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May 2005

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With

Great, Great, Great, Michigan Songs CD.
Michigan -
Dynamic, Diversified, Delightful.
A great place to live, work, play and vist.
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Celebrate Michigan Week! May 21st - 27th

The L.A.P.s’™ Program and the Michigan on the Move Unit are a wonderful resource for Michigan Week activites.

Have fun!


Make a woven book of the state symbols.
CAP 18 –20 (200k pdf)

Have a Michigan travel brochure contest using MP 18.
MP 18 (32k pdf)

A blank book MP 2 makes an ideal Michigan History book for a research report on a Michigan topic.
MP 2 (50k pdf)

Plan a Michigan breakfast of all Michigan products: Kellogg cereals, Michigan cherry or apple juice, Jiffy® muffins, and various fruits from Michigan. Add to the fun with HP 1 and HP 10. Make up a menu fit for a  logging camp.

HP 1 (100k)

HP 10 (100k)

Learn more about Michigan’s government when you use CAP. 11-12 to see how a bill becomes a law.  Use CAP. 13-15 to make an Origami Capitol. Label it to show the three branches of our state’s government.

CAP 11-15 (250k)

Use A Curious Glimpse of Michigan by Kevin and Stephanie Kammeraad to play a Michigan product game.  Prizes could be Michigan products.

Use pop-up book MP 1 and an outline of Michigan for the pop-up. Write 5 facts about our state below the pop-up.

Study historical figures of Michigan using the fold and cut character pattern on Cap 9.  Michigan on the Move 71-73 has brief biographies of Michigan’s auto giants.

MOM 71 - 73 (200k pdf)

CAP 9 (50k pdf)


Michigan has an abundance of wildlife.  Make a flip-book report of one of the animals from the L.A.P.’s™ program. TF 5   They include the Red-tailed Hawk HO 4-6, Hognose snake HO 19, the Belted Kingfisher BC 7-8, Skunks BC 9-10, Turtle…Tortoise…Terrapin BC 20 or Lake Sturgeon MI 13-14.

Michigan Week is a good time to learn more about our Great Lakes and the lighthouses that surround them.  GL 48-49 and GL 50.

GL 48 - 50 (200k pdf)

Explore the various ethnic groups that immigrated to the Detroit area to work in Henry Ford’s auto factories. Create an ethnic quilt square to learn more about their country of origin. Michigan On The Move 55 – 57

MOM 55 - 57 (200k pdf)