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Heading into our Nebraska State Study I knew Nebraska was the cornhusker state. Aaaaaannnnnd that’s it. I went into research mode and found some cool events and fun ideas. Then I checked my library and found half a dozen or so books, and put together our Nebraska state study for our geography lessons.

(there are affiliate links in here, huh now that I’m done writing there actually aren’t any)

What all we used for our Nebraska state study

Nebraska state printable (over on the subscriber page, join my newsletter and get access)
United States notebooking pages (you get a coupon for this in the Welcome series for my
Nebraska book list
Kool-Aid Cookies (since I found out Kool-Aid was invented there)

Quick Facts on Nebraska

This is where I went to find out a bit more about the state of Nebraska

All right let’s get down to our Nebraska notebooking pages

I only had four mini-books for our Nebraska state study. So, first here you go:

Deary Diary- My diary for the School Children’s Blizzard
How I brought fire to man- This was based off of a native tale explaining how beaver brought fire to man (I’m blanking on the tribe, and the book is back at the library), the kids had so much fun rewriting the story
My Arbor Day Park- I learned Nebraska was the creator of Arbor Day, we found an adorable book all about the start of Arbor Day
Mammoth Dig Site– We’ve done a couple of different versions on a dinosaur dig in my many years of blogging, I really don’t know which version I linked to with this, but their challenge was to draw what they found in our dinosaur dig

Nebraska videos

I realize you may not be able to get the same books I found, and it gets a bit price prohibitive to buy all the books for every single state or country you study.

This was more of a storyteller rendition of the same events.

Oh my goodness, I’ve actually found the same version of Beaver Steals Fire as read by a couple of teens.

I must share this with my kids now!

Now for Arbor Day.

Totally gonna admit, I find the owl’s voice a little too perky.

And finally, the Mammoth Dig Site

Kool-Aid cookies, because Kool-Aid was created in Nebraska

1 2/3 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups butter (very important I think I was short on butter and substituted coconut oil, it was not a good 1 to 1 substitute)
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups of flour
2 Kool-Aid flavor packets (I chose something red, because I like red)

I don’t have any in-process pictures because they all look the same, and it doesn’t really add anything.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add eggs.
Add salt and baking soda, then slowly add in the lour.
Mix Kool-Aid into dough. (I think if you are just doing one flavor, then you could mix the Kool-Aid into the flour to make mixing it all throughout easier)
Drop spoonfuls onto your baking sheet. Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes. I think I went more towards 12 minutes.

My cookies spread a lot. I’m pretty sure it was because I substituted coconut oil for butter. But they tasted good.

Oh, and very important, don’t use a plastic bowl because the Kool-Aid will stain.

And that’s our Nebraska unit study. Nice and straight forward. We’re reading about Denmark right now and my kids are having a blast teasing me about one of the stories and saying, “It’s almost as bad as the ‘Quit, quit’ from Beaver steals fire.”

Sigh, I can’t win.