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Washington state unit study

February 12, 2018 By Ticia 4 Comments

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When I was in third grade my school got Weekly Reader newspapers.  They were small papers with a theme, one week the theme was Mount Saint Helens and the great volcano eruption.  Somehow in my head Mount Saint Helens had just erupted.  In reality Mount Saint Helens erupted several years earlier, and they were reporting on how the mountain was recovering after the eruption.  Either way, our Washington state unit study for homeschool geography had some fun Mount Saint Helens stuff because that’s what I think of with Washington state.

Make you read to the bottom to get the Washington State printable we used.

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Washington state books

My library had pitifully few books on Washington state, but we used most of them in some form or another for our Washington State unit study.

washington state books read your world

The Floating House– This was more about traveling to there, and only vaguely related to Washington State, but I like books like this.

Volcano: the Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens– I told you I liked the Mount Saint Helens stuff

Will it blow?: become a volcano detective at Mount St. Helens– I don’t remember much about this, but it’s fun

Who is Bill Gates– because you can’t talk about Washington state without talking about Bill Gates and how Microsoft has changed the world

Chinese Immigrants in America: an interactive history adventure– sadly we didn’t get to dig into this one

Washington– a generic book about the state, but full of information

E is for Evergreen– I love this series, and while my library did not have THIS book, I did use the publisher’s website for activity ideas

 

Our Washington State activities

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse- I never came up with a good activity for this, but I find it fascinating as a piece of history. You could make a bridge

Mount Saint Helens eruption– this was a big hit with everyone

Oregon Trail– we’ve done several projects with this, but this is the only one I’ve written about so far

Oregon Trail game– all right, so I got this one after we finished the unit, but I’m adding it in because if I’d owned it then we would have played it

Sadly we didn’t have a lot to do with this state, but I did have fun reading some of our books.

And don’t forget the Washington State Printable

 

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  1. Natalie PlanetSmarty says

    February 17, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    Cool activities! We are thinking of visiting Seattle this spring 🙂

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    • Ticia says

      February 25, 2018 at 9:44 pm

      I go back and forth on wanting to visit there. Jeff thinks the weather sounds wonderful, but I think all the rain and gray sounds terrible.

  2. Jessica C says

    March 19, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    It’s a beautiful state that does have days of sun. =) There are the mountains, the ocean, and then the East side that is totally different. There is something for everyone here. We live in Olympia.

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    • Ticia says

      March 20, 2018 at 7:41 am

      How cool, it’s a long drive to get over there, so I’ve never visited, but visiting all 50 states is on my dream to do list.

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