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In 1804, Lewis and Clark explored
present day South Dakota’s
Missouri River.
In 1861, the Dakota Territory was
formed which included present day
South Dakota, North Dakota, and
parts of Wyoming and Montana.
In 1879, Laura Ingalls Wilder and her
family settled in De Smet.
South Dakota gained statehood on
November 2, 1889, and was the 40 th
state to join the Union.
In 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum
began work on Mount Rushmore
National Memorial. He intended to
carve the four presidents to their
waists but he died in 1941 before
the work was finished.
In 1948, the first blast took place on
the Crazy Horse mountain carving
in the Black Hills. The memorial is a
tribute to Native Americans.
South Dakota has 67 counties.
South Dakota is the 16th largest state
in size. South Dakota encompasses
77,123 square miles, averaging 10
people per square mile.
Oahe Dam, near Pierre, is the secondlargest rolled-earth dam in the world.
South Dakota has the highest point
in the United States east of the
Rocky Mountains (Harney Peak in
the Black Hills; elevation 7,242 feet)
and more miles of shoreline than the
state of Florida.
State Capital: Pierre
State Song: Hail South Dakota
State Animal: Coyote
State Motto: Under God, the
people rule
State Bird: Chinese Ring-necked
Pheasant
State Insect: Honey Bee
State Fish: Walleye
State Slogan: Great Faces. Great Places.
State Flower: Pasque
State Soil: Houdek
State Fossil: Triceratops
State Mineral: Rose Quartz
State Dessert: Kuchen
State Jewelry: Black Hills Gold
State Sport: Rodeo
State Nickname: The Mount Rushmore
State
State Tree: Black Hills Spruce
SCRAMBLED CITIES
CROSSWORD
1. Sioux Falls, 2. Rapid City, 3. Aberdeen,
4. Huron, 5. Pierre, 6. Watertown,
7. Brookings, 8. Vermillion, 9. Mitchell,
10. Chamberlain, 11. Yankton, 12. Miller
Down: 1. triceratops, 2. Hail South Dakota,
3. houdek, 4. rodeo, 5. Under God, the
People Rule, 6. Mount Rushmore State,
7. Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant,
8. Honey Bee
Across: 9. Kuchen, 10. Black Hills Gold,
11. Pierre, 12. Harney Peak, 13. Rose
Quartz, 14. Walleye, 15. Coyote, 16. Great
Faces. Great Places., 17. Pasque
BRAIN TEASERS
1. sandbox, 2. I understand, 3. long
underwear, 4. downtown, 5. history
repeats itself, 6. glance backwards,
7. forgive and forget, 8. read between
the lines, 9. crossroads, 10. tricyle
NAME THAT TOWN
1. Buffalo, 2. Faith, 3. Sioux Falls,
4. Watertown, 5. Martin, 6. Beresford,
7. Rowena, 8. Mission, 9. Hot Springs,
10. Gregory, 11. Gettysburg, 12. Timber
Lake, 13. Plankinton, 14. Bonesteel,
15. Lead, 16. Huron, 17. Stickney,
18. Oldham, 19. Scenic, 20. Britton,
21. White River, 22. Freeman, 23. Clark,
24. Wall, 25. Yankton, 26. Bison,
27. Springfield, 28. Tea, 29. Webster,
30. Lemmon, 31. Winner, 32. Florence,
33. Eureka, 34. Blunt, 35. Crooks,
36. Arlington, 37. Salem, 38. Tripp,
39. Redfield, 40.Spearfish, 41. Deadwood,
42. Pierre, 43. Madison, 44. Lyons,
45. Sisseton, 46. Doland, 47. Rapid City,
48. Howard, 49. Parker, 50. Armour
MATCHING GAME
Corn Palace - Mitchell, Petrified Wood
Park - Lemmon, Mount Rushmore National
Memorial - Keystone, McCrory Gardens Brookings, B-1 Bomber - Ellsworth, Oahe
Dam - Pierre, Great Plains Zoo - Sioux
Falls, Dinosaur Park - Rapid City, Laura
Ingalls Wilder - De Smet, Prairie Village
- Madison, Shrine to Music Museum Vermillion, Mammoth Site - Hot Springs,
Lake Kampeska - Watertown, Storybook
Land - Aberdeen
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Corn palace
Vermillion
Petrified wood Park
Sioux Falls
mount Rushmore National Memorial
De Smet
M cCrory Gardens
Brookings
B-1 Bomber
mitchell
Oahe Dam
lemmon
Great Plains Zoo
watertown
Dinosaur Park
Hot Springs
Laura Ingalls Wilder
rapid city
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keystone
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Mammoth Site
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Lake Kampeska
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Directions:
You need two players to play
the game. To start the game,
each player needs to place
their pheasants on the board
labeled “Your Field”. Refer to
the “PHEASANTS” key below,
which uses a specific number of
consecutive letters to identify
each group of pheasants on the
board. Place the pheasants either
horizontally or vertically. They must
not be placed diagonally or overlap.
