Education
Online Teaching Resources
HOW TO MEASURE A HORSE
The height of a horse in measured in units of hands. The legend is that a king wanted to know how tall his favorite horse was. He didn’t have anything to measure with so used the width of his hand, with fingers together and horizontal to the ground. Of course, the problem with this type of measuring is that people’s hands are not all the same width. Today, the “hand” used to measure a horse has been standardized at 4 inches. Click to print information.
"I'M A TEXAN" MUSEUM
Bibliography
Helen Bryant Fixin’ to be a Texan
Wallace O. Chariton This Dog’ll Really Hunt
Robyn Cole Born Again Texan
Sophia Dembling The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas
Wells Teague Calling Texas Home
Brainstorm
“What is a Texan?”
Web search using Ask Jeeves “What it means to be a Texan”
Questions
1. What is special about being a Texan? What is Texan about you?
2. Although we have a diverse population, are there some common characteristics of being a Texan?
3. Thinking about some of the Texans we have studied so far this year, what are historically some of the characteristics of being a Texan? Click to print infomation.
How Does a Horse See?
Horses have eyes that are located on the sides of their heads. This means that they can see almost all the way around them. This is very important to animals, such as horses, that are preyed upon by other animals in the wild. Horses need to be aware of possible dangers in their surroundings. Click to print infomation.
CALF ROPING RELAY
• Divide your class into three relay teams of equal numbers
• Mark a starting line ten yards from three stools or classroom chairs that have been lined up so that the distance from the line to each stool is the same
• Have teams line up behind the starting line in relay formation
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