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Preview of The Story of Texas

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Dear Super Second Graders,

Use the links below to get a preview of our field trip tomorrow. Remember to use your reading strategies as you go!

1. Who is the Bob Bullock Museum named after?
http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/about/bob-bullock

2. What do you expect to learn about on the first floor of the museum? The second floor? The third floor?
http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/exhibits/overview

3. What do you think these objects might be? Who might've used them? When?
Make a prediction, then be ready to find them tomorrow!


4. What do you think the object on the left could be? Why? How do you know?



5. Watch the preview of our IMAX movie, Flight of the Butterflies. What do you expect to learn from the movie?
http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/flight-of-the-butterflies


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