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Kansas Interactive Map

Description: This interactive map allows students to learn all about Kansas's cities, landforms, landmarks, and places of interest by simply clicking on the points of the map.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Scavenger Hunt

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed to be used with the Kansas interactive map.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas State Quarter Outline

Description: This resources include a beautifully detailed outline of the New Hampshire state quarter, featuring the American bison. Perfect for state reports and interactive notebooks.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Symbols

Description: This resource allows students to color Kansas's state bird, flower, tree, and license plate. Great for interactive notebooks and state reports.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Welcome to Kansas Highway Welcome Sign Coloring

Description: This is a coloring page that features the Welcome to Kansas Highway Sign.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Statehood United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States Postage stamp that honors Kansas statehood.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Flag Outline

Description: This is a beautiful outline of the Kansas state flag. Perfect for coloring, interactive notebooks, or state reports.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Fact Sheet

Description: This map and fact sheet is perfect for state reports and projects.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Mosaic Math

Description: This fun math worksheet challenges students to use their two-digit addition and subtraction skills to correctly color Kansas from the mosaic.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4

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Kansas Outline Map

Description: This outline map is perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Maze

Description: This maze requires students to find their way from Dodge City to Lawrence.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Kansas Word Search - Online

Description: This interactive word search requires students to find Kansas-themed words.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Comparing and Contrasting States - Kansas and Nebraska

Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Kansas, Nebraska, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Comparing and Contrasting States - Kansas and Missouri

Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Kansas, Missouri, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Sentence Surgeons

Description: This activity requires students to correct poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation from three Kansas-themed sentences. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kansas Correct-me Passage

Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about Kansas and to correct the incorrect facts. Students must click on the words in the paragraph that are incorrect and select the correct answer from the menu that appears. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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The Kansas Map - Fact or Fiction

Description: This activity requires students to analyze eight statements about the Kansas map and determine whether each is fact or fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Great Plains - U.S. Land Features

Description: This page includes a description of the Great Plains. It is part of our U.S. Landforms series.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Arkansas River - U.S. Land Features

Description: This page includes a description of the Arkansas River. It is part of our U.S. Landforms series.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Missouri River - U.S. Land Features

Description: This page includes a description of the Missouri River. It is part of our U.S. Landforms series.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Missouri River States Label-me Map

Description: This activity requires students to label the Missouri River states.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Dodge City - U.S. Landmarks - Kansas

Description: This page contains a short description of Dodge City in Kansas. It is part of our U.S. Landmarks series.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Topeka - U.S. Landmarks - Kansas

Description: This page contains a short description about Topeka, Kansas and the landmark Brown vs the Board of Education ruling. It is part of our U.S. Landmarks series.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Description and Map

Description: This page describes the Louisiana Purchase.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Label-me Quiz - Online

Description: This activity requires students to identify the states that would eventually be carved from the Louisiana Territory

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Label-me Quiz

Description: This activity requires students to label the states that would eventually be carved from the Louisiana Territory.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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The Sante Fe Trail - Introduction and Interactive Tour

Description: This page describes the Santa Fe Trail and is the first page of our Santa Fe Trail interactive tour. Use the related items carousel to take the tour.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Description: This page describes the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act authored by Stephen A. Douglas

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Kansas-Nebraska Act Reading Comprehension - Causes of the Civil War - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Kansas-Nebraska Act Reading Comprehension - Causes of the Civil War

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Bleeding Kansas Billboard - Causes of the Civil War

Description: This activity requires students to build use their knowledge about the forces that created "Bleeding Kansas" to design a "billboard" urging abolitionists to settle in Kansas.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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College Mascots

Description: This activity challenges students to dream up meanings for four iconic college mascots - the North Carolina Tarheel, Oklahoma Tarheel, Kansas Jayhawk, and Arkansas Razorbacks.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Dodge City Kansas Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Dodge City Kansas Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Amelia Earhart Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 906 words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Amelia Earhart Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 906 words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7 +

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Topeka, Kansas, Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Topeka, Kansas, Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Midwestern States Label-me Quiz - Online

Description: This activity requires students to identify the midwestern states.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Midwestern States Label-me Map

Description: This is an outline of the Midwestern states for students to label and color.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Midwestern States Interactive Map

Description: This interactive map allows students to learn all about the cities, landforms, landmarks, and places of interest of the midwestern states by simply clicking on the points of the map.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tornado Maker

Description: This wildly fun activity challenges students to spawn powerful tornadoes with their typing skills. The faster a students can type the "tornado-themed" words that appear, the more powerful the tornado becomes. Students have 25 total seconds to type as many words as possible. If students can produce super-massive tornadoes , exceeding 500 mph, their tornadoes can turn into sharknadoes, pignadoes, frognadoes, and other kinds of tornadoes.

Type: Science Games

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tornadoes Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Tornadoes Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Tornado Alley Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Tornado Alley Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Great Plains Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Great Plains Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a short passage and four 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.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Life on the Prairie Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Cawker City, Kansas, Ball of Twine Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Cawker City, Kansas, Ball of Twine Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Conquer the States - Game

Description: This fun game challenges students to identify as many states as possible in 60 seconds.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Maptivation - Online Map Making

Description: This is an awesome resource that allows kids to label and color maps online. States, regions, nations, and more are available. It can be a bit "glitchy" at time as the kids say, but by and large it is perfect for online coloring, printing, and labeling maps. Fill tool problem is now FIXED.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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50 State Word Search

Description: This epic word search requires students to find all 50 states!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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State Tunes by Rocknoceros

Description: Click on a state to hear its song as performed by the world-famous kids' band Rocknoceros.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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State Tunes by Rocknoceros Scavenger Hunt

Description: This is designed for use with the State Tunes by Rocknoceros Interactive Map

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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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.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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United States Capital Cities Interactive Map

Description: This awesome interactive map allows students to click on any of America's capital cities to learn about their histories and points of interest.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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United States Capitals Printable Word Search

Description: This challenging word search requires students to find all 50 state capitals!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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United States Capitals Trivia Worksheet

Description: This fun worksheet includes a vibrant map of U.S. capitol cities and eight questions designed for students to analyze the map and (maybe) conduct a little research. For use with the United States Capitals Interactive Map

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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United States Capitals Scavenger Hunt (Version 1)

Description: This challenging scavenger hunt requires students to answer nine questions about America's capital cities. It is designed for use with the United States Capitals Interactive Map.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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United States Capitals Scavenger Hunt (Version 2)

Description: This challenging scavenger hunt requires students to answer nine questions about America's capital cities. It is designed for use with the United States Capitals Interactive Map.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

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State Logic Puzzle Version 1

Description: This challenging worksheet requires students to determine the state of interest with deductive reasoning and logic.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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State Logic Puzzle Version 2

Description: This challenging worksheet requires students to determine the state of interest with deductive reasoning and logic.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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