Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Discover North and Central America

-Learn the Map of Canada and here. -Learn the 50 States - Get to know the states of Central America -Learn about animals of the Americas and the biomes (biomes 2) that they are found in. You may also just focus on one region, such as Canadian Animals.

-If you were visiting the US and could go anywhere at all where would you choose and why? Create a travel brochure you would like to see of a place you would want to visit.

-Learn About the Hudson Bay Company

-Learn the names and location of the Great Lakes. (Canada) or Great Lakes (US.)

-Learn about fur trapping in Canada and the US.

-Research and report about dinosaurs (Dinoasur 2) and dinosaur remains in North America.

-Study various group of native Americans like the Cherokee, Algonquin, Hopi, Navajo, Abenaki, Apache, Alapachees, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chinooks, and more. (There are many more!) Do a report on an an American Indian culture, history, arts, language and location.

- Mexico has a Constitution. Learn about Mexico from the Mexican Government.

-read about the American Government, white house history or a US president.

-Read about the Canadian Government. How do they make laws and keep order?

-Study and learn about Canada' s mounted police. (also referred to as the RCMP)

-Learn about Passports.

Learn about the Statue of Liberty.

-HAve a fiesta! Make some Mexican Food and break open a pinata, or eat at a Mexican Food Restaurant

-Learn some basic Spanish in case you visit south of the border or to a southern state.

-Learn some basic French in case you head North of the border.

-Read, learn and report about the Alamo.

-Make a map of missions and write about missionary history in the west.
Maybe you want to read some alternative views on Christian Missions and
missionaries too.

-Chart the course of Lewis and Clark on a map, read a story about them and write a report. Play a National Geographic game about them.

-Learn about the industrialization of America, Railroads, steam engines, cars. How about the Underground Railroad too?

-Read and report on interesting to you animals of North America (land or sea.) Also try the Enchanted learning.com website for materials.





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