Introduction
You will be creating a poster about a famous place in the United States to encourage people to travel to see it! Find interesting facts about your assigned place to create a travel brochure.
Process
The Statue of Liberty
https://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/statue_of_liberty.php
Video:
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/monuments/statue-of-liberty/
Grand Canyon
https://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-the-grand-canyon/
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/nature/grand-canyon/
The Everglades
https://www.kidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/everglades-for-kids/
https://www.campliveoakfl.com/7-interesting-facts-florida-everglades-kids/
The Willis Tower
https://theskydeck.com/for-kids/fun-facts/
https://kids.kiddle.co/Willis_Tower
Mount Rushmore
- At first, Borglum chose a mountain known as ‘Six Grandfathers’ for the sculpture to be carved.
- The height of every president’s face is approximately 60 feet long.
- A remarkable fact about this mountain is that no one died during the project considering the dangers.
- The eyes of every president are 11 feet wide, their mouths are 18 feet wide and noses are 20 feet long.
- About 400 workers worked to complete this memorial.
- Gutzon Borglum was 60 years old when he started carving this memorial and he died in March 1941 leaving the completion of this work to his son Lincoln Borglum.
- The actual plan was to carve entire bodies down to their waist but due to a lack of funds, the monument was declared completed in 1941.
- Every night, this monument gets illuminated for two hours.
- Dynamites, jackhammers, hand drills were used for carving the rock of Mount Rushmore. More than 450,000 tons of rock was removed overall to give it a perfect replication.
- On average three million visitors visit here every year.
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Facts you didn’t know: –
- This mountain was named after a New York attorney Charles E. Rushmore.
- The total cost of the project was one million dollars and it took about 14 years.