Washington state unit – Adventures in a Messy Life
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 volcanic 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 for homeschool geography had some fun Mount Saint Helens stuff because that’s what I think of with Washington state.
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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.
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.
Washington State notebooking pages
We used our United States notebooking pages.
We filled it out and added in the minibooks (which you find find on my subscriber page, JOIN MY NEWSLETTER, which also as part of the welcome series you’ll get a coupon to get the United States notebooking pages free).
My favorite facts I wrote down:
- It became a state in 1889
- 60% population is in Seattle (that is insane)
More Geography here
- By Pfly (talk · contribs), on flickr – View north from the trail, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6225427
- Originally published February 12, 2018
