Free Info for State Studies

Over the past month we have been receiving travel guides, brochures, and maps from all the states in the US. We ordered them free from each state's tourism website. We thought this would be a great way to learn more about each state, and indeed it has proven to be so.

The travel guides, which are the size of magazines, give basic state info, such as state symbols, population, climate, etc. The photos are beautiful! Not only is there information about the political and geographic aspects of the state, there is also a lot of information about historical events, people, and places, and on native wildlife, too!

We have Civil War maps and booklets from a lot of states, info on the Western Expansion, Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery, Colonial life, presidential biographies, Native American heritage, the list goes on...

Along with the travel guides, we also received a map of each state. The girls have had a lot of fun looking them over.

Some states had guides specifically for children, too.

It took me a while to look up and find all fifty states and Washington D.C.'s travel sites, but it was well worth it for such valuable information!

Mark's enjoyed reading them, too. He's always pointing out places that would be great to visit some day!