Our Next Challenge

This week we are going to learn all about the state of Kentucky. You will probably need to use Google to find some of these answers.

1. How many state parks are in Kentucky.

2. What city is General Butler State Resort Park located in?

3. General Butler State Park has a 9 hole golf course located on the property. If you stay 4 days and play 9 holes every day, how many holes of golf will you have played by the time you left?

4. John James Audubon State Park is located in what city?

5.  General Butler State Park has a 30 acre pond, while John James Audubon State Park has a 28 acre pond. What is the total number of acres combined for both state parks?

6.  Where is Lake Cumberland State Resort Park located?

7.  Lake Cumberland has 129 campsites, while General Butler has 111 campsites. How many more campsites does General Butler need to add to equal the number of campsites and Lake Cumberland?

8.Where is Pine Mountain State Resort Park located?

9.  Where is Big Bone Lick State Park located?

10.  If you could design a state park, what city would you build your state park in?

11. What kinds of attractions would you offer at your newly created state park? What makes your state park different from the other state parks?

12. Sketch the outline of your state park and include where all of your activities would take place. Make sure to note where the trails, ponds and campsites are located.

For our younger students:
1.  Christine and Christa went to the playground at General Butler State Park. Christine went down the slide 5 times and Christa went down the slide 2 times. How many more times did Christine go down the slide than Christa?

2. How many times did Christa and Christine go down together?

3.  Kim and Samantha went to play miniature golf at Pine Mountain State Park. Kim played 6 holes of golf and Samantha played 3 holes. How many more times does Samantha need to play to catch Kim?

4. How many holes of golf did they play altogether?

5.  Katie and Shannon went fishing at Lake Cumberland State Park. They caught 10 fish on the first day. Katie caught 7 fish. How many fish did Shannon catch?

6. The next day the caught 20 fish. Shannon caught 11 fish. How many fish did Katie catch?