ACCORDIAN BOOK
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks/accordionbook.htm
KID PIX 3 PATTERN WRITING
“Kid Pix 3 is one of the best software programs available to allow computer users to produce
projects and presentations of all kinds. Its versatility and ease of use makes it one of the most
valuable tools for teachers and students. Pattern writing using books is an excellent project for
students of all ages. The pattern from Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Polar
Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? was used along with George Rodrigue's Blue Dog to
create the Blue Dog Book.” http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks.html
DESIGN ONLINE FLIP BOOK ABOUT NORTHEAST WYOMING AND THE VBJ
See Iowa’s Archaeology on the Road for ideas. http://iowaarchaeology.org/node/38
FOLDING MINI BOOK USING ONE SHEET OF PAPER – STAPLELESS POOF BOOK
Check out Vicki Blackwell’s site. Use the template to type in your book and print it out!
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks/poofbook.htm
Or use any size of paper: sections of bulletin board paper or gift wrap and follow the directions
to fold one piece of paper into an 8 page book. Then, draw, label, and write about what you
noticed at the Vore Buffalo Jump.
Students may also use an online template to create their stapleless book at:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/stapleless/index.html Type & Print
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpS5OolhMqw
http://pictureengine.net/?p=7960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qi9ZcQVto
http://www.sallt.org/training_options/PDFs/booklet_folding_instructions.pdf
http://www.laurenstringer.com/uploads/2/5/6/4/25641572/make_a_sixpage_book_out_of_one_sheet_of_paper.pdf
Challenge: Turkish Map fold
http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/?page_id=2083
DESIGN A POSTER ABOUT THE VORE BUFFALO JUMP: NO TEMPLATE
Design a poster about the Vore Buffalo Jump to be added to the Vore Buffalo Jump webpage
and or Facebook. What details do you want to include? Why? What do you want people to
know about the Vore Buffalo Jump? You may draw illustrations with captions. What is the title
of your poster? What headings are you going to write?
SHAPE BOOKS
Download free clip art to select your own or use these: bison, tipi, bison skull, gray scale
photocopy of the VBJ bone bed or other shape of your choice.
Realistic bison. See file of sample shape book below. Enlarge to make a copy or make 2 to
4 mini-books per page.
https://openclipart.org/detail/7468/buffalo
Outline buffalo: See sample of partially completed outline buffalo below.
https://openclipart.org/detail/195976/bucking-bison-outline
 Use your imagination to create interesting designs within the buffalo shape
 See Sue Coccia’s art techniques for inspiration www.earthartinternational.com
Hints for Shape Books:
 Print in letter size setting or make 2 to 4 mini – books per page.
 Staple lined paper between cover and blank back cover
Options for Shape Books
 Make a bison shape book by stapling on the left or top with lined paper in between.
Then cut around the shape of the buffalo. Allow about one half inch margin around the
buffalo.
 Use other shapes such as a tipi. An undecorated tipi picture will give the students more
ownership.
 Here are the results for ‘tipi’ using google’s free clip art:
https://www.google.com/search?q=free+clip+art+tipi&biw=1920&bih=955&tbm=isch&imgil=CM49EiKEr_O6M%253A%253Bo8WlaIAch58ALM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fblogtired.co.uk%25252Fphotographcyf
l%25252Fteepee-clip-art&source=iu&pf=m&fir=CM49EiKEr_O6M%253A%252Co8WlaIAch58ALM%252C_&usg=__qudxJ_hhiXUGKVWahmcylOPzTvQ%3D&ved=0CEMQyjdqF
QoTCI_lhYfg3cYCFdMtiAodKtIFiw&ei=UqSmVY_0NNPboASqpJfYCA#imgrc=CM49EiKEr_O6M%3A&usg=__qudxJ_hhiXUGKVWahmcylOPzTvQ%3D
 Go here for free decorated tipi choices and select large download for an 8 x 10.5 inch
paper.
https://openclipart.org/detail/218844/tipi
https://openclipart.org/detail/193599/tipi-teepee
https://openclipart.org/detail/12920/cartoon-tipi-tent-with-red-flag
https://openclipart.org/detail/65485/teepee
DESIGN YOUR OWN STATIONERY
The sky is the limit on this one! Here’s one to modify.
