Episode 86 - Why Texas Banned Cell Phones at School

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. In today's episode, we celebrate the rich history of Hispanic Heritage Month by looking at 3 traditional artifacts of this culture. Music By: Music by Francesco Biondi from PixabaySupport the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. In the early years of time, Texas was home to millions of buffalo and our early ancestors had to adapt to ways of hunting such large animals. So… they chased a herd of  bison to a steep cliff where they fell to their deaths. This cliff is named the Bonfire Shelter.ReferencesMusic/Sounds by PixabayStarting Jingle Sound Effect by Shiden Beats Music from Pixabay- Jingle Slide GuitarSupport the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. Recently, archaeologists uncovered some surprising finds beneath the Alamo’s courtyards. https://www.thealamo.org/Support the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. Texas in the early 1900s was full of bustling cities, dusty rural towns, and one very big problem: half the population couldn’t vote. That half was women. Support the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. Did you know there's a town in Texas built on top of a mountain of salt? Welcome to Grand Saline, a small town with a big secret underneath the ground—a giant salt dome that’s deeper than Mount Everest is tall!RESOURCEReferenceshttps://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/grand-saline-txhttps://www.visitcantontx.com/attractions/the-salt-palaceMusic/Sounds by PixabayStarting Jingle Sound Effect by Shiden Beats Music from Pixabay- Jingle Slide GuitarSupport the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. In the mid-1800s, the United States was growing fast. After winning the Mexican-American War in 1848, the U.S. gained a huge amount of land—territories that would later become California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. But this victory brought a big problem: Would slavery be allowed in the new territories?Support the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. This episode explores House Bill 1481, the 2025 Texas law banning cell phone use in public schools including how laws are made, why this one matters, and what it means for their daily lives. RESOURCESSupport the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. It all started in 1929 when the stock market crashed and stock prices dropped so fast and so far that millions of people lost all their savings overnight. Banks closed. Jobs vanished. And the United States entered the worst economic crisis it had ever seen.Now… add in the Dust Bowl—and things in Texas went from bad to worse. Today you'll learn : ✅ What life was really like in Texas during the Great Depression ✅ The creative—and quirky—ways Texans survived ✅ How this tough time changed Texas foreverEPISODE RESOURCES Support the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text.  When you think of the Alamo, you might imagine brave soldiers, cannons, and the famous cry:"Remember the Alamo!"But did you know one of the most important people at the Alamo wasn’t a soldier at all — but a young woman with a baby in her arms? Her name was Susanna Dickinson, and she lived to tell the story of what happened inside those walls.Support the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. There’s oil along the Texas coast because some of it comes naturally from deep underground, and some of it comes from human error like spills from deep water oil rigs we’ve built to collect it. It’s super old, super powerful, and super important—but also super complicated.Referenceshttps://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/spindletop-oilfieldhttps://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oil-and-chemical-spills/oil-spills/resources/fingerprinting-oil.htmlhttps://youtu.be/K-li3tABQzk?si=IVlrITRSvuG__T3jhttps://youtu.be/vbl7QeqfE-Q?si=Pt7NbacFrwz9bUVMMusic/Sounds by PixabayStarting Jingle Sound Effect by Shiden Beats Music from Pixabay- Jingle Slide GuitarSupport the show 🎉 Y’all, it’s freebie time! Snag your Texas Flag Reading Packet—perfect for grades 4–7! Plus, join the email list for more Texas-sized learning fun each week. 👉 SEND MY FREEBIE!