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The Adventures of Mo – Smart Fun
Can your kids find their home state on a US map?
You may find this surprising, but many can’t! The Adventures of Mo is a free and engaging online resource for early readers that promotes US geography & history to help kids gain a better understanding of their world and the world around them.
The resource includes:
- A children’s adventure eBook (by the same name) that takes kids on adventures to all 50 US states. The eBook can be played as a game.
- Blog posts about every US state featuring historical events, key information, and funny state facts. Use the blogs for extra credit.
- State trivia questions. A good source for geography bees.
- Teacher-parent guides for the eBook. Valuable tools to help promote insightful conversations about the world we live in.
- Three blog series: America’s Firsts, All About Animals, and Our Wild and Wonderful World. More interesting content for both kids and adults.
- Videos for kids, by kids: Kids share facts about a state’s land, history, or people. A fun class project! Avatars can be used to disguise student faces.
School, group, or Zoom guided imagery presentations by the author are also available. Each presentation is $99. First one is free. One free presentation per group/school.
Why is learning geography important?
Geography is much more than learning about the location of cities, states or countries. It’s about understanding people, places and cultures, landscapes and environments, our civic rights and responsibilities, and how they all connect to shape our world.
Kids can become responsible global citizens, better protect the planet, and improve their personal welfare when they understand the world around them.
The Adventures of Mo eBook
At the heart of this resource is a free online children’s book about a dog named Mo who lives in Alaska and finds a key attached to a keychain that says Florida on it.
BUT, where is Florida?
Mo and a bird friend named Finchy travel on top of a delivery truck–without the driver’s knowledge–to every state in the country searching for the Sunshine State, so they can return the key to its rightful owner.
What unique adventures do they experience in each state? What does the key unlock? Do they ever find Florida? Read this free children’s book to find out!
How can early readers benefit from this geography resource or just the free children’s book? They will:
- Be exposed to cardinal/compass directions.
- Learn about US/state geography.
- Read about state history along with fun, strange and even weird facts about each state’s land, history, culture or people.
- Be able to identify interpersonal situations that they experience in their daily lives and then apply the lessons they’ve learned in the real world.
This geography resource is unique, fun and relevant.
- You can create and play a game! For example, when reading the eBook, guess what state Mo and Finchy are visiting based on clues in each chapter.
- You can track Mo’s and Finchy’s journey across the country. Where will their travels take them? What state will host their next adventure?
- The characters are lovable! The situations they often find themselves in will truly make you laugh out loud.
Recent Blog Post
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Firsts in Space
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Big Blue
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Food
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Lewis and Clark
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What People Google About US States
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All About Florida: Launch Pads, Gators, and Beaches
This is the state that Mo and Finchy have been searching for throughout The Adventures of Mo eBook. Do they ever find Florida? Do they ever find the owner of the lost key? What does the key unlock? You’ll have to read our story to find out! Now, back to…
All About Georgia: Home of Aquatic Animals and Hogzilla
All About Georgia: Home of Aquatic Animals and Hogzilla As the largest state east of the Mississippi River, there are many things that make Georgia special. For example, it grows more peanuts than anywhere else in this country. In 1836, it was home to Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College),…
All About Alabama: Birthplace of the Confederacy & Civil Rights Movement
If you like anything and everything that’s outer space, you may want to learn more about Alabama. The first rocket to put humans on the moon in 1969 (Apollo 11) was built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Ever hear of space camp where kids train like astronauts for six…
All About Mississippi: Land of the Blues, Sandhill Cranes & Father of Waters
Have you or has anyone in your family ever owned a stuffed animal, specifically a teddy bear? The bear’s name and history is linked to Mississippi and Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. Back in 1902, President Roosevelt, who was nicknamed Teddy, went on a hunting trip…
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