Books in South Dakota Experience series

The Big North Dakota Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about North Dakota. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The Government Projects Book includes making a three branches state government tree and adding leaves of each branch's functions, designing a simple census questionnaire, staging a mock classroom election, holding a meeting with Robert's Rules of Order and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The People Projects Book includes using sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized state People on Parade, making a diversity flag, writing a poem about a state poet, designing a scrapbook of famous state women and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The Geography Projects Book includes creating a montage of the wildlife that lives in your state using cut-out pictures, recreating the path of a state river with pipe cleaners, building a state tree from fresh or dried leaves or needles from as many types of trees as possible, testing soil samples and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

The perfect reference guide for students in grades 3 and up - or anyone! This handy, easy-to-use reference guide is divided into seven color-coded sections which includes North Dakota basic facts, geography, history, people, places, nature and miscellaneous information. Each section is color coded for easy recognition. This Pocket Guide comes with complete and comprehensive facts ALL about North Dakota. Riddles, recipes, and surprising facts make this guide a delight! North Dakota Basics section explores your state's symbols and their special meaning. North Dakota Geography section digs up the what's where in North Dakota. North Dakota History section is like traveling through time to some of North Dakota's greatest moments. North Dakota People section introduces you to famous personalities and your next-door neighbors. North Dakota Places section shows you where you might enjoy your next family vacation. North Dakota Nature section tells what Mother Nature gave to North Dakota. North Dakota Miscellaneous section describes the real fun stuff ALL about North Dakota.

The North Dakota Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of North Dakota. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The North Dakota Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The 20 North Dakota Primary Sources are: • Illustration of Road Maker, a Hidatsa chief – circa 1840• Photograph of hunting and camping party of George Armstrong Custer and guests near area that later became Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park – Dakota Territory – 1875• Dakota Territory coat of arms – 1876• Political cartoon featuring Indian warrior surrounded by representatives of the Interior Department and the War Department – 1878• Cabinet card featuring photograph of Sitting Bull – 1881• Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt – was rancher in North Dakota 1880s – photo 1883• Photograph of men with threshing machine harvesting grain – Beach, North Dakota – circa 1910• Postcard featuring downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota – 1912• Photograph of sewing class at Bismarck Indian School – circa 1920• Photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt speaking at Bismarck, North Dakota – 1936• Photograph of sod homestead near Bowman, North Dakota – 1936• Photograph of farm family window shopping – Williston, North Dakota – 1937• Photograph of hardware store window – Crosby, North Dakota – 1937• Photograph of farm children playing with homemade merry-go-round – Williams County, North Dakota – 1937• Photograph of Great Northern Railway station in Fargo, North Dakota – 1939• Photograph of grain elevator and flour mill – Fargo, North Dakota – 1939• Postage stamp commemorating Lewis and Clark Expedition – stamp issued 1954• Photograph of painted mural at Missile Alert Facility Alpha- Zero – Grand Forks Air Force Base – 2000• Photograph of sunflower field in Fargo – North Dakota is one of nation’s top sunflower-producing states – 2005• Population density map of North Dakota – 2010Your students will: • think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. • participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. • integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. • experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.

I’m Reading About North Dakota is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes North Dakota unique. I’m Reading about North Dakota helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about North Dakota. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I’m Reading About North Dakota topics include:Native AmericansExplorersSettlementStatehoodFlagCapitalSealNicknameBordersCountiesPeopleBirdFlowerTreeInsectGreat PlainsBadlandsRiversLandmarkAgricultureSportsClaim to FameGlossaryAnd More!

I spent one winter researching the holiday history, folklore, legend, and more of each and every state,' says Carole marsh. A great coffee-table book or classroom read, this book-in an edition for each U.S. state-shares a wealth of fascinating historical material and trivia about everything from holiday traditions to how we got the Christmas tree, superstitions, and more. From the Yule logs of Maine to snow on the Alamo, you'll love your own state book, but wish you could read them all. Don't forget to send your favorite teacher or grandchild a copy for their state!

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

The perfect reference guide for students in grades 3 and up - or anyone! This handy, easy-to-use reference guide is divided into seven color-coded sections which includes North Dakota basic facts, geography, history, people, places, nature and miscellaneous information. Each section is color coded for easy recognition. This Pocket Guide comes with complete and comprehensive facts ALL about North Dakota. Riddles, recipes, and surprising facts make this guide a delight! North Dakota Basics section explores your state's symbols and their special meaning. North Dakota Geography section digs up the what's where in North Dakota. North Dakota History section is like traveling through time to some of North Dakota's greatest moments. North Dakota People section introduces you to famous personalities and your next-door neighbors. North Dakota Places section shows you where you might enjoy your next family vacation. North Dakota Nature section tells what Mother Nature gave to North Dakota. North Dakota Miscellaneous section describes the real fun stuff ALL about North Dakota.