CREATE A TV OR RADIO AD ABOUT THE VORE BUFFALO JUMP
Live from the Vore Buffalo Jump… this is (your name) reporting for KVOR……
Use your professional reading voice to read the radio/tv ad or script alerting local people and
tourists about the many features of the Vore Buffalo Jump. What would you like to tell
everyone about the buffalo jump? What is there to see? What is there to do? What are the
call letters for your radio/tv station?
Wouldn’t it be fun if a nearby radio station and/or tv station came to the Vore Buffalo Jump to
record/film as you pretend to be an announcer Live from the Vore Buffalo Jump?
DESIGN A COLORING PAGE OR COLORING BOOK
Design a coloring page of a buffalo, tipi, the sinkhole, or other feature of the Vore Buffalo Jump
to share with your classmates. What could you draw that they might enjoy coloring? A copy
of each of your classmates’ coloring page could be photocopied-- with permission -- and
stapled into a coloring book to take home. How about creating you own title page, publishing
company complete with town, state and copyright year. Make up an ISBN code and scanning
code for the back cover. What blurb can you write to add to the back page to encourage
readers to explore your class’ coloring book? Who will you draw on the author’s page?
What biographical information will you include about the authors? Have fun!
PLANT DECODER
What plants did you notice at the Vore Buffalo Jump? Share what you saw with your group
and teacher and add the plant name to the chart paper for all to see. Your teacher will
have sample plants in plastic bags taped to plant name on the chart. Draw and label each
plant in your Plant Decoder book to take with you. What other locations have these same
plants? Add the locations to your Other Locations page. What do you notice about the
plants that live at the Vore Buffalo Jump? Write what you notice about these plants on the
What I Noticed page. Share your book with your classmates and your family.
Plant Decoder Book: fold any size of paper into fourths the Hot Dog Way -- the long way –
horizontally
PROJECT BUDBURST: PHENOLOGY – THE TIMING OF WHAT PLANTS LOOK LIKE
DURING PHASES TO DETERMINE CLIMATE CHANGE
Learn how to observe a plant by going to a webpage sponsored by the National Ecological
Observatory Network (NEON) Citizen Service and the National Science Foundation at
http://budburst.org/two-ways-to-observe Report what you observe either once a year or year
round. Go here for report forms: http://budburst.org/reportforms View video (3 minutes 17
seconds) at: http://www.neoninc.org/content/project-budburst
Your school or organization can become a Project Budburst Partner using a garden, park,
schoolyard, museum, state park or wherever you find plants of interest - including a vacation!
http://budburst.org/partners Project BudBurst will “work with you to develop customized
resources that feature 10 plants of interest. You, your visitors, staff and volunteers can
report phenological observations. By contributing observations, you will be able to observe
how plants are responding (or not responding) to changing environments. You will find
information for how to become a partner on each of the Partner program landing pages.”
Use BudBurst Buddies http://budburstbuddies.org/ A “companion program to Project
BudBurst, uses story to introduce science concepts and the process of observation and data
collection to students. Students allow the explorations of the story characters, Lily and Sage, to
learn that plants respond to changing seasons and that like Lily and Sage, they too can
undertake their own plant investigation.” Free story, journal pages, coloring pages, word
search and a matching game are available.
Or who wants to select the Vore Buffalo Jump as a Project Budburst Partner featuring 10
plants from the site? Give 10 plants a voice through YOU!
MAKE A HERBARIUM FOR THE VORE BUFFALO JUMP FOR YOURSELF, A CLASS
PROJECT OR A SCOUT PROJECT
Check out the Sept. 2015 e-Bugler an electronic blast from Fort Laramie Historical
Association. Back issues are here: http://www.fortlaramie.org/ebugler.html
When the next e-Bugler is online, the Sept. 2015 issue will be listed as a back issue on the
above site. Meanwhile, here is a paste in of some of the details. Sign up for the e-bugler for
FREE here: http://www.fortlaramie.org/ebugler.html
“A herbarium is a collection of preserved plants that are stored, cataloged, and arranged systematically for study
by professionals and amateurs from many walks of life. Assembling a herbarium into a scrapbook was a very popular
pastime in the mid-1800s.
Clyde Collis' herbarium book with specimens, descriptions, and classifications,
1912. http://www.lloydlibrary.org/archives/inventories/clyde%20collis.html
In 1845, a young, fifteen-year-old, soon-to-be-famous poet, Emily Dickinson, wrote a letter to her dear friend Abiah
Root and inquired: “Have you made an herbarium yet? I hope you will if you have not, it would be such a treasure to
you; most all the girls are making one. If you do, perhaps I can make some additions to it from flowers growing
around here.”
Dickinson pressed over 400 specimens into a leather-bound album, arranging her specimens artistically, labeling sixtyfive of the four hundred with the genus and species according to the Linnaean system of classification. Dickinson's
herbarium is available to view online through the Harvard University Library here.
Elizabeth Burt, 1862
The Fort Laramie National Historic Site museum collection has the herbarium of Elizabeth Burt. Elizabeth was the wife
of Major Andrew Burt who was stationed at Fort Laramie in 1874 and again in 1887. Elizabeth kept extensive diaries
from which she later wrote her life story. This was made into the book, "Indians, Infants and Infantry -- Andrew and
Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier" by Merrill J. Mattes.
Andrew loved collecting fossils, birds' eggs, curios, minerals and plants. Often he would bring Elizabeth flowers on his
return from a battle or wilderness expedition. These flowers ended up in Elizabeth's herbarium.”
Also see: Digital Imaging of Plant Specimens for Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Larry Schmidt – PI
http://www.cfc.umt.edu/cesu/Reports/NPS/UWY/2012/12Schmidt_FOLA_plant%20imaging_fnlrpt.pdf
Northern Great Plains Herbaria
http://ngpherbaria.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=186
Rocky Mountain Region Digital Herbarium:
https://www-lib.uwyo.edu/digitalherbaria/index.php
ETHNOBOTONY- THE STUDY OF HOW PEOPLE USE NATIVE PLANTS
“Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of
indigenous (native) plants. Since their earliest origins, humans have depended on plants for
their primary needs and existence. Plants provide food, medicine,
shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to
the air we breathe. Many native peoples also used plants in ceremonial or spiritual rituals.
Examining human life on earth requires understanding the role of plants in historical and
current day cultures.”
What evidence is there of the plants that existed at various levels at the Vore Buffalo Jump?
How were plants used at the Vore Buffalo Jump? How could you use the information about
ethnobotany provided by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to education your
family, your classmates, and the community? Explore! Make a plan! Gather facts! Educate!
Have fun!
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/index.shtml
WILDFLOWERS JUST FOR KIDS FROM THE USDA FOREST SERVICE
” Hey Kids! Celebrating Wildflowers has some great information and fun things for you to do. Learn
more about wildflowers on our National Forests and Grasslands with puzzles, coloring pages, and fun
activities! Check out the links below to see what we have for you.” B. J. Bison says, “Click away and
enjoy! How can you share what you find interesting? Pssst! There are lots of ideas for teachers, too!
Spotlights
Activities
Fun things to do!
Coloring Pages
Get out your crayons and get ready to color!
Vocabulary
Find out
what some of our Celebrating Wildflowers words mean
Word Search
Enjoy our Celebrating Wildflowers word search puzzles
Teachers, we have resources for you too…
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/kids/index.shtml
CHALK THE BUFFALO JUMP
http://county10.com/2015/07/14/this-is-more-fun-than-watching-paint-dry/