MN Salt Map - Where is the Beargrease Trail?

After identifying MN landform features, major cities, and neighboring states and Canada, students tried to draw Minnesota free hand.  

This MN map was used to get to know the state.  I ran copies on tagboard and cut them out as patterns to trace on cardboard for salt maps.

This is an excellent map showing the elevations differences of MN.  Notice the arrowhead area and the rugged Sawtooth Mountains of the north shore of Lake Superior.

Students fill in their map with salt dough.  I made the dough the night before.  

This is a salt map of AK showing landforms.  
Once the salt dough dries, we paint around the map.

Using a colored elevation map allows students to create their own salt dough maps. 

Using water color paints to paint MN landform map is fun!

We started with our rivers...

Lower river valleys are lighter and higher elevations (MN Arrowhead) is dar

At last we label our map.

It is fun to know about the Beargrease trail and about MN.

This is when we studied AK and the Iditarod.
Compare and contrast MN and AK, the Beargrease with the Iditarod.