On Friday we went through phase two of our Arkansas geography project. Students were asked to make a mixture of salt-dough in order to create a physical feature map of the state of Arkansas. On Thursday students created their mixture and Friday they put pen to paper…so to speak. Students took their mixture of dough and put it on to a piece of foam board that they had already traced the state of Arkansas onto.

Upon pipping their dough onto the board students then made their dough take the shape of Arkansas by making it fit their outline that they had previously drawn. Students used their fingers, rulers, pencils, and whatever else they could get their hands on to make the dough look like Arkansas with mountains and valleys. On Monday we will begin the third and final phase of our project by color coding the map.

Mr. McClung