“This Land is Our Land”
State Float Rubric
Name: ______
State: ______Due Date: January 31, 2013
1. Gather information about your state and fill in the graphic organizer provided. You will be given time to research in school but you may need to do some research at home.
2. After you have completed your research, take an empty box (the size of a carton of copy paper) and cover it with decorative paper. Now imagine your box is about to be entered in a parade as a float that represents your state!
3. Decorate the box with the information you gathered about your state. You can use pictures, typed information, or small objects. There is no need to add wheels to the box-we won’t be rolling the floats!
Items you must have on your float:
General Information:
State name
State bird
State flower
State motto
State flag
State nickname ______20 points
Location/Region:
Outline of the state
Bordering states/countries/bodies of water
Name of the region of the United States that it is located in ______15 points
Place:
Major landforms: mountains, rivers, deserts, lakes
Climate (weather)
Resources/Industries: What is grown or made in your state? What do people do for jobs?
Recreation
Government: state capital
Population
Major cities
Major landmarks (for instance Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota) ______30 points
Movement:
Date it become a state
Native American groups from your state
Immigrant groups that settled in your state and
the countries they came from ______20 points
Finished Float:
Neat and attractive work ______15 points
______100 points
Bonus:
Human Interaction with the Environment:
Identify something in your state’s environment that people have
changed. For example: a dam, a canal, mines. ______10 points
Additional items you may have on your float:
State song
Famous people
Foods
Festivals/Celebrations
Universities
Famous buildings
Here is a photo of past floats: