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Below are links to various materials we've created to support students' work on the unit theme: Land of Opportunity.

• Classroom Activities: To extend instruction, here are some creative activities you can print and use in your classroom.
  • Community Close-Up Brochures (Art/Language Arts/Social Studies)
  • A Community Resource Map (Art/Social Studies)
• Theme Project Organizer: This is a worksheet you can print and distribute to students to help them track their work on the Theme Project.
• Theme Project Links: Here are Internet resources for students to use while working on the Theme Project.

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Internet resources can be used to support instruction of the “Think Like a Geographer” feature for this unit: How Were Arkansas' Boundaries Established?

Color Landform Atlas: Arkansas

The Color Landform Atlas of the United States contains topographical and political maps to the county level for each of the fifty states. This URL brings you directly to a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state of Arkansas.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/ar_0.html

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Internet resources can be used to support instruction of the “Citizenship” feature for this unit: How Can You Help?

Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

Here you will find tips for how kids can help preserve the environment.

http://www.kab.org/network.asp?id=200&rid=201/

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