Regions of Texas
This region has many opportunities for recreational activities such as birdwatching, fishing, camping, or taking in a day of baseball at Minute Maid Park
What is the Coastal Plains?
This tribe build mounds, farmed, and generally stayed put in the North Central Plains of Texas.
Who are the Caddo?
This primary source is a life's story written by the person who lived that life.
What is an autobiography?
When Mr. K's friends write a book about his life and career as the greatest teacher of all time, they will be writing this secondary source.
What is a biography?
This Houston Astros are playing this team from far north in the American League Wild Card series.
Who are the Detroit Tigers?
Texas Tech University in Lubbock is a shining star of higher education in this northernmost region of Texas.
What is The Great Plains region?
The Karankawa used these long boats carved from trees to travel and fish along the Gulf of Mexico.
What are canoes?
Letters are useful to historians because they often include this detail that places the letter at a specific time in history.
What is a date?
This secondary source can be called "the Internet in a book." It includes brief information about many different subjects and is organized alphabetically.
What is an encyclopedia?
This date in March is celebrated at Annunciation Orthodox School as a major feast day for the Virgin Mary, as well as Greek Indepdendence Day.
What is March 25th?
El Paso and Big Bend National Park feature as the main attractions of this far western region that shares a border with Mexico.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This tribe was feared by the Natives and settlers alike due to their superior hunting, horse-riding, and fighting skills.
Who are the Comanche?
A picture is worth a thousand words. That's why historians study this primary source for visual proof of events.
What is a photograph?
These secondary sources are films that depict historical events, but are not documentaries.
What is a re-enactment?
The Houston Rockets basketball team migrated to Houston in the 1970s from this West Coast American city.
What is San Diego?
This region has much land for farming, but your crops will find themselves in the middle of "Tornado Alley!"
What is the North Central Plains region?
This type of home used by the Plains Indians was designed to be easily packed up and moved to a new location.
What is a tipi?
Arrowheads are one example of these primary sources that historians can find, study, and evaluate how Native Americans lived their lives prior to being introduced to European weapons.
Secondary sources are considered to be this "type" of hand.
What is a secondhand source?
This latest album by Taylor Swift has received praise from critics and fans alike.
What is The Tortured Poets Department?
This word meaning "weather over time" helps scientists understand how people can modify their behavior in their environment.
What is "climate"?
This Native Tribe was nomadic and roamed the Great Plains until the Comanche pushed them deep into Southwest Texas.
Who are the Apache (Lipan Apache)?
Read all about it! These printed primary sources are most often issued every day in a particular community and include specific information such as breaking news stories, sports scores, weather reports, and more!
What is a newspaper?
These secondary sources often report on stories and subjects after the events have happened and often come out each week or month.
What are magazines?
This year's Book Fair & Spaghetti Dinner theme has a "Wild" character about it.
What is Wild About Books?