Great States! : Over 200 First-Rate Reproducible Activity Sheets to Fascinate and Educate

Treat your students to an exciting hot air balloon ride across the USA. There's lots to see and do as each state is visited (the District of Columbia, too), its history and geography explored, and fascinating facts explained. There are map activities, places and physical features to identify, and topics for further investigation. There are parks, lakes, mountains and swamps to discover as well as the thousands of plants and animals that share our land and water. This product has been selected by a national panel of classroom teachers as a winner of Learning Magazine's Teachers' Choice Award. / Reproducible Book / Geography, Homeschool, Map Skills, Title 1, Social Studies, Summer Learning - July

Cindy Barden began working as a full-time free-lance author and educational consultant in 1990 after a career in Personnel Administration and Management. "Once my two sons, Aaron and Jay, were grown, I was able to devote my time to doing what I love best--writing."

Cindy received her English degree from the University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh. She has written educational activity books, short stories, poetry and news articles. Cindy designs word puzzles and games for a number of publications.

Cindy and her husband, Ross, live in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They enjoy working together on projects around the house. When she isn't' writing, Cindy enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, Devan and Tori; reading; watching the Green Bay Packers win; making jigsaw puzzles and collecting trivia.