Texas Heritage Subject Guide
This subject guide is designed to help 4th grade students with their social studies projects and activities, although other grade levels studying state symbols may find it useful, too.
1. National Geographic Kids - Texas: An informative video introducing children to Texas and important information about the state.
You can check out all of these books (and many more similar ones) from our library!
5. The Alamo - Travel Thru History: This short video gives great information about what happened at the Battle of the Alamo.
6. Remember the Alamo: This useful infographic presents key information about the most famous battle in Texas history.
7. Texas the Lone Star State: Essential facts and figures about our state.
8. Texas State Symbols : A helpful list of state symbols from the Texas State Library & Archives Commission (did you know the state vegetable is the sweet onion?).
9. The Portal to Texas History: The University of North Texas' search engine for historical documents about Texas.
10. Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs: Southern Methodist University's digital archive of early photographs of early Texas photography (more than 4,000 images!).