 in Rutland, North Dakota.  It came in at 3,591 pounds.

Sitting Bull

by Lucille Penner

North Dakota

by Pam Zollman

North Dakota

by M.J. York

P is for Peace Garden

by Roxanne Salonen

The Great Race of the Birds and Animals

by Paul Goble

River Friendly, River Wild

by Jane Kurtz


Rugby, North Dakota is said to be the center of North America.  So we thought we would check it out and see.  I printed out a page on North America and we colored in North Dakota.

Then he folded it in half twice.

Ours was a state off, but I explained to him that the map off Google I downloaded may have been  little distorted!

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Earth and its Moon

What makes Day and Night

by Franklyn Branley

The Moon Seems to Change

by Franklyn Branley

What the Moon is Like
by Franklyn Branley


Here is a lesson on Eclipses.

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