US Territories

Finishing up our 50 states project with a unit on US overseas territories. We struggled with finding kids books on territories other than Puerto Rico, but we made a effort to still learn at least a bit on each.

Books on Puerto Rico:

• Puerto Rico (My United States: A True Book) by Nelson Yomtov

• Coquí in the city by Nomar Perez

• Parrots over Puerto Rico  by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore

• Schomburg : the man who built a library by Carole Boston Weatherford

• My Grandparents and I / Mis Abuelos y Yo by Samuel Caraballo

• The golden flower : a Taino myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jaffe

• Roberto Clemente : pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter

• Juan Bobo goes to work : a Puerto Rican folktale, retold by Marisa Montes

• Across the bay by Carlos Aponte

• Maxy survives the hurricane  by Ricia Anne Chansky

• Broken butterfly wings / Alas de mariposa rotas by Raquel M. Ortiz

• My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada

Books on Other Territories:

• U.S. Territories and Possessions by Jada Bradley

• U.S. territories by Sylvia McNair

• Sina and the Eel: Samoan Myth 

• https://www.nps.gov/npsa/learn/historyculture/sinatuna.htm 

• Tim Duncan : champion on and off the court  by J. Chris Roselius (Virgin Islands)

• Efa and the Mosquito by Alscess Lewis Brown (Virgin Islands) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1hXEapsN-U

Resources:

• The National Geographic Kids States page has articles on each of the territories at the end: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/states

• Puerto Rico Capitol: https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/prvi/pr5.htm

• American Samoa Arts/Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clsR3_2OYE&t=34s 

• Guam culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlsZX6Lt8VE 

• Northern Mariana Islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIkjMA0S1Fg 

• US Virgin Islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcI_h0kMVI

• Virgin Islands National Park: https://www.nps.gov/viis/index.htm 

• National Park of American Samoa: https://www.nps.gov/npsa/index.htm 

DC

I just realized (belatedly), that I never posted our last couple units to our states project. After finishing up all 50 states in alphabetical order, we did units on Washington DC,  and the territories. We didn't do art projects for these but I want to at least share the books and some other resources.

Books:

• Washington, D.C.  (My United States: A True Book) by Karen Kellaher

• N is for Our Nation’s Capital: A Washington, D.C. Alphabet by Roland & Marie Smith

• All The Way To The Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel

• How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Rookie National Parks) by Stephanie Fitzgerald

• The Capitol Building by Lisa Bullard

• How to Build a Museum by Tonya Bolden

• Mamie on The Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues by Leah Henderson

• Sweet land of liberty by Deborah Hopkinson

• First garden : the White House garden and how it grew by Robbin Gourley

• Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons 

• Grace goes to Washington by Kelly DiPucchio

• Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen

• Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten by Laura Veirs

• Brick by brick by Charles R. Smith Jr.

• Keep on! : the story of Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole written by Deborah Hopkinson

• The peace tree from Hiroshima : a little bonsai with a big story by Sandra Moore

• We want to go to school! : the fight for disability rights by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and Janine Leffler

• Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith E Heumann

• If You Want a Friend in Washington: Wacky, Wild & Wonderful Presidential Pets by Erin McGill

• About Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC’s non-voting congressional representative)

• https://norton.house.gov/about/full-biography 

Resources:

• US Capitol: https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-capitol 

• Video Tour: https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/education-resource/video-tour-capitol 

• DC Virtual Tour: https://washington.org/discover-dc-360
• About DC Statehood movement: 
• Current DC Governance: https://statehood.dc.gov/page/dc-governance 
• Why Statehood: https://statehood.dc.gov/page/why-statehood-dc 
• Go go music: https://washington.org/visit-dc/gogo-music
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiWIsX-kAjc
• Smithsonians: https://www.si.edu/about