Monday, October 5, 2009

Natural Regions of Texas/Las regiones naturales de Texas

Last Friday we made salt maps showing the natural regions of Texas. It took about an hour to finish, and we all had a lot of fun. First, students drew the natural regions on a map of Texas. Next, they filled in the regions with different colored salt mixtures. Once the maps were complete, they cut the wet maps out and glued them to a piece of sturdy card stock. The final step was to create a map key and give the map a title. If you would like to try this at home, we used the recipe below for each color of the salt mixture. The measures given make enough salt mixture for two full classes, so you will probably want to cut the recipe in half.

1 cup salt
2 cups flour
3/4 cup water
1 small tube or bottle of food coloring

Make sure you get help from an adult if you decide to try this. I hope you have as much fun as we did!

El viernes pasado hicimos mapas de "mazapán" de las regiones naturales de Texas. Nos demoramos una hora para terminarlos, y nos divertimos mucho. Para empezar, los alumnos dibujaron los límites de las regiones en un mapa en blanco de Texas. Después, llenaron cada región con un color diferente de "mazapán," una mezcla de sal, harina y agua. Una vez que terminaron los mapas, los recortaron y los pegaron a una hoja de cartulina. El paso final fue crear una clave para explicar el significado de cada color y ponerle título a los mapas. Usamos la receta abajo por si acaso te gustaría hacerlo en casa. Las medidas hacen suficiente "mazapán" de cada color para dos clases, así que a lo mejor querrás usar la mitad de las medidas dadas.

1 taza de sal
2 tazas de harina
3/4 taza de agua
1 tubo o frasco pequeño de colorante

Asegúrate de conseguir la ayuda de un adulto si decides intentar esto. ¡Espero que lo disfrutes tanto como nosotros lo hicimos!


28 comments:

  1. My favorite map is Ice Princess's becouse she made a good job making those little colord dots. I liked mine too. My favorite region is the Montañas y Cuencas becouse it has lots of mountains.

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  2. Dear Mr.Butler

    My favorite was Super Girl I like how she makad , I like whent a did the color tink I field so soft. My favorite rigen was the central plaints the color was in my picture was red. And I also like my. Then whent I taked home it was sparcoling.
    Sincerely, Ice princess

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  3. I like the project that we did the Texas map. All of them were butiful I like them. My favorit region was Central Plains. I like the Central Plains because it is wer we live and because it prety.

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  4. ME gusto el de Ice Princees porque esta plano y brilloso. Tambien me gusto porque, me gusta como escribe y porque lo decoro de bolitas. Mi favorito fue las llanuras Centrales porque ese color estaba brilloso y no muy pegostioso.

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  5. I like all the Texas salt maps, but my favrote was Corvette's Texas salt map, but all wear butiful. My favrote region is the Central Plains. I like the Central Plains because it is very pretty and I also like because wey live in it.

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  6. When we did this activity it was fun because we were touching the stuf it felt like playdough. The one I like the best was the one of the Black Joker. Because the Black Joker it was perfect. And thats my opinion.

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  7. A mi me gusto el de Black Joker. por que aplasto
    y lo corto con cuidado. Me gusto el de Montañas y
    Cuencas por que tiene montañas.

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  8. My favorite map was the one that Corvette maded and its nice. My favorite region was the Central Plains because we live in it and its the best.

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  9. I like Fernanda's becouse it was so pretty how she do it and my favorite is the montanas y cuencas . becas it has montañas looks cool from the top and I can look around.

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  10. I like Corvet becouse I like how he did it very good. I like how he makes it strate and white paper does make it pop out. It looks good becouse he din'nt got out of the line. And my vote is montanas y cuencas becous it's cool. And it looks cool from the top.

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  11. Mi opinion es que era muy divertido aser un mapa de Texas. Nosotros inventamos la plastelina y luego pegamos la plastelina al mapa de Texas. Mi favorita region fue Montañas
    y cuencas porque tenia muchas montañas y tenian cuencas. Mi favorito mapa fue Corvete.

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  12. I liked the salt map activity because I got my hands all gooey. My Favorite regon is Moutain and Basins because its all deserty.

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  13. I relly laked doing the salt maps.It was relly fun and it helps you study to. My favorite region was the Mountins and Baisons. you can doit at home evry time you want with an adult and you are going to remmember them .thaths a way to studie it.

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  14. I thought that the salt was going to be sticky and gooey. That day the stickiest salt was the red because when I touched'et and I had to go wash my hands. I like the Central Plains because it's the central of Texas.

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  15. Hola ami me encanto lo que isimos en clases por que me dejaron llebar lo a casa i colgarlo si yo deseaba. Mi region favorita fue LAS GRANDES LLANURAS por que es la mas cercana a Mexico siempre paso por hay cuando de viaje.

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  16. Mi opinion es que me encanto aser este prollecto porque usamos la plastilina y el color que mas me gusto fue el rojo porque estaba pegajosa. Mi region faborita es las Llanuras Costera porque alla esta San Antonio y me encanta cundo bamos a San Antonio luego porque estan todas las siudades importantes porque ai mucha agua y rios y lluebe mucho.

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  17. Asiendo el prollecto era divertido pero tanbien muy susio pero todavia era dibertido. Mi region favorita son las LLanuras Centrales porque es donde bivimos.

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  18. A mi si me gusto jugar con la plastelina. mi favorita region SON LAS MONTANAS y Cuencas. Porque me gustan las montanas grandes.

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  19. I like doing the salt maps because it was fun and we got creative. My favorite Texas region is Mountains and Basins because it had alot of Mountains and I would love to go visit that place one day.

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  20. What I tought about the Texas map was so so cool because it was salty and squishy. It was so fun and all of us need to thank Mr.Butler because he gave us something fun thank you Mr.Butler. My favorite Texas region is the Mountains and Basings because it's fun to go there and it looks cool.

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  21. Cuando lo seti en mis manos setia como si fuera como plstilina pero no era y esta bien suave. Y a mi me gusto las Grandes LLnuras por que lo tenias que pegarlo en un papel.

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  22. a mi me encanto en clase trabajar en un mapa de rejiones con cosas raras y ala mejor yo no supe como se llamaba era como plastilina con sal no recuerdo como se llama y lo ma que me gusto fue las llanuras costeras esa fue mi rejion faborita de todas las de mas.

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  23. The regions activity was so fun because we did it
    with goo colors and the colors were yellow, blue,
    green, and red. My favorite region is the
    Mountains and Basins because it has wonderful
    sites that I really want to visit in the Mountains and Basins. I really like Mountains and
    Basins because it has big mountains and things that I study in social studies.

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  24. I engoy the maps that we did with the goo. I learn more then I thot I was going to learn. My favorite region is Mountains and Basins. That is my favorite place because I love the rocks.

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  25. Me gusto mucho lo que hicimos con el mapa de Texas. Todos eran bonitos me gusta como lo hisieron. Mi parte favorito es Montañas y Cuencas. Porque tiene muchas montañas y se parece como resvaladias. Me gustaria hacerlo de nuevo.

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  26. I like doing the regions withe the salt mixter.
    I like tuchIng the salt mixter because it was stike and guie.I liked the activaty withe the regions It was fun. My favorite reigion was Mountains and Basins I like that region because It haves Mountains and Basins. Because I like looking at the Mountians how tall they are in the books.

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  27. mi opinion es que tdos pero los que mas me gustan son los que estan adordados con muchos color porque me gustan los colores. Mi favorita rejion es la llanuras centrales porque es muy colorido.

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  28. I like doing reigons becuse we get to get the salt in putet in the paper so everywon had so much fun with the goo so we all ways waned to do that. My favorte region is Mountans nd Basies becuse the Mountains are so tall nd pointe nd the baises are really depe so that way I like doing the Mountains so wen we do the praogekt im going to rite it again.

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