Description
These pages are designed to aid students in organizing reports, drawings, pictures, and other items about his or her home state into a beautiful treasury of information. The outline format guides students through an entire course of state history. Your child will not only gain first-hand information, but is given the opportunity to learn good research skills as well. The introduction contains suggestions for additional projects and other resources. The pages are divided into:
- Facts, Symbols, Emblems (e.g., state flower, tree, flag)
- Geography, Population
- Industries, Jobs
- History, Government
- Miscellaneous, Field Trips, Photographs
Suggested activities include
- Interviewing a new resident and an old resident
- Visiting the capital; making a time line
- Reporting on field trips
- Drawing the state flag, tree, bird, flower, and seal
- Creating graphs of various kinds
- Making a relief map
- Creating a climate map
- Learning about immigration into his/her own state
These pages provide many opportunities for a student to be creative and to make a finished project of which he or she will be proud. The cover page can be used as a template for the student’s photos and/or artwork and it is printed on heavy-stock paper and laid out in old-fashioned scrapbook style.
The pages are 3-hole punched and ready to be inserted into a 1/2 inch binder, supplied by the customer.
