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This unit has be created for students presently in grades 4 &
5. Learning about your own state should be an important part of the social studies curriculum.
Please check out all of the sites listed on the resource page to be sure that they are appropriate for your students. As you all know
sites change without warning.
Along with the Internet sites the following books can be used as reference tools.
 Portrait
of America-Rhode Island
 The
Rhode Island Colony
 Rhode
Island
 from
Sea to Shining Sea-Rhode Island
My First Book About Rhode Island- This is a reproducible coloring/information book.
Big Rhode Island Reproducible Book- All sorts of activities can be found in this book which is state specific.
All of the above books are available at Barnes
& Noble Bookstore.
Warwick, RI teachers should also have Rhode Island-The
Ocean State written by Donald A. D'Amato (a former Warwick
teacher).
You might also like to invite local residents to come and speak to the students about their life in Rhode Island.
I have included some student activity pages. Please click on the
activity names below to print out student copies or have the students access them from the Process section.
A page of original photos taken by me has also been included for
your use.
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