West Virginia History and Literature About the State

What better way to integrate literature into the classroom than by teaching the students about their state.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Educational/Kids_Page/kids.html is a great website with all kinds of interesting facts and information about West Virginia. This would be great to use with 4th graders when they are already learning about West Virginia History. This website provides the following: fun facts about the state, famous people and athletes that are from W.V., state symbols, the state seal, trivia about the state, and even information on how the state's legislature works. This can be used in many different ways in the classroom. The thing that I would do is have the students look over the website and then write a few paragraphs about what they learned and what makes West Virginia unique. This could also be presented in a PowerPoint. The goal of the website is to give children information about the state of West Virginia and to present it in a fun and interesting manner.