This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The Symbols Projects Book includes creating a model of the state bird, counting popcorn to visualize state population, creating state borders using craft materials, making a scrapbook of unique state facts and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

Grades K-8. Features 30 state specific projects for kids to complete-and includes actual state facts. Each project is quick, easy, and inexpensive! Projects include: creating a model of the state bird; building a toothpick railroad track; creating state borders using craft materials; creating a fishbowl with the state fish using jello and gummy fish; and more! Students will have a blast creating projects sure to end up as part of a state symbols & facts resource center-all about your state! Most projects use ordinary, easy-to-access materials. 32 pages.

A basic field guide format introduces 13 Texas state symbols. Includes color photographs and range maps.

State Symbols of Texas Information about what is living and growing in our great state. This is an introduction for traveling in Texas. Texas Songs, State large mammal is the Longhorn, State small Mammal is the Armadillo. State bird is the Mockingbird. State fish is the Guadalupe Bass. State reptile is the Texas Horned Lizard. What is the state pastry? State sport? and more

2005-2006 North Carolina Children's Book Award Master List 2007 Arizona Young Reader Award Picture Book Master List 2005 Winner, Storytelling World Award Children's Books Top Picks, Southwest Books of the Year 2004 2005 Texas Library Association's 2 x 2 Reading List A blue norther's a-blowing', and Miss Billie Armadilly is hankering to make a pot of chili! Only she needs to fix it all by herself because Tex the tarantula, Mackie the bluebird, and Taffy the horned toad are too busy to lend a hand. Well, she'll eat it all by herself, too! But then the smell of chili cooking in the cold night brings her friends one by one back to Miss Billie's door. What's a lady armadillo to do?

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The People Projects Book includes using sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized state People on Parade, making a diversity flag, writing a poem about a state poet, designing a scrapbook of famous state women and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.