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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Road Trip USA - Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont Fun Activities!

I never thought learning about Geography could be this fun! I feel really blessed that I found the Road Trip U.S.A curriculum, it has lots of great info, the activities are great, and there's also recipes from each state so you can have a "taste" of the State! Another great feature is the abundance of craft activities and today I'll be sharing all the fun we had while learning about Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Pennsylvania

While we were "visiting" the "Keystone State", we had a chance to learn that those delicious Hershey's chocolates are manufactured in Hershey, PA. Of course, we had to taste some of them... so we picked some of our favorites!



We also learned a few facts about the Liberty Bell, that was created in 1752 to commemorate liberty throughout all the land and that it was cracked on Washington's birthday in 1846 thus it doesn't ring anymore and now the bell hangs in the Liberty Bell Center in Pennsylvania. On the fun side, we had a chance to make our version of the Liberty Bell, much smaller but it rings!

A few things were needed:


Wrap the plastic cup with the foil sheet, add the bell:


Color the paper towel tube:



We even created a crack with black sharpie!

Rhode Island

We had fun also in our "road trip" to the "Ocean State". This is the smallest state (37 miles across and 48 miles long) and also has the longest name "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". For this unit we were supposed to make a sailboat craft but we opted for a paper boat instead. 

If you have Netflix, there's a documentary "America Aerial"from Smithsonian Channel that you can watch it. We did and how gorgeous that state is!



Now we all now that kids + water = fun, right!?!?

Vermont

Our "trip"to the "Green Mountain State" was very delicious indeed! While we watched the Vermont episode of the America Aerial (available on Netflix) we had some Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream!


We enjoyed very much wrapping up our trip to the North-East region of the country! Hopefully someday we can make the real road trip!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki

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