North Dakota

 For North Dakota we especially enjoyed learning about Native stories and traditions from the area. On another front, the book Dinomummy, about a remarkable dinosaur discovery in the area, was also very fun and informative! We also highly recommend this article about the calculation of the geographical center of North America which lies somewhere in North Dakota.

Books:

• North Dakota (A True Book: My United States) by Ann O. Squire

• P is for Peace Garden: A North Dakota Alphabet by Roxane B. Salonen

• Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story by S. D. Nelson

• The Star People: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson

• The Range Eternal by Louise Erdrich

• Josie Dances by Denise Lajimodiere

• Bad River Boys by Virigina Driving Hawk Sneve

• River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz

• Dinomummy - The Life, Death and Discovery of Dakota, A Dinosaur From Hell Creek by Dr Phillip Lars Manning 

• Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan

• King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige by Wes Tooke

• The Great Race of Birds and Animals by Paul Goble

• The Standing Rock Sioux Challenge and the Dakota Access Pipeline by Clara MacClarald

Art Project:

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

For North Dakota, the kids chose to depict a scene at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, with bison roaming the landscape. Colored sharpies were used for the outlines, with oil pastels for the bison and landscape, and watercolors for the water and sky.