Regions of Texas
Native Life
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Wild Card
100

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?

100

This tribe build mounds, farmed, and generally stayed put in the North Central Plains of Texas.

Who are the Caddo?

100

This primary source is a life's story written by the person who lived that life.

What is an autobiography?

100

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?

100

This Houston Astros are playing this team from far north in the American League Wild Card series.

Who are the Detroit Tigers?

200

Texas Tech University in Lubbock is a shining star of higher education in this northernmost region of Texas.

What is The Great Plains region?

200

The Karankawa used these long boats carved from trees to travel and fish along the Gulf of Mexico.

What are canoes?

200

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?

200

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?

200

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?

300

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?

300

This tribe was feared by the Natives and settlers alike due to their superior hunting, horse-riding, and fighting skills.

Who are the Comanche?

300

A picture is worth a thousand words. That's why historians study this primary source for visual proof of events.

What is a photograph?

300

These secondary sources are films that depict historical events, but are not documentaries.

What is a re-enactment?

300

The Houston Rockets basketball team migrated to Houston in the 1970s from this West Coast American city.

What is San Diego?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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.

What are artifacts?
400

Secondary sources are considered to be this "type" of hand.

What is a secondhand source?

400

This latest album by Taylor Swift has received praise from critics and fans alike.

What is The Tortured Poets Department?

500

This word meaning "weather over time" helps scientists understand how people can modify their behavior in their environment.

What is "climate"?

500

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)?

500

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?

500

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?

500

This year's Book Fair & Spaghetti Dinner theme has a "Wild" character about it.

What is Wild About Books?