After placing the pheasants on the
board, the players should take turns
calling out plot points (eg. D6).
If there is not a pheasant at that
location the other player will call
PHEASANTS:
KEY:
No Bird
Rooster X
Rooster Flushed X
Five Roosters AAAAA
Four Roosters BBBB
Three Roosters CCC
Three Roosters DDD
Two Roosters EE
Your Field
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out “NO BIRD,” and the first player
will make a “/” in the cell to indicate
a miss. If there is a pheasant at the
coordinate, then the other player
calls out “ROOSTER”. Then an
“X” would be marked in that cell
to indicate the pheasant has been
flushed out of the field.
A player must report that their field
has been flushed after all of the
pheasants in a group have been
flushed.
The first player to flush all five groups
of pheasants out of the other player’s
field wins the game!
PHEASANTS:
KEY:
No Bird
Rooster X
Rooster Flushed X
Five Roosters AAAAA
Four Roosters BBBB
Three Roosters CCC
Three Roosters DDD
Two Roosters EE
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South Dakota Towns and Cities
Aberdeen
Belle Fourche
Box Elder
Brandon
Brookings
Canton
Dell Rapids
Hot Springs
Huron
LeaD
Madison
Milbank
Mitchell
Mobridge
Pierre
Rapid City
RedField
Sioux Falls
Sisseton
Spearfish
sturgis
vermillion
watertown
winner
yankton
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3. State Soil
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5. State Motto
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page and fill in the blanks with the words from this page.
age _____________________________________
friend’s name _____________________________________
another friend’s name _____________________________________
adjective _____________________________________
plural noun _____________________________________
emotion ending in –ly _____________________________________
verb ending in –ing _____________________________________
body part _____________________________________
verb ending in –ing _____________________________________
one friend’s name _____________________________________
verb ending in –ing _____________________________________
verb ending in –ed _____________________________________
favorite food _____________________________________
body part _____________________________________
favorite color _____________________________________
type of transportation _____________________________________
adjective _____________________________________
number _____________________________________
body part _____________________________________
emotion ending in –ed _____________________________________
your favorite expression _____________________________________
verb ending in –ed _____________________________________
plural noun _____________________________________
adjective _____________________________________
Read the story, filling in the blanks with the words from the
previous page.
For my ________________ birthday, my best friends
________________ and ________________ decided to take me on
a ________________ vacation to South Dakota. There are many
awesome ________________ in South Dakota, but my friends kept
Talking ________________ about ________________ “The Faces.” As
we continued to drive, I kept a/an ________________ out for
“The Faces.”
Before long I realized the car was stopping. I began to
wonder why but then saw buffalo ________________ in the
middle of the road! I asked my friend if those were the
faces we came to see. ________________ said, “No, but keep
________________.”
After the buffalo ________________, we began winding our
way through the Black Hills National Forest. Feeling
slightly car sick from eating too many ________________, I
glanced at the mirror to see that my ________________ was
a shade of ________________. I quickly got over that when
I was startled by honking coming from the ________________
in front of us. I looked up to see us driving through a
________________ tunnel.
At the end of the tunnel, I saw ________________ President’s
________________ carved into the side of a mountain. I
was so ________________ to be at Mount Rushmore I yelled
“___________________________!” We got out of the car, I
________________ my friends, took ________________ and, thanked
them for such a ________________ trip to South Dakota!