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Map Exercise
Social Studies Fun
Interactive Map or Tour
Science Profiles or Narratives
Historical Profile or Biography Narrative
Oregon Interactive Map
Description: This interactive map allows students to learn all about Oregon's cities, landforms, landmarks, and places of interest by simply clicking on the points of the map.
Type: Interactive Map or Tour
Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Oregon State Quarter Outline
Description: This resource allows students to color a beautifully illustrated Oregon state quarter featuring Crater Lake.
Type: Social Studies Fun
Oregon Outline Map
Description: This map is perfect for labeling and coloring.
Type: Map Exercise
Oregon Word Search - Online
Description: This online word search requires students to find Oregon-themed words. Challenging!
Oregon Label-me Quiz
Description: This activity requires students to identify the states and body of water that surround Oregon.
Oregon State Symbols
Description: This resource allows students to color Oregon's state bird, flower, tree, and license plate. Great for interactive notebooks and state reports.
Oregon Statehood United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page
Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States Postage stamp that honors Oregon Statehood and the Conestoga Wagon.
Welcome to Oregon Highway Welcome Sign Coloring
Description: This is a coloring page that features the Welcome to Oregon Highway Sign.
Oregon Fact Sheet
Description: This map and fact sheet is perfect for state reports and projects.
Oregon Mosaic Math
Description: This fun math worksheet challenges students to use their two-digit addition and subtraction skills to correctly color Oregon from the mosaic.
Oregon Maze
Description: This activity requires students to find their way through the state of Oregon.
Oregon Flag Outline
Description: This is a beautiful outline of the Oregon state flag. Perfect for coloring, interactive notebooks, or state reports.
Crater Lake National Park - Oregon
Description: This page includes a description of Crater Lake National Park. It also features a beautiful video brought to you by the GoTraveler channel. Please note it is an embedded video and may contain ads.
Cascades Range - U.S. Land Features
Description: This page includes a description of the Cascades Range.
Coast Range - U.S. Land Features
Description: This page includes a description of the Coast Range.
Western Ranges Identification
Description: This activity describes the various mountain ranges in the western United States and requires students to identify the states in which they occur.
Columbia River - U.S. Land Features
Description: This page includes a description of the Columbia River. It is part of our U.S. Landforms series.
Snake River - U.S. Land Features
Description: This page includes a description of the Snake River. It is part of our U.S. Landforms series.
Fort Clatsop - U.S. Landmarks - Oregon
Description: This page contains a short description of Fort Clatsop in Oregon. It is part of our U.S. Landmarks series. For more information on Fort Clatsop, visit our Lewis and Clark section.
Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative
Thor's Well - Oregon
Description: This article tells all about the beautiful and mysterious ocean sinkhole on the coast of Oregon known as Thor's Well. This page contains a video also.
Type: Science Profiles or Narratives
Chinook Nation Profile
Description: This section contains detailed information on Chinook land, diet, homes, art, and culture. Perfect for reports or research.
Chinook Nation Printable Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage and ten questions.
What was a Potlatch?
Description: This is a great article that describes the northwestern tradition of potlatch.
Chinook Nation Interactive Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage and eight questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Totem Poles - World Landmarks Series
Description: This page includes information and images or videos on Totem Poles. It is part of our World Landmarks Series.
Totem Pole Maker - Online
Description: This fun activity allows students to make their own totem poles with associated meanings. Each totem pole has five symbols. These print out beautifully with the totem pole and symbolism descriptions. These take students less than five minutes to complete.
Lewis and Clark Interactive Tour
Description: This magnificent exhibit features an interactive tour of the Lewis and Clark journey.
Part 9: Lewis and Clark In Depth Tour - The Columbia River
Description: This page contains the account of the Lewis and Clark expedition reaching the Columbia River.
Part 10: Lewis and Clark In Depth Tour - Fort Clatsop
Description: This page contains a description of the winter of 1805-1806 at tiny Fort Clatsop.
Lewis and Clark Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt is designed to be used with the Lewis and Clark Interactive Tour
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 395 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Type: Reading comprehension
Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.
Comparing and Contrasting States - California and Oregon
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with California, Oregon, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Along the Oregon Trail: Interactive Tour Starting at Independence (Stop 1)
Description: This page is the first stop of our interactive Oregon Trail tour. Use the related items carousel to travel from one stop on the trail to the next.
Oregon Trail Interactive Scavenger Hunt
Description: This is an online scavenger hunt for students to use with the Oregon Trail Interactive Map
Dangers on the Westward Trails
Description: This page describes in detail the many hazards that pioneers faced in their travels west. From crippling diseases, to wagon accidents, dangerous weather, wild creatures, and attacks by Native Americans, life was very difficult on the journey west.
Description: This page describes the concept of manifest destiny and how it was used to justify expansion throughout the continent, and the expense of Native Americans and other nations.
Growth of a Nation - Oregon Territory
Description: This page describes the Oregon Territory.
Manifest Destiny Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
Manifest Destiny Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
The Pacific Rim of Fire Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
The Pacific Rim of Fire Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Western States Interactive Map
Description: This interactive map allows students to learn all about the states, cities, landforms, landmarks, and places of interest in the American West, by simply clicking on the points of the map.
Thor's Well Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.
Western States Label-me Map
Description: This map requires students to label the states of the western United States.
United States Symbols and Statistics Interactive Map
Description: This awesome interactive map allows students to learn all about state symbols such as bird, tree, flower, motto, nickname or state statistics such as area, population, highest point, electoral value and more, simply by selecting the information of interest and then mousing over the states. Incredible research tool. Enjoy the scavenger hunts that go with this map.
Conquer the States - Game
Description: This fun game challenges students to identify as many states as possible in 60 seconds.
Collage America
Description: This innovative USA Activity allows students to construct the United States by dragging and dropping the states to the map. States are illustrated with themes relative to each state. Students can choose from three different themes for each state, thereby making each "collage" different.
Bordering States Challenge!
Description: This fun activity challenges students to populate a "bordering states" chart by listing all states that border a single state, two states, three states, four states etc.
The Thing About Springfield
Description: This resource requires students to color in all of the states that contain a Springfield. There are 32 and the states are listed. Great state identification activity!
Where in the USA is Mr Nussbaum?
Description: This game challenges students to identify the state locations of as many USA Landmarks, Capitals, or Cities as possible in two minutes. Students can choose from the three aforementioned categories.
Landforms Central
Description: This educational game requires students to drag and drop the animated landforms and bodies of water to their correct places on the map of America. Examples include the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Rocky Mountains and many others.
Coast to Coast - Game
Description: This games challenges students to make a road trip across America by answering trivia questions about the states they pass through. Perfect for students interested in geography bees.
State Birds Interactive Map
Description: This beautiful clickable image allows students to learn all about America's official state birds.
National Parks Interactive Map
Description: This section features an interactive map of America's 58 national parks. Clicking on the map allows students to learn about the national park of interest, as well as watch a narrated video. Students can learn about Yellowstone, Yosemite, Death Valley, Everglades, Denali, Rocky Mountain, Arches, and many more. Perfect for state reports or reports on America's national parks.
Ameriquake - Game
Description: In this game, an "Ameriquake" occurs resulting in the state name becoming jumbled. Students must drag and drop the correct names back to their states. Students can customize the number of state names that become jumbled.
State Detective - Game
Description: This fun United States game requires students to "guess" the state the computer is "thinking" of by asking it questions about its location and its color. Students get six questions.
United States Interactive Map
United States Capital Cities Interactive Map
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