THE TRUE STORY OF NICKEL, The Baby Buffalo Who Thought He Was A Dog
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Thematic Teacher’s Guide: Geography
By Nancy Savage and Andrea Krull, Jefferson County School District, Ralston Elementary
Patterns and Illustrations by Kathy Parks
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License Plate Fun: invent your own funny plates with numbers and letters. Look for plates from other states. Find those states on a map. |
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On a map put a colored dot on NY City and one on the state where you live. Measure how many miles are between them. |
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If you drove 500 miles in one day, about how many days would it take to drive from NY City to your city? |
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Newspaper clippings of Nickel went all over the world. Put a small piece of paper on a globe on Japan, Switzerland and Germany, some of the places where Nickel was in the newspaper. |
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On a blank map (click here) use tiny icons of buffalo to show where the buffalo roamed. Use www.nbabison.com for a map of 1870. What states did the buffalo roam in? |
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See the tunnel under I-70 on pages 23 and 30. The herd is in Colorado at Exit 254 on I-70. Find a map and trace I-70 on it. What states does I-70 go through? How would you get to I-70 from where you live? |
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The buffalo compound on page 24 is named Elkatraz. This is a pun named after a famous prison. What is a pun? Find the prison on a map. |
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Bison were brought from Yellowstone (page 32). Find Yellowstone Park on a map. |
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Find Colorado on a map. Then find Denver. |
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The foothills of the Colorado Rockies are on pages 4 and 5. What are foothills? How big are they? What is the difference between a foothill and a mountain? Find them on a map. What other states are the Rocky Mountains in? |
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People say howdy in the west (page 30). How do people say hi in other places in the US? In the world? |
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What is different about the scenery on pages 5, 29 and 30 from where you live? Name five differences. |
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Genesee Park is one of 28 Denver Mountain Parks. How many parks are in your city? What are their names? Why are parks important in a city? |